health insurance issues

My best mate wakes up at the start of this month with a sudden & tender lump having appeared on his neck overnight. Off to doctor next morning. Sent for ultrasound scan the next day. Results that day show further investigation is required. Needle biopsy a few days later, but a couple of days...

See the title. But, specifically, the thing that is so awful about it is employer provided health insurance. That is just the dumbest thing in the world. Is there any other nation where that's considered normal? People, especially conservatives, complain that they don't want government to...

The previous thread was getting slow and generating duplicates, so here is a continuation. As is usual the split point was arbitrary and participants can copy and paste from the previous thread to address points raised therein. You're kidding, right? Their goal is to reduce taxes. They are...

Seriously, I have figured it out. It took me a year in grad school, but if you want, I'll help you set up a 501(c)(3) that operates as a non-profit health care savings cooperative, for your hospital district. The model I developed for my district requires enlistees to pay a marketplace average...

Hello, all. My friend Terry and I have been working on a proposed single-payor health insurance plan. This plan is designed to cover all Americans, from cradle to grave, soup to nuts, whatever you want to call it. This is a work in progress at this point; stay tuned for future updates. We...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-obamacare-idUSKBN15005C The ACA requires you have health insurance. Remember the cries of "SOCIALISM!" Looks like Mr. Trump might be a socialist as well. Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in replacing Obamacare. "“We’re going to have insurance...

http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/15/news/economy/aetna-obamacare/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom "Providing affordable, high-quality health care options to consumers is not possible without a balanced risk pool," said Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini. " Yeah that is why you don't use frigging private...

Thanks Obama.

Ezra Klein summarizes some things:

Full text here: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s1642/text Basically it provides that anyone who has a health insurance policy can keep it as long as the insurer offers such policies. On the whole, I support the idea. Although I have a few concerns about the wording. 1. Wouldn't...

A little publicized program of the ACA, better known as Obamacare, allows people such as myself, who have been denied by health insurance companies coverage because of their existing conditions, to get health insurance. And now I have me some health insurance for the first time in a decade. :)...

Rush Limbaugh has gone on a tirade against Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, calling her a slut, a prostitute and a feminazi, and demanding that she post videos of herself having sex online. Fluke testified in favor of a mandate for insurance companies to cover contraceptive...

I ask this in earnest as I have such a large personal stake in the matter. Maybe some of you do too. I know that's why most of my threads in this subforum have been about it. As you all know no private health insurance company would ever cover me. From my current point of view the only way I...