Health Insurers: “We Will Raise Rates, Regardless”

On the Eve of the final committee vote on Health Care Reform in the Senate Finance Committee, the Health Insurance lobby (AHIP – America’s Health Insurance Plans) has released a propaganda-esque ‘report’ in conjunction with PriceWaterHouseCoopers. In an attempt to sway the vote, the report states that Insurance Companies will dramatically raise their [...]

The Widening Health Care Chasm

I’m posting these just to present some startling facts about the current state of Health Care in America. I’m not going to say anything else, the statistics and disparities really do speak for themselves. I really am hoping against hope that we can all somehow work together to fix our country.

Buy Private Insurance or GO TO JAIL?!?

In the true spirit of the increasingly corrupt Baucus Bill, today the Senate Finance Committee debated an amendment that would have imposed CRIMINAL PENALTIES on those choosing not to buy private health insurance under the new mandate system. This outrageous proposition, put forth by a Republican Senator, comes one day after the Finance [...]

YOU LIE!!! – Joint Session Drama

Okay, the media won’t SHUT UP about this, so I felt I needed to blog, which I guess contributes to the amount of coverage this gets. Damn.

Anyone else think Nancy Pelosi looked totally pissed shocked and appalled?
In case you don’t know, last night at Obama’s speech to the joint session of [...]

Obama Sells Out On Public Option

more about “Countdown:Public option fight“, posted with vodpod
It’s time to get ANGRY, people. Based on statements by White House staff, President Obama is no longer necessarily going to fight to keep the Public Option, protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, a national health care exchange, or small business tax credits for health insurance. It [...]

Protesting Health Care Reform…

There has been a lot of speculation recently about those individuals who have been vocally protesting Health Care Reform in town-hall meetings nationwide. The right typically depicts these protesters as a grassroots movement based in the ideals of a free society. The left typically depicts the protesters as puppets of corporate America and the special [...]

The Compromise that Satisfies no one?

The issue is presented to the public as complex and divisive, with differing opinions on the various nuances threatening to undermine the whole process. I am of course speaking of healthcare reform. Odds are, five years from now you won’t have the same coverage you have (or don’t have) now. Congress, under pressure from President Obama, is [...]