health insurance

A fake healthcare website intended to prevent people from getting health insurance. This is just.....I'm at a loss for words. Brghht, chemildrak troovan sor doulimak muuuustttt HUUURRTT! http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/california-assembly-gop-astroturfs :boggled::eye-poppi...

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us (link is to the "printable" version) It's not a light-weight article: at nearly 25,000 words, it gives a detailed reckoning of the endemic problems in the US health care system as it's currently constituted: large bills for routine care and...

Bug bites ten year old boy; total bill is $23,800 Short version: After a bug bite got infected, the kid ended up with MRSA. It was treated, but the bill is $23,800. The blogger's insurance, still covered by COBRA after his company relocated from California to Texas, is paying about 95% of the...

Perhaps someone can explain why they consider Obamacare's mandate clause to be so fundamentally different from car insurance, which everyone who drives a car must purchase by law. Is mandatory car insurance OK Constitution because it is the states and not the federal government imposing the...

http://www.journaltimes.com/sports/bucks/article_efc79902-4ebd-11e0-8c1b-001cc4c002e0.html Lucky for Mr. Hughes, he just happened to be close friends with several multi-millionaires. This is all well and good for the Greatest Health Care System in the World, YO! But in reality, in what screwed...

What are they? It doesn't seem like it makes any sense. I have allergies, severe allergies. So bad in fall and spring i can barely sleep, see, breathe, smell.. i want to rub my face off. Long story short, i switched from HMO to PPO and did an HSA to cover my huge deductible for the PPO...

OK, I have held long standing views on health care in America for a while now, and after listening to This American Life’s two-part special on health care from back in October, it threw a lot of my firmly held beliefs in doubt. I used to think that health insurance companies and drug companies...

I just read that the Baucus health insurance reform bill makes an exception to the universal insurance requirement to those who have religious objections to health insurance. That sounds like one very large loophole. Does anyone know any details? Do the other versions have this same exception?

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...

I'm not sure whether this needs to go into this area, or Politics, so I'll start here. In all the discussions of the muddle which is the American healthcare system, I don't hear anyone talking about the real problem. Quite simply, there are more people who would like to see nurses / see...

McCain proposes to end the tax break employers receive for providing health care benefits to their employees and instead give families a $5,000 tax credit ($2,500 for individuals) to buy their own health care. Obama phrases this as saying your health care benefits will be taxed by McCain for the...

There's an article in the NYT about how some people are avoiding getting checked for genetic predisposition to diseases and conditions because they don't want to lose their insurance. Some of them, however, are having the tests done privately. That strikes me as odd, except, perhaps, in this...

I can't decide if this belongs in Politics or Humor.... and I almost didn't post it because its just too easy. But, what the heck. Democrats Recruit a 12-Year-Old to Combat Bush I still think our poor prez is outmatched, but its getting closer. I particularly liked this quote: "The...

I know this is a movie, but it seemed far more suited to the politics forum than the entertainment forum, as I am certain it will turn into a political debate anyway. OK, went out and saw Sicko with my parents last night. Sold out showing and I unfortunately ended up seated in front of a person...

Current issue of the Economist The share of workers who receive health insurance from their own employer has fallen from almost 70% in the late 1970s to around 50% today. In the past five years, the proportion of firms offering medical benefits has fallen from 70% to 60%, with the steepest...