health care

A fake healthcare website intended to prevent people from getting health insurance. This is just.....I'm at a loss for words. Brghht, chemildrak troovan sor doulimak muuuustttt HUUURRTT! http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/california-assembly-gop-astroturfs :boggled::eye-poppi...

Its easy to find data online that supports the opposite argument -- that we don't have nearly as good care, per capita, per cost, as other nations, etc. It hits you smack in the face as soon as you look for it. However I keep hearing conservatives spout the following excuses, and I was...

Kent Hovind has been incarcerated since late 2006 on tax charges and threatening government officials, but that hasn't stopped him from spreading conspiracy theories. Now that Hovind is in prison for following the advice of conspiracy theories and uncredentialed people (like non-lawyer Glen...

EMTALA? HIPAA? These are just fancy acronyms at some American hospitals. These hospitals have put debt collectors in the emergency room, and they are indistinguishable from medical staff. NYT Except that when you get a call from a collection boiler room, you can threaten them with an FDCPA...

I'm going to lose money for any for profit insurance company. So really only some sort of universal plan would allow me to be covered. And there are lots of other people just like me out there. So under what conditions would you allow that to happen?

Because I was thinking the thread "Health care - administrative incompetence" is the wrong place for the discussion on whether slavery was justified but taxation is theft. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194778 I suggest that the discussion about whether...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/47124 I thought some of the rule changes they made were good. They got rid of the commemorative bills (National Tunafish Sandwich Day), which I thought was a waste of precious time. But I guess the new rules don't apply when they are inconvenient to the GOP.

We have a growing problem in America. It probably affects other cultures as well. I call it "the death lottery". Here's how it works. Here in America, our government sponsored old age pension and health care systems aren't very generous. In order to live comfortably, with basic necessities...

It has been suggested many times on this forum that a free market will solve certain problems in the US health care / health insurance system, but without much specificity behind the proposals. So here in this thread, I invite the free market proponents to flesh it out. In your proposed free...

A couple of article in the Guardian raise the question: WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting 'mythical' healthcare system Michael Moore counters: WikiLeaks cables: Michael Moore film Sicko was 'not banned' in Cuba Finally, regardless of whether it was banned in Cuba or not, does it...

I received this video from a family member. W1-eBz8hyoE I really don't understand how she gets slavery from people doing their jobs? Hospitals are built to render health care to the sick. That is their purpose! They aren't working for free (unless they are students or interns) and they sure...

I'm new here and because this seems like it might be a place open to discussing the body's natural ability to eliminate disease causing pathogens without any help from modern technology, gimmicks or gadgets I thought I would kick it around some here. It is my opinion Keven Trudeau has paved the...

This morning I got a package through the post with 'NHS' on the top. Alarmed, I ripped it open, and was pleasently surprised to see that it was a free chlamydia testing kit: I presume every other person under 25 in the borough, if not the city got this pack, regardless of income. All I had...

http://gothamist.com/2010/03/23/wannabe_ny_gov_compares_health_care.php he says yesterday's bill signing will go down in history as a day just like 9-11, and the new law will kill more people than 9-11. Sir, whomever you are, go **** yourself. Sincerely, Parky76.

Hey, JREF Conservatives/Libertarians!! This thread is devoted to all of your anger and frustration with the health-care reform bill. Tell us why you hate it, why you wanna burn it, why you hate Obama, why you hate Pelosi, how you think they are the scum of the Earth. This thread..is for you...

France has it, so does Great Britain, and many other sovereign European countries. Before Sunday, Mass had a state plan. The European share a common currency the Euro. We have the Dollar. Why don't the European Nations have a United Universal Health Plan? Why wasn't the Mass. plan allowed...

Why do i have the impression that most US citizens are less outraged about Military spending than about Healthcare spending? The war's have been sold to you as necessary, and i think the majority agrees on that. Those war's are thought to save US Citizens lives. But when it comes to saving...

Hi JREFers, its been a long time since I've posted, but I've been lurking. I haven't been following the healthcare "debate" as much as a should so I've come to JREF in search of answers. There are many knowledgeable people here and I regard this forum as one of the best on the web for true...

Considering the dire predictions the conservatives have been predicting if Health Care comes to pass, why is the stock market essentially just giving a yawn? Shouldn't the market be reacting to this socialist assault on the capitalist system?

From 1994 to 2006, the Republicans controlled the Congress. And from 2001 to 2006, the Republicans controlled Congress AND the White House. In those 12 years of semi-control and 6 years of total control, what did the GOP do to reform health-care in the USA? Did they pass a law allowing...

Place your predictions here. We can revisit these posts in 2015 to see if they come true.

An interesting view: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/article_25ab8584-277d-5fb4-b27c-78d7c5cfa8bb.html A misguided article or a wise prediction?

OK, I have held long standing views on health care in America for a while now, and after listening to This American Life’s two-part special on health care from back in October, it threw a lot of my firmly held beliefs in doubt. I used to think that health insurance companies and drug companies...

"Why should I have to pay for someone else's healthcare? Pay for your own damned healthcare". this is the line I heard, on ABC News last night from a protester last night in DC, that seems to sum up the whole issue for me. the GOPers who don't want health care simply don't want their own...

I heard a rumor that Obama is going to tax vital medical equipment to obtain the funds he needs to balance and maintain his new medical policy. (This info bugger is sketchy as hell so it's being put in the conspiracy theory section. I'm looking for info on debunk/confirm this info.)

I just saw this: Full article (with video): Link Two stories today related to this: Full article: Link Full article: Link

A pair of sources (interpreting same video from C-Span). From the right: http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NThiYjA3ODNiN2MwOTJkMTFjYzQ1MjJmYjcyMmIwNGQ= and from the left...

Hadn't seen this article posted anywhere. This topic has been discussed in great detail in a few threads, so I figured this would be fodder for some good discussion. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/22tier.html Here is a link to the paper itself (it is also linked in the article)...

In another thread I came across the argument that universal healthcare provided a moral hazard by insulating the citizenry from the consequences of poor lifestyle choices (I think). I don't really see it but felt it is an interesting economic question on its own. My view is that it doesn't...

Gutfeld:"U.K. Doesn't Let People Die In The Street,It Lets Them Die in The Hospital" Russell Brand at the MTV Awards spoke of the difference between Britain and the US: "Instead of truck, we say lorry, instead of elevator we say lift, and instead of letting people die in the street we have...