HSA's make problem worse by skimming healthy & wealthy
Health Savings Accounts are the for-profit Insurance industry's favorite fake solution to the health insurance problem in the U.S., and of course are therefor the favorite of thte Repugs. As the study...
View ArticleMA "universal" health? Uh, nope.
A long time ago, when Massachusetts had a Republican governor....ok, just trying to put it behind me.....Some of you will remember last year when there was a major news blitz about Massachusetts...
View ArticleWhy does Business Week hate America?
Today, just in time for the release of Michael Moore's spectacular documentary film, SiCKO, Business Week greets us with this headline:Despite spending lots more per capita on health care, the U.S. is...
View ArticleGod help you when your COBRA health insurance runs out
On July 4th--Independence Day, remember there is no liberty when you are mired in debt, worried about rising mortgage payments, and unable to secure affordable healthcare. Remind yourselves that...
View ArticlePA-09 Shuster leaves 3 million children behind
I submitted the following guest editorial/letter to the editor to many newspapers throughout the 9th CD of PA last Friday. Some may say that the media window on this story may have passed, but I...
View ArticleDamaged Care 2008: Blue Cross Blue Shield Gets Ready to Game Universal...
Any day now, the nations’ health insurance companies expect to have a huge influx of new clients. None of the three remaining candidates has the cojones to buck the insurance lobby and embrace single...
View ArticleFundamental Political Reality Has Changed
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]From the very beginning it’s been obvious that the overall strategy of the Clinton and Obama campaigns has been non-confrontational; critical, of course, but not in a...
View ArticleUNDERinsured: Have Health Insurance & Still Screwed (Health Care Thursday)
Sure we have all heard about the uninsured, the 46+ million and growing... but hey "I have insurance" you say, "so I am okay."Or maybe not!The American Cancer Society has been collecting stories of...
View ArticleResponse to mcjoan on FISA
I agree with mcjoan that this wasn't the best compromise Democrats could get. At the same time, the FISA compromise wasn't worth a quixiotic fight, either. At the end of the day, below the fold is...
View ArticleThe upside to the AIG bailout.
When he becomes President, if Barack Obama decides that the way forward on Universal Health Care is to move forward on a Universal Health Insurance scheme, just as New York City and the French do, then...
View ArticleUncivilized Medicine - Maya's Six Year Old Cleft Palate
Health care in the United States is a cruel place to have a serious health issue and few resources. This is what happened to a little girl during George Bush's Administration and what will continue to...
View ArticleDoes Universal Health Care Require a "Time to Die" Rule?
As a medical resident in a busy hospital, I learned the terrible nature of a drug called dobutamine. Injected during a cardiac "code" into someone who was dying, the drug would restore a pulse and...
View ArticleOur Healthcare, Our Conscience
Our Conscience, Our HealthcareI have multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the plasma cells in my blood. More and more, researchers are discovering ways to manage it as a chronic disease with drugs...
View ArticleKos Is Wrong; Lieberman Never Supported the Public Option
I write this diary as an actuary and a former federal employee.The Daily Kos is a fact-based community. We need to get our facts correct. As leader of the progressive blogs, kos has a moral...
View ArticleBeware "The Crippler"... or suffer the consequences.
People like me already have health insurance. It may not be the greatest, but it beats the hell out of nothing and is better than most. We use it. I can honestly say it has saved the lives of my...
View ArticleLack of Universal Health Insurance is a Sin
There. I've said it. I'm sure that I'm going to get blasted for this one. (unfriend) Okay, hold on...let me put on my hard hat and prepare to receive my beating from all of my conservative friends.Call...
View ArticleNow What?
Short and sweet. President Obama is abandoning his requirement for a public option.As a healthcare provider who daily sees the havoc that private insurance companies can visit upon unfortunate...
View ArticleMe and Superman
Organizing for America Deputy Director Jeremy Byrd sent out an interesting email a few hours ago. I assume this went to anybody who has volunteered with the Obama campaign or attended any OFA rallies...
View ArticleThe Bloodletting of Private Insurance
43% of individuals without healthcare will die at a much earlier age then those with healthcare. And that is the nicest thing about private health insurance. Our current healthcare system of...
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