health care

POTUS Obama Revised His 47 Million To 30 Million People Who "Cannot Get HC Coverage" "The new number is based on an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, which concluded that about two-thirds of Americans without insurance are poor or near poor. "These individuals...

I just received a bill that I think may be fraudulent and wanted some advice on how to proceed. To clarify, the bill I received was for an ambulance ride that I did in fact receive, but has already been paid by my insurance. There are several reasons why I think the bill is intentional fraud...

Ok, it isn't a zing moment a'la Barney Frank...but this is a clip of Franken being questioned by a TeaBagger at the Minn. state fair. I am posting it because -- whether you agree with Franken or not -- it was a civil exchange where questions are asked, answers given and calm and rationality...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32673090#32673090 I find it interesting that when one, just ONE, lady stands up and yells a question at M. Steele, he accuses her of grandstanding just to get onto television. The irony is just too much.

I keep hearing people frothing about how UHC would take away "our freedom" and how Obama and the Democrats want UHC so that they can "restrict our freedoms", and on and on and so forth. But what freedom exactly is it that people are talking about? I've been in the workforce for 17 years and not...

So it is a common refrain that the most important thing driving health care costs is malpractice insurance rates. Now this is broadly untrue as they are a stable 1% of health care costs and are sticking to that same percentage as health care costs increase. So asside from some specific...

One of the largest criticism's leveled against the NHS has been the long waiting times for various medical appointments, from surgery to mental health. This is a legitimate criticism. For example, my sister is currently waiting until September 12th for an eye appointment, as her eye is...

What are your opinions on healthcare ? Do you think countries should have nationalised healthcare providers like Britains NHS, to support those who cannot afford private health insurance ?

A number of posters from the USA have argued vehemently against taxpayer-funded medical services in America. The concept of funding or even subsidising healthcare through taxes is described as theft, and "putting a gun to my head and taking my wallet". Posters talk about "taking the money that I...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32560146 After the Michael Steel article, the Maddow show highlights Senator Coburn's virtuous act of promising to help an uninsured woman's husband get treatment for brain injury. He says he will get his office to find help for this woman. However, right...

This thread is for the discussion on the PBS Frontline documentary Sick Around America, sequel to Sick around the World. Together they are about as long as Sicko and cover much of the same costs, but they are far more serious than Moore's entertainment flick, with a more down-to-earth approach...

As a male, I hardly ever go to the doctor. As a Scot, I don't have to pay for any health-care, yet I still don't see the GP. I'd consider myself a soft-libertarian, or libertarianish - but I can't really abandon the NHS in my head. I can't help but think that if people had to pay for they...

All I know about Israel's universal health care system I learned from Wikipedia - and according to Wiki, they seem to have a pretty good one, even if WHO's ranking of their UHC-system does not seem to be a matter of euphoria. However, I never saw one single Conservative claiming that Israel's...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul So now, Obama is considering dropping the government controlled health care plan, for a private, non-profit, member owned co-op. this would compete with the corporate HMOs and not have to answer to share-holders. no government control. no...

Obama is giving signs he is willing to abadon the public option in favor of some Insurance Coop plan. So we will get a waterdoned bill that will probably not solve the problem. A great day for the Rush Limbaughs of the world. And the Democrats once again show their basic problem: they don't have...

I ask this question because of a recent Gallup poll... Amid Debate, Obama Approval Rating on Healthcare Steady It seems that despite all the ranting at town hall meetings, there's been no real change in views on Obama's plan. I'm starting to think this town hall theater is much ado about...

2c-JEx-Kfvc Yes. Really. This is what "Fox News" is broadcasting. "We have to be aware of the possibility of recruiting Muslim doctors"! :bwall ETA: This is a couple of years old.

The Huffington Post obtained a memo showing that the Obama administration made a deal with the Pharmacuticals industry that would keep the status-quo in drug prices. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/internal-memo-confirms-bi_n_258285.html Commitment of up to $80 billion, but not more...

I was just wondering something, if Steven Hawking was an american would he have been able to be successful with all his health problems, or would be have been crushed by debt?

I've been looking at discussion of Moore's Sicko, and find almost nothing about the factual accuracy (or otherwise) of the film's content. Almost all I find is ranting about Moore personally, and about perceived deficiencies in other works of his. And a bit of criticism of certain parts of...

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877 You will see this at the top: It used to say this: Apparently, the author didn't care enough about the subject to do the tiniest amount of fact checking. Whats worse, instead of admitting he was completely wrong about how...

These people just get more bizarre. Here's an editorial from the Investors Business Daily writing about the fictitious death panel and why U.S. healthcare is so much better: Stephen Hawking? Could they have picked a worse example? What can you say to such an argument... It speaks for itself.

http://www.wellsphere.com/triathlon-article/the-cost-of-being-a-fat-american-147-billion-to-treat-obesity-in-2008-says-the-fed/754133 This is quite astonishing. More attention should be paid to this issue in the healthcare debate. Is it my responsibility to pay for my neighbor's obesity...

Can someone explain to me what Obama's health care plan actually entails? What does it propose to do? There is so much partisan statements on it from all over (from both wings) that I still have no idea what the hell it's all about. How will such a plan be passed?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_health_care;_ylt=AuoYBNyKgJcR6sueGQopBGwuQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTJuaGI3YnFvBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODA4L3VzX3BhbGluX2hlYWx0aF9jYXJlBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA3BhbGluc2F5c29iYQ-- She should learn to see her commitments through...

At a recent town hall on the health care issue, a group of right wing agitators attempted to storm their way into an already over-filled room and then started snivelling that they were assaulted. One creep appears to have torn his own shirt and scratched himself to support this claim. He was...

Here are some specifics from the Democrat Health Care Plan (at least I'm given to understand these things are what it says): In Section 1233 E & F pp 425-433 the bill establishes that Medicare pay for end-of-life counseling for senior citizens over age 65 every five years, or sooner if...

It's a lie most of the time. It sounds right using the term, rationing health care, so most people just accept that terminology is correct without thinking. But it isn't correct at all and it harms a debate when one side frames the issue falsely. If I cannot afford all the health care that is...

There are so many lies and misinformation stories currently being fed to American voters about universal healthcare systems, including the NHS in Britain (which is actually four national systems with complete reciprocity), that I thought a few examples of what actually happens in the 21st...

An Open Letter to President Obama on Health Care Reform Dear Mr. President, I am writing to you as a health care professional concerned about your proposed health care reform. Some people will accuse me of having been paid to write this letter. On the contrary, I work for a health care...