Not even a public option here, despite from 2000 to 2007, profits at the 10 largest publicly-traded health insurance companies went up 428 percent. CEOs at these companies made an average of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insurance premiums have more than doubled—a rate three …
Old School Friday will be up later this weekend. I’m recovering from a fall I took when someone, looking suspiciously like Bill O’Reilly, shoved me down as I was on my way to listen to Steven Baldwin, my hero, at this afternoon’s Plenary session at the Value Voters Summit. I’m …
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 …
Over the last week I’ve read various essays and blog posts on Ted Kennedy. I watched HBO’S, Teddy: In His Own Words. I’ve talked to friends, and family, many having grown up in New England during the time of “the incident only mentioned in passing”, and most (though not all …
Health care bothers me. To be precise, the coverage of health care by the media bothers me, consequently I spend a lot of time online stumbling health care posts. Most of the posts are opinion pieces, but unfortunately that is all I have because there is little real health care …
