Dr David Himmelstein

Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. David Himmelstein, Turning Language on Its Head, Karen Ignani, Public Option, Government Bureaucracy, Bizarro World, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform, For-Profit Insurances, Government Takeover, Single Payer Health Care, Ahip, Frank Luntz, Spinning the Issue, Physicians for a National Health Program, Savings With National Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Best Medical Practices, Keeping the Insurance You Have, Transparency, Creeping Socialism, Cbo Report, Politics News
Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

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For-Profit Health Insurance Is Responsible for Large Cost-Shift to Consumers/Taxpayers

Michele Swenson | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Minimum Benefit Insurance, Health Care Cost-Shift, Dr. David Himmelstein, Massachusetts Health Care Reform, Uninsured, Catastrophic Coverage, Underinsurance, Politics News
Michele Swenson

False assumptions that drive the current U.S. health care reform debate are often expressed as common buzzwords: Choice, Competition, Government Bureaucracy.

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