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How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare 2 comments

tenthltr2u wrote 2 months ago: Wendell Potter Analyst at MSNBC and the Center for Public Integrity Posted: 03/12/2012 7:26 am If I … more →

Tags: News and politics, economic disparity, Conservative Politics, huffington post, health-care reform, Supreme Court, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare

How a $1,000 test could destroy the health insurance industry - The Washington Post

Andrew wrote 2 months ago: Good article by Ezra Klein on the implications of low-cost genetic testing and how it argues for uni … more →

Tags: Cancer, lymphoma cancer, Healthcare, genetic markers, Healthcare Costs, Ezra Klein, Washington Post, Health Insurance

The End Of Private Health Insurance is Near to be Replaced by Universal Public Option Healthcare1 comment

savernation wrote 3 months ago:      Obamacare was positioned from the get-go to eliminate private healthcare companies and even sel … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Obama Watch, Abuse of Power, 2012 elections, Sebelius Watch, pharmaceutical companies, kathleen sebelius, birth control mandate

Insurance and genetics5 comments

diomavro wrote 4 months ago: Insurance has two main concepts moral hazard, an effect that is present after signing up to insuranc … more →

Tags: health, Risk, Policy, market failure, inevitable collapse, information asymmetry, moral hazard and adverse selection, human failure

Missouri's Healthcare Freedom Amendment

carknow32 wrote 4 months ago: Please support Missouri’s Proposed Health Care Freedom Amendment, “Article I, Section 35 … more →

Tags: Missouri, Healthcare, Freedom, health care freedom, freedom amendment, Public Health Care

To Sinkhole Survey, or Not to Sinkhole Survey?2 comments

I Am Janosik wrote 4 months ago: In the coming year, more and more homeowners insurance companies will be non-renewing sinkhole loss … more →

Tags: Politics, Finance and Other Absurdities, Politics, sinkhole, Insurance, Sinkhole Survey, citizens property insurance, insurance underwriters, driveway cracks, Loss Coverage

Health blog news for today - insurance changes ahead?

andrewmcd wrote 5 months ago: According to various news reports of late, it looks like there could be a competition inquiry into p … more →

Tags: health care news, Medical Insurance, HEALTH BLOG, hospitals uk, Private Hospitals

when am I a patient?15 comments

phylor wrote 7 months ago:   {disclaimer: written too late to be probably be considered for the PFAM blog carnival hosted by af … more →

Tags: musings, Rant, Blog Carnival, missed blog carnivals, PFam, angery, Survivor, PFAM blog carnival, patient as a term

The Myth of the Greedy Geezer1 comment

James Ridgeway wrote 8 months ago: The following appeared today as an opinion piece on Al Jazeera English. Old people are becoming ever … more →

Tags: financial crisis / recession, Age Discrimination, Medicare, Health Care, Obama Administration, Drug industry, poverty, budget / tax policy, Social Security

Soylent Greenbacks: David Brooks Wants Some People to Die for Debt Reduction18 comments

James Ridgeway wrote 10 months ago: To help solve the debt crisis, the best thing I can do is die. Maybe not right now, but certainly be … more →

Tags: financial crisis / recession, Age Discrimination, Medicare, Health Care, Drug industry, budget / tax policy, death / end of life care and choices, Economy, health care rationing

The American Healthcare Frog

David Adamson wrote 12 months ago: We all know the story (whether true or not, a great metaphor) that a frog thrown into a pot of boili … more →

Tags: Republicans, Tea Party, Democrats, Congress, Affordable Care Act., Obamacare, Healthcare

A Boomer's Straight Talk1 comment

James Ridgeway wrote 1 year ago: That’s a bit unfair,since Dave Lindorff (This Can’t be Happening blog) isn’t exact … more →

Tags: Medicare, Health Care, Social Security, Boomers, dave lindorff, mnedicare, Common Sense, tax the rich

The Health Care Elephant in the Room

wayneradcliffe wrote 1 year ago: We’ve been hearing a lot of blather lately about how our national budget is so stretched and o … more →

Tags: Health Care, Single Payer

The 'public option' in forefront of state's health reform debate

The GroundHog wrote 1 year ago: The debate on the public option has not gone away. The question is will we be able to come up with s … more →

Tags: Health Insurance Reform, Health Care, SUSTINET, The Public Option, postaday2011

Provisions of health care law that might be affecting you

ipafamily wrote 1 year ago: Continuing the series of Top 10 stories about business, number 8 is a question and answer session wi … more →

Tags: Health Care Reform, Smart Business

Right wing uses the debt ceiling as a political wedge and fundraising scam

ronnieandrush wrote 1 year ago: Here’s today’s GOP “Expose Obama” laugher: we shouldn’t raise the debt … more →

Tags: Debt Deficit, 14th Amendment, ann coulter, bernie sanders, Credit Rating, debt limit, default on debt, Department of Defense, Dick Armey

Forecast For Health Insurers Not So Cloudy After All

scjustice wrote 1 year ago: January 27, 2011, 11:11 am By REED ABELSON One of the major concerns about the new health care law i … more →

Tags: In The News, Affordable Care Act., health-care reform, aca, health insurers, Booz & Company, The Future of Health Insurance, Demise of Employer-Sponsored Coverage Greatly Exaggerat, Employer-Sponsored Coverage

5 reasons to repeal Obamacare

rilaly wrote 1 year ago: 1) A repeal of the bill would give Congressman and Senators an opportunity to read the bill. If noth … more →

Tags: simple truths, Politics, Health Care, Obamacare, Repeal, Five Points, Health Insurance

The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against Michael Moore1 comment

rogerhollander wrote 1 year ago: Published on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 by TruthDig.comby Amy Goodman Michael Moore, the Oscar-win … more →

Tags: Health, roger hollander, amy goodman, Health Insurance, Health Care, denis moynihan, Healthcare, Insurance Industry, Michael Moore


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