I've been busy . . . We Are Unstoppable #OWS
Some holiday cheer.I've been busy running around New York with The Sign.That's me in the light green jacket.We're going to be taking The Sign all around the city, during the holiday season. If you...
View ArticleExtremely sick Americans overwhelming federal high risk insurance pools
Those Americans who have been denied insurance simply because they need it--because they are sick, are finally accessing care through the federal high risk pools created by the Affordable Care Act....
View ArticleA grieving mother places blame on our government for critically ill and...
Carol Anne Keltner posted on California One Care's Wall."My daughter is in ICU at this moment with no insurance (4th time with pneumonia in 1 1/2 years). She has a small chance of surviving and none of...
View ArticleAt long last, Death Panel identified, angel of death outted
There's an interesting, and I would argue, horrifying article on the front page of the New York Times today, about the historic upcoming arguments before the SCOTUS on the Affordable care Act. It's...
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Unaffordable co-pays and deductibles, death by a million cuts for insured...
If we had a functioning healthcare system, sick people would be able to access care and healthy people would not fear the financial consequences of illness.We're told by politicians from both...
View ArticleBest reporting I've seen on SCOTUS and ACA and an American pleads for healthcare
This will be a rather quick diary because both pieces I want to bring to your attention are far more eloquent than I could ever be on this, most consequential day.I simply want to say that though I...
View ArticleMaternity care out-the-window for millions of women if anti-choice SCOTUS...
I thought I knew as much as anyone about the barbaric state of the American healthcare system. Well this morning, I learned something even I didn't know.Right now in the United States of America, (87%)...
View ArticleLittle transparency in U.S. healthcare pricing: isn't a colonoscopy supposed...
There was an extraordinary diary the other day by Deep Harm on healthcare pricing.Today, the New York Times has a scathing look at how anesthesiologists bill for their services during routine...
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Things could not be any worse for those forced to buy individual health...
Remember when President Obama pledged that if you like your doctor, and if you like your insurance you can keep it? This is a link to a very brief video of him making this commitment in a weekly...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg: "sharp disagreement rate will go up next week and the week...
If you start to read the tea leaves, particularly the tea leaves Justice Ruth Ginsburg dropped last night, I'm thinking SCOTUS is going to eviscerate if not destroy outright the ACA.“It is likely that...
View ArticleSomber words from Robert Reich, Marcia Angell MD, and others on life after...
The New York Times has an important cross section of opinion about what we might expect after the SCOTUS ruling.The analysis is critical reading for everyone wondering where this storm is headed.Within...
View ArticleMore expert information/speculation on SCOTUS and the ACA
What follows is some of the more interesting stuff I've been reading over the last several hours on how the SCOTUS decision on the ACA might play out, and when we might get this historic decision.And...
View ArticleReady, really ready for a fight . . . WITH UPDATE
UPDATE:Here's an excellent article by Jonathan Chait on what to expect from SCOTUS just posted on the New York Magazine website.Are you ready for a showdown?I am.It's intolerable and unacceptable to be...
View ArticleAmericans enrolled in the ACA Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan are very,...
Bensdad made a very appropriate commentabout a pivotal reason we are facing the possible (likely?) dismantling of the Affordable Care Act.He said:Which is why the only way to ensure the survival of the...
View ArticleHealthcare economist Uwe Reinhardt handicaps SCOTUS on the ACA
I'm literally sick with worry about what we're facing next week.So what do I do? I read and read and read, hoping to find someone with something interesting or enlightening to say.No one is better...
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#singlepayer #Medicareforall - Uninsured, stage 4 cancer, and 6 months from...
My name is Jane Lang of Salem, N.H., a 64-years-young woman without health insurance and this is my story.This is a photo of Jane and the nurses who helped her. Jane was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer...
View ArticleUrgent new warnings from Wendell Potter #singlepayer #MedicareforAll
Thanks to JoeDemocrat for pointing me to this article in the Huffington Post by our friend, great American, and fellow Kossack Wendell Potter, How Obama and the Democrats Got Played by the Insurance...
View ArticleOur 'starter home' the ACA, our mansion, Medicare for All-UPDATE: AHIP...
UPDATE - The AHIP threat statement :Cost Impact of Other ACA Provisions The health care reform law includes a number of provisions that will increase the cost of health care coverage: According to a...
View ArticleMore Aurora anguish: In U.S. uninsured victims of gun violence also face...
This has got to be one of the most heartbreaking diaries I've ever written.This is an only-in-America situation, which in my opinion, has not been properly covered by the media. We've heard about Caleb...
View ArticleNew Commonwealth Fund Report: By all metrics, Medicare outperforms private...
Here's the take home message, the money quote, if you will, of this important new Commonwealth Fund study.The experiences of people covered by Medicare and those with private employer insurance can...
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