In America, $0.26 is worth more than a dying man's life.
In the United States of America, $0.26 -- just a penny and a quarter -- is worth more than your life. Or, at least that was the case for Sergio Branco:The letter listed premium amounts for family...
View ArticleObama Administration Delays Out-Of-Pocket Caps To Grant Insurance Companies...
Once again, our politicians are putting the interests of health insurance corporations -- and their mega-rich CEOs -- ahead of the American people. The New York Times reported yesterday that the Obama...
View Article'Breaking Bad' Displays Brutality of American Private Health Insurance...
Why does someone get into the business of drugs? Well, sure, in some cases it's because a person might be feeling greedy. But, in many cases, it's because an individual is excluded from the dominant...
View ArticleOutstanding EU Video Highlights Consequences Of Tax Evasion
From Mitt Romney sending his money on holiday to the Caribbean to other American one-percenters sending their money on ski trips in Switzerland, our US government -- and, correspondingly, pool of tax...
View ArticleThis is the most cogent argument for single-payer health care I've ever read.
Health care policy inspires a lot of passion and emotion -- particularly in the United States. Well, sometimes you come across an article that spares the hyperbole and is just spot on:The idea that the...
View ArticleBreitbart Writer Comes Out In Support Of #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll
ObamaCare is a great start, but we all know that it is woefully insufficient: astronomical cost-sharing (by rest-of-world standards), limited choice of doctors and hospitals, and continued dependence...
View Article@GOP Shutdown Keeps Pediatric Cancer Patients From NIH Trials
The smiling Tea Party members in DC are, like their for-profit insurance industry friends, the real death panel. A horrible shutdown anecdote that The Atlantic pulls from The Wall Street Journal:At the...
View ArticleRidiculous Florida TV Station Claims Credit Scores Affect ACA Premium Prices
Well, this is just ridiculous:Many people signing up for health care in Florida through the Affordable Care Act have been shocked when they have to give proof of their credit score before they finish...
View Article@Humana CEO @BruceDBroussard - Will you apologize? @myUHC - Will you...
Chuck Todd was sure proud of the fact that he got President Obama to apologize for some financially-secure folks losing their junk insurance policies last week -- in fact, he was so confident in his...
View ArticleMass. Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Dr. Donald Berwick Endorses Single-Payer
Dr. Donald Berwick -- Harvard-educated pediatrician, former Center for Medicare and Medicaid administrator, and now Democratic candidate for governor in Massachusetts -- has come out in favor of...
View ArticleJohn Boehner will see his insurance premiums rise...yes, that means Obamacare...
Praising the NHS while speaking in Britain, Don Berwick argued several years ago that excellent health care is by definition redistribution. And he was exactly right -- setting aside the fact that...
View ArticleWhy Can't America Have Nice Things, Too?
I will admit to being a bit of a train buff, not so much that I will spend hours standing on a cold platform taking pictures, but to the point that I enjoy a nice train ride and will go out of my way...
View ArticleNew 'Creepy Uncle Sam' Advert Says Health Care 'Not A Game', But Aetna CFO...
Unlike in the rest of the rich world (and much of the emerging world, including Brazil, Costa Rica and South Africa), health care in the United States is not primarily treated as a social good, but...
View ArticleNYC: Concierge doctors abandon sick masses, promise 'life extension' for...
Wall Street-types in Manhattan now think that doctors who accept private insurance are inadequate for their gilded bodies. Welcome to the world of concierge medicine on steroids:The health care market...
View ArticleCruelty: Insurers Block Hospital and Charity Efforts to Pay Premiums in Bid...
It's no secret that the subsidies for low-income individuals purchasing Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage in the marketplaces are too low. Well, charities -- and hospitals (fearing cuts in government...
View ArticleUniversal Free Childcare Proposed...in the United Kingdom
This, my friends, is the kind of social policy that a country gets when it has an actual center-left party:Labour is to pursue the policy of universal childcare for all pre-school children in the runup...
View Article'We could have eliminated the income tax in 2010 had we adopted the...
This article from Newsweek is worth sharing far and wide:Has it ever occurred to you to negotiate with the pilot of the plane you just boarded about her pay? Assuming the pilot was willing to take bids...
View ArticleIn Texas, Those In Medicaid Gap Are Left To Die...
The Atlantic published Wednesday a heartbreaking story documenting the victims of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's cruel refusal to expand Medicaid in his state:When Claudia, a mother of seven who lives in a...
View ArticleBlue Cross Blue Shield Warning That GOP Plan Will Lead To Single-Payer
Can I get a hearty LOL from y'all?Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s CEO Scott Serota is warning Republicans that their plan to repeal Obamacare's 'risk corridors' policy -- a program that funnels...
View ArticleNeed a transplant in Washington state? Wait 90 days, say insurers
There's nothing more scary -- and more expensive -- than needing an organ transplant. Not to worry, though, because Washington state insurers are on it! They're telling people dying of organ failure...
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