health care reform

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/11/01/elizabeth-warren-releases-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all.html Quote box added.

Strange news from the New York Times: dogs and cats living together? Red Sox and Yankees fans being civil to one another? No, even weirder: A bipartisan compromise? A permanent fix for the so-called "doc fix"? Of course, nothing is ever quite so simple though. Thanks Harry Reid! Why do you...

They are trying to shutdown the government so they can try and get rid of a program that will get me health insurance for the first time in a decade. So why should I not be beyond angry with them? Anyone want to talk me off the ledge here about why I shouldn't care they are trying to stop me...

To all those seeking the defunding of the Affordable Care Act and threatening to shut down the government at great detriment to the economy, society, and millions of Americans, What's your plan? What would you like healthcare in America to look like? The ACA means real change and opportunity...

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us (link is to the "printable" version) It's not a light-weight article: at nearly 25,000 words, it gives a detailed reckoning of the endemic problems in the US health care system as it's currently constituted: large bills for routine care and...

Medicare Has Controlled Costs Better Than Private Insurance Medicare Has Lower Administrative Costs Than Private Plans. So-called “competition” in the private health care market has driven costs up. Medicare Is Publicly Accountable, Private Plans Are Not...

Bug bites ten year old boy; total bill is $23,800 Short version: After a bug bite got infected, the kid ended up with MRSA. It was treated, but the bill is $23,800. The blogger's insurance, still covered by COBRA after his company relocated from California to Texas, is paying about 95% of the...

I'll admit that in many ways choosing political party affiliation is not easy. There are such banal bloviating blunderous blowhards on both sides that it can be hard to slog through the political spin machine mud. Then I realize only one party actually wants me dead. That makes things so much...

I posted this in another thread and someone there suggested I repost it with the inclusion of a poll. Sounded good to me, so here it is. Oral arguments concluded yesterday and the matter is now in the hands of the court. I am very interested to know what people here think is the most likely...

On MSNBC this morning two Senators said that their constituents indicate they believe they will have to endure slightly longer lines in hospitals and other medical facilities if the currently uninsured 40 million Americans are given coverage through subsidized policies. And because of that they...

I'm seeing TV adverts saying Obamacare will kill jobs. It doesn't say how though. Does anyone know? Does anyone in Washington have a counter proposal yet for health care reform or is everyone still sticking their fingers in their ears and pretending there isn't a problem? By the way totally...

Think of the costs illness and injury bring to our society. Ambulances, EMTs, nurses, doctors, lifeflights, clinics, hospitals and all those drugs. Now think of our present debt problems within the government. What if, instead of treating the injured and the sick we merely transported them to...

Linky... So with her not actually owning a business to be harmed, she can't really claim to be a victim of the onerous law that was threatening to ruin her business. But the best part of the article? Isn't that precious? She spends her days gardening while taking money from the Evil...

We'll start with the cons, because the only items I can think of are: 1. A perceived increase in taxation to pay for it. Of course, if you don't have to pay for expensive private medical insurance or your employer doesn't have to pay it on your behalf and can pass that money on to you as a...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-08/obama-s-health-care-law-requiring-insurance-upheld-by-appeals-court-panel.html I'm sure Fox "News" will be all over this.

So a national news poll got a hold of me tonight to ask my opinions on health care. :cool: "If a Republican Congress repealed healthcare reform what two words would you use to describe it?" Disgusted. Betrayed. "Do you think congress should focus on providing healthcare to all citizens or on...

Having read through a number of "libertarian" threads around here, I'm puzzled at the horror an vehemence some posters exhibit towards "socialised", i.e. tax-financed and/or state-managed health care. Working in a prime example of a health care system that's not only tax financed but also under...

I ask this in earnest as I have such a large personal stake in the matter. Maybe some of you do too. I know that's why most of my threads in this subforum have been about it. As you all know no private health insurance company would ever cover me. From my current point of view the only way I...

Lay it out here. Why should we continue to allow millions to be uninsured (people such as myself). Why should we continue to allow those that are insured to die because their private insurer found some loophole. Here is where you can give out your reasons and your alternatives.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110621/ts_yblog_thelookout/man-robs-bank-to-get-medical-care-in-jail This guy's a thief -- he stole my idea. Also, shouldn't you get to go to federal prison since this is a bank robbery? Good luck, Blue. The best part:

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?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/31/judges-ruling-health-care-lawsuit-shift-momentum-coverage-debate/ "A U.S. district judge on Monday threw out the nation's health care law, declaring it unconstitutional because it violates the Commerce Clause and surely reviving a feud among competing...

In my own case* there is no way I would be able to afford major things like an organ transplant or most cancer treatments. So if I got something that would require either I would be up a creek. I also know my parents who would probably insist on selling their houses to pay for it and I would...

GOP seizes on report on new health law Not sure what to make of that headline because this is what it says: Pesky budget office reports.

Ok. Got my plan for next year. for 2010, my insurance went down by 2% over 2009, but the deductible went up. My 2011 coverage, for the same thing as 2010, the cost increased to 110.33% of the 2010 cost. comments?

I've been without medical coverage for quite some time now. Last year, at open enrollment, we could almost, but not quite, afford to get health coverage. In the year since then, my wife's gone to a lot of trouble to arrange our finances so that this time around, we could. But just today, we...

West Hollywood, California (September 18, 2010) - Anthem Blue Cross, California’s largest health insurer, announced that it would suspend sales of new child-only policies beginning September 23. http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=5344

Hi. I saw someone post a comment on a forum where they said this: "The fact remains that we could pay for most or all of a really significant healthcare reform program (not the half-assed thing we have now, which amounts to a further entrenchment of corporate interests, a guaranteed market for...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/16/60minutes/main6872344.shtml "The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed," he tells Stahl. "It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill,"...

When did you last hear a Cabinet official tell Americans to stay out of political debates at the risk of losing their businesses? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100909/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurance_warning "won't tolerate"? Go **** yourself...