How to Take The Wind Out of the Sails of Anti HCR Lawsuits/Laws
Here is how Democrats can take the wind out of the various lawsuits against mandates to buy (under)insurance and win in 2010 and 2012, surprising everybody. We need to change the HCR from...
View ArticleThe Injustice Of Using Our Healthcare As a Bargaining Chip In Free Trade
I don't know how many folks here have seen my recent postings on the subject and then have been able to spend some time looking at the World Trade Organization issues that I have been posting about. I...
View ArticleCanada Marketing The Competitive Business Advantages Of Real Universal...
The average Canadian saves around a quarter million dollars over the average American in health care costs over their lifetime Their web site makes it crystal clear. Canada's health care system helps...
View ArticleShould foreign health insurance companies be compensated for changes in US's...
Free Trade Agreements like the GATS are designed to encourage foreign investment in countries and be "one-way roads to privatization". Literally. In other words, irreversible. GATS covers services....
View ArticleBig Worries About High Risk Pool: Six Month 'Dying Period', Huge Cost, Low...
Concerns are being raised far and wide about the validity of patching the BROKEN insurance model using a $2.90 a year/person Band Aid. The high risk pool approach - (which was also the model for the...
View ArticleHealthcare Crises in Massachusetts and Tennessee- Dysfunction only the tip of...
As most of us know by now, healthcare in Massachusetts is currently in a state of crisis as legislators, frustrated with their inability to control private insurance premiums are involved in a standoff...
View ArticleNew High Risk Pool's Preconditions Will Exclude Most Of Those Who Need It
During a televised speech last year, President Obama announced, to much fanfare, that, if we only passed the bill, he implied, all people who currently who could not currently buy insurance "because of...
View ArticleCars, drivers, and percentage who can afford to drive falling in the USA now
While reading about something else, I stumbled across this troubling fact. The number of young Americans who learn how to drive in high school or college, and who get drivers licenses is falling for...
View ArticleNew Study shows COSTS make even 'insured' delay care in Heart Attacks,...
Another study came out yesterday that adds to the already huge pile of evidence that shows that our charging fees to the sick to deter them from seeking care, results in far worse, more expensive...
View ArticleArticle: Same Group(s?) That Wrote RomneyCare Now (Pretend?) to Oppose it!
I just stumbled across this interesting article about the roots of Obama's healthcare bill in Massachusetts, and I think it brings up quite a few interesting points.Logic, one would think, would...
View ArticleSingle Payer means A QUARTER OF A MILLION MORE DOLLARS in YOUR pocket! Or MORE!
An average western European or Canadian spends $3500 a year, and people live to around 75, thats $262,000 over their lifetime. They ALL get decent healthcare.EACH typical American lives a few years...
View ArticleThe MANY Questions About About High Risk Pool's Task Include "What Happens...
According to Medicare economists the Federal high risk pool's 5 billion dollars will run out quickly, they estimate they will last the fund into 2011.Because They Lose A Lot of Money, Making Them The...
View ArticleIs it time for a 100% tax on estates, trusts, NO more taxes on the LIVING,...
We could THEN ELIMINATE TAXES ON THE LIVING too!The social contract would be renewed and we would see real stability, and a far greater incentive to save. Both young people and adults would get the...
View Article200,000 Paying As Much As Double Individual Rates Will Not Be Allowed Into...
Over 200,000 Americans who are currently paying as much as double normal indivividual rates, as much as $2000 or more a month, in some states, will not be allowed to switch from the state high risk...
View ArticleRepublicans claiming Obama's offered to put HCR on table in pursuit of $$$...
The media doesn't seem to be covering this 'reverse Robin Hood' much, but evidently, the last year's HCR talks may have been a complete waste of time, if the expensive parts of the bill (read: the...
View ArticleHigh Risk Pool Cost Comparison Chart
This (below) is a chart that tries to explain the new and old high risk pools, vs. single payer healthcare for all.There are already 37 states with high risk pols but only 200,000 people use them...
View ArticlePaying Doctors More To Discourage Patients From Seeking Care is NOT A Smart Idea
Are we headed towards a world in which each test, each procedure, and who knows, perhaps even each prescription, comes right out of the doctors pay or bonus?If so, there is a BIG problem! The "logic"...
View Article"Right to Purchase" market value individual insurance: A Fake Victory based...
How is waiting four years for a vague health care "right to purchase" like working weekends and nights for years for potentially worthless stock options?During the 90s, some of you older Daily Kos'ers...
View ArticleThe Chronic Stress / Obesity Connection And Single Payer
We've all been told, again and again, about the damaging effects being overweight has on one's health. But how many of us realize that the gaining of weight around people's middles 'is not a cause, its...
View ArticleCorporate Persons and the Double Taxation Double Standard
As I understand it corporations are people, with all the Constitutional rights of people, except for the facts that they cannot "die" or be put in jail. However, they do not have to pay double taxes on...
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