Category Archives: Health

Hope­fully good, and want to stay that way.

Post “Fake” Holiday Rant

Accor­ding to the Washing­ton Post, New Bill Would Raise Rates, Says Insu­rance Group).…
“After months of colla­bo­ra­tion on Pre­si­dent Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care sys­tem, the insu­rance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Mon­day with a report war­ning that the typi­cal family pre­mium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than pro­jec­ted.”
Well

Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watz­man, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobb­yists Part­ying and Fun­drai­sing with Con­gress this Week
For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sun­light Foun­da­tion has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Trac­ker and a Visua­li­za­tion of the Health­care Lobb­yist Com­plex
Michael Moore (on Leno last night), on his film,

What To Expect As The Insurance Companies Try to Kill Health Reform, Again

OC remin­ded me of this Bill Moyers/Wendall Powell inter­view I saw a cou­ple of weeks ago. Although OC’s inte­rest lies with the medi­cal cost ratio, and bla­ming the peo­ple who own the stock (you, maybe me), my inte­rest lies merely with brin­ging this to your atten­tion, in case you mis­sed it.
Wen­dall Powell, a

Call Me Any Anytime.

An agency of the U.S. Govern­ment Withheld Data on Risks of Dis­trac­ted Dri­ving . .
To no one’s sur­prise, our best inte­rest were not at the heart of the High Way Traf­fic and Safety Admi­nis­tra­tions deci­sion to withhold data that implied tal­king on cell pho­nes, even hands free devi­ces, while dri­ving, is killing us.