Healthcare
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Where to eat, not eat
Posted by Greg Laden on November 13, 2012 Several restaurants are laying off employees, needlessly, as a form of passive aggressive snit in objection to Obamacare. They don’t want to have to give their employees health insurance. I think some of these companies are also known for having opposed Obama in the election, which is their right (corporations are people too, after all!)…
Romney on Pre-Existing Conditions
Posted by Greg Laden on September 9, 2012 Romney would replace Obamacare with a law that would require insurers to do what they were already doing before Obamacare, but makes it sound better than it is: The key phrase here is “continuously insured.” As pointed out by Jonathan Cohn via Think Progress: the federal government already forbids insurers from denying coverage to the…
Turns out, Obama totally stole the idea of Obamacare!
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2012 … the hazzards of sickness … should be provided for through insurance. This should be [charged to] the industries the employer, the employee, and perhaps the people at large … Wherever such standards are not met by given establishments, by given industries, are unprovided for by a legislature, or are balked by unenlightened courts, the…
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Policy = Wider Rich/Poor Gap in Health
Posted by Greg Laden on August 27, 2010 The question is being asked, Will Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Widen Health Inequalities? in a Policy Forum essay in the OpenAccess Journal PLoS Medicine.
Cost of Modern Medicine, Insurance Reform, and Death in the Paleolithic
Posted by Greg Laden on April 19, 2010 Are you going to be finishing all of that mastodon meat?
Moveon.org’s 10 Things Every American Should Know About Health Care Reform
Posted by Greg Laden on March 22, 2010 People are complaining that the health care bill that is currently on the verge of being law is flawed. Well, duh. People who actually claim that this bill should not become law because it is flawed come in two flavors: 1) Those who are simply against all health care reform and are just blowing this…
Let’s Get this Done
Posted by Greg Laden on March 22, 2010 The current health care bill, which we DO need to pass (Stop whinging that is not perfect. Neither are you. We let you pass.) has two more steps to go through. Reconciliation and signing by the President. Barack will take care of that second part, but we need to pressure congress to take care of…
Preparing for the Great Health Insurance Reform Debate of 2009
Posted by Greg Laden on November 11, 2009 Of particular interest is a move within the AMA to rescind that organization’s support of reform with a public option… What’s up with that?
Prayer as medicine to be included in Health Care Reform
Posted by Greg Laden on November 3, 2009 The current health care reform bill(s) do not address actual health care … like what procedures to use and stuff … as much as they address insurance. This is a health insurance reform bill, not a health care system reform bill. (Though there is necessarily overlap.) Nonetheless Republican Wingnuts want a provision regarding prayer as…
The Public Option … OMG … Holy crap. From now on we’re doing it this way, no kidding…
Posted by Greg Laden on October 26, 2009 You must watch this. You. Simply. Must. Watch. This.