Uninsured Slow To Enroll In New High-Risk Pools Don’t tell me they couldn’t have predicted this. Particularly since it cost more than some of these people take home in a week. Looking forward, with no significant regulation of the cost of the plans, or the cost of the care, it …
Red Red Wine in The Midnight Hour
This isn’t a pleasant thing to read after drinking a liter of an almost sweet red wine. A wine the wine-seller convinced us was meant to taste good with chocolate. The Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) amendment to the House health bill, which would bar federal funding for most abortions, has passed …
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 …
Mad As Hell Doctors Want the Breaks Applied
Nothing but the best rhetoric will do. I see a President and Congress unwilling to risk political ire (or anger of those with vested interest in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries), and do what the right thing for this country by getting rid of the free market health insurance …
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 …
Interesting Incidentals
I’m distracted by the fact that my windshield was cracked earlier this evening during a hail storm. Consequently I’m not much for writing original content this evening. Instead I’m reading things like a friend’s medical bill from an immediate medical care center. The bill from the immediate care center is …
