Tag: insurance
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May 14, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Quote of the Day: "If Obama scews up health care where will the Canadians go?" -- sign seen at a protest event
Subject: NEW CAMPAIGN! The dirty secret about expensive health insurance . . .
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May 23, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
Blue Double Cross
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: May 21, 2009
That didn’t take long. Less than two weeks have passed since much of the medical-industrial complex made a big show of working . . .
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June 08, 2009 12:17 PM EDT --
LISTEN UP, BUSTER
We, the people, are sick and tired of hearing that "single payer is off the table" in the same breath with "health care reform." Attempting to "repair" a broken-down old vehicle . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:10 AM EDT --
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: June 10, 2009
Perhaps you’ve seen those television commercials denouncing health care reform as a plot to create a Canadian-style . . .
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June 26, 2009 09:02 PM EDT --
Do we need to continue to funnel over 1/3 of our incomes into the corporate pockets of health insurance executives in order to maintain one of the worst national health care systems in the world? . . .
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August 27, 2009 01:08 PM EDT --
Two can play the game, and Senator Mr. J. S. McCain got more than an earfull at his recent Arizona Town Hall meeting! I mean he got an ear full from many who attended this healthcare meeting! LOL! . . .
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September 18, 2009 12:44 AM EDT --
The Insurance Industry's Heartless Logic: Getting Beaten by Your Husband Is an Excuse to Deny Coverage
By Ryan Grim , Huffington Post .
In eight states and the District of Columbia, . . .
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October 04, 2009 02:57 PM EDT --
UPDATED: Teabaggers smear Seeger, plan to hijack media coverage **Sunday Oct 4 at 4:30pm a host of musicians including folk legends Pete Seeger and Tom Chapin will be performing along the bank of the . . .
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October 13, 2009 11:57 PM EDT --
Rather than using fines to muscle more citizens into the arms of private insurers, the Democrats might finally rebel against the lobbyists and make sure that a strong public health-insurance option is . . .
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December 19, 2009 05:03 PM EST --
Corporate Greed Vs American's Health
By Cesar Chelala
An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that, even using a conservative . . .
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June 04, 2009 02:41 PM EDT --
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Medical bills are involved in more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies , an increase of 50 percent in just six years, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. . . .
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July 27, 2009 02:37 PM EDT --
Even people with health insurance often must pay out-of-pocket. The high bills you see cover not only you doctor's services, but 29 percent of the total bill goes to administrative costs, eight percent . . .
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June 15, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
Robert Reich: The Healthcare War is Now Official
The last president to successfully take on the giant health care lobbies was LBJ. He got Medicare and Medicaid enacted because he weighed into the . . .
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June 21, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
You may think you have medical "insurance", but wait until you need it for something major.
The current state of healthcare insurance in America is an abomination; a total mess; a disgrace. . . .
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June 23, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
All the talk about a new government program (public option) distracts from the impending threat of the proposed individual health insurance mandate. On Nov. 19, 2008, America's Health Insurance Plans . . .
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June 25, 2009 04:06 PM EDT --
Read these articles. You might think very differently about the public option.
" Health Care Showdown ," by Paul Krugman , Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist:
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August 22, 2009 12:36 PM EDT --
Levi Johnston's mom, another victim of the screwed up American health-care system.
By steve warren
Sherry's Going To Jail
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September 06, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
PacifiCare's Denials 40%, Cigna’s 33% in First Half of 2009
More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:40 PM EDT --
Instead of fixing healthcare, Congress is proposing to put the fix on the poor taxpayer by fining him/her for not taking out healthcare. That's like fining someone for being the victim of a crime. . . .
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September 12, 2009 07:04 PM EDT --
Insurance Companies: By the Numbers By Todd Gitlin - September 11, 2009, 9:33AM
A major reason why a sensible health system has been throttled for decades: insurance companies, which thrive best when . . .
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