Health Insurance

Slow Medicine: How Do We Keep Personal Choice from Becoming Impersonal Policy?

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Slow Medicine, Elderly, Health Insurance, Medicare, Patient Rights, Health Care, Politics News
Karen Stabiner

As described, slow medicine sounds like a great idea, buoyed by statistics. But will doctors urge me to forgo treatment because it's best for me, or because it's best for the bottom line?

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Hillary's Fake Populist Proposals Would Pad Bottom Lines of Oil, Defense and Insurance Companies

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Hillary's actual policy proposals are more likely to pad corporate bottom lines than better the lives of those at whom she lobs her populist campaign rhetoric.

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"What Kind Of A Nation Are We?" -- Congress Must Make Access to Care a Top Priority

Rep. Steve Kagen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Cover the Uninsured Week, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Rep. Steve Kagen

I've refused to accept the health care benefits offered to me until everyone I represent has the same offer made to them.

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Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...

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No Patient Left Behind

Deane Waldman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Insurance, National Health Service, Universal Health Care, Health Care Costs, Home News
Deane Waldman

"Universal health care" doesn't mean to you what it means to them. To Presidential hopefuls and self-styled expert pundits, it means universal health ...

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The True McCain Health Plan: Wealth Transfer From Voters to Corporations

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Universal Coverage, Health Insurance, McCain Health Plan, John McCain, Populism, Health Reform, The Politico, Politics News
RJ Eskow

The McCain health plan is pro-free-market when it benefits his party's backers, and anti-free-market when necessary to provide the bill with enough political cover to be palatable.

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A Challenge To John McCain: Buy Your Own Health Insurance

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I challenge McCain to be the first to do what he is asking all Americans to do: give up his employer-based health care, and purchase his own health insurance on the open market.

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Holistic

August J. Pollak | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Health Insurance, Holistic Medicine, Health Care, Children's Health Insurance, Schip, Illegal Immigrants, Living News
August J. Pollak

2008-04-28-pollok428.jpgFocusing on what really matters in the health care debate.

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Stigma Healthcare: Shut Up Kid!

Kim Stagliano | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Health Insurance, Autism, Speech Therapy, Speech Therapy for Autism, Speech Therapy Health Insurance, Living News
Kim Stagliano

I can't understand why the value of speech therapy simply disappears when it comes to insurance.

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Hill: D.C. Dems Back Off Health Care Promises

David Sirota | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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David Sirota

Congressional Democrats are now saying that they will effectively thwart any effort to create a national health care program.

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How About If Members Of Congress Forgo Free Health Care Until The Rest of Us Get it Too?

Howie Klein | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Sam Bennett, Larry Joe Doherty, Alan Grayson, Health Care, Russ Warner, Vic Wulsin, Blue America, Politics News
Howie Klein

Even among Republicans, even among Texas Republicans, Democrats are finding opportunities where none "should" exist.

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"Universal Health Care" Is None Of The Above

Deane Waldman | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Efficiency, Healthcare System, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Politics News
Deane Waldman

No modification -- universal health care; HIPAA; Patients' Bill of Rights; caps on malpractice awards; UMRA -- can make the current system give us what we want. We need a new system.

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Fear A Layoff? Go To The Dentist, And Other Insurance Tips

MSN | Liz Pulliam Weston | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Health Coverage, Health Insurance, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, COBRA, No Insurance, Recession, Business News

Americans are dependent on their jobs for more than income. Many of us get our health, life and disability coverage through our work. So as the risk o...

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New Co-Pay System Gouges Even Insured Patients

New York Times | Gina Kolata | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

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Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of d...

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The Power of Patient Advocacy

Deborah Burger | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pacificare, Nurses, Health Care, National Nurses Organizing Committee, California Nurses Association, Health Insurance, Politics News
Deborah Burger

We're the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have a guaranteed, single-payer health care system. The freedom to go to any doctor or any hospital. It's not a dream, it's legislation.

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John McCain, Anti-American

Adam Hanft | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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Adam Hanft

John McCain believes that the federal government has no responsibility to help homeowners who were bamboozled into taking out mortgages they couldn't afford.

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Universal Health Care Doesn't Mean We're Entitled to All the Health Care in the Universe

Russ Wellen | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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Russ Wellen

Who doesn't want health insurance? A few 20-somethings too blinded by their partying to picture the illnesses they're courting? For many others, the heart is willing, but the pocketbook is weak.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 5: The Single Payer Health Care Movement and the Plans of the Democratic Presidential Nominee

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

If a Democrat is elected president, the progressive mass movement should use the opportunity to move beyond their compromised health care plans to push for Medicare For All.

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The Social Determinants of Health

Merrill Goozner | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Poverty, Race, Health Care, Inequality, Politics News
Merrill Goozner

Unless the nation grapples with what are the underlying causes of ill-health in this society, it will never get health care costs under control.

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Healthcare

Norman Cressy | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Solicitor, Healthcare, Politics News
Norman Cressy

I am a bloodsucking parasitic Insurance Solicitor that sells health insurance. In other words, I do nothing to contribute to the health of anyone, and I get paid for doing precisely that.

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The Addiction Treatment Gap

Victor Capoccia | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Insurance Coverage Rehab, Health Insurance Coverage, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse Programs, Treatment Addiction, Addiction, Health Insurance, Alcohol Addiction, Substance Abuse, Rehab, Living News
Victor Capoccia

What would Congress say of a disease for which four out of five people who seek treatment cannot get it?

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Why Being A Health Insurer Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

Cindy Handler | Posted 03.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Health Care Policy, Health Insurance, Legislation, Health Care Provider, Living News
Cindy Handler

Please bear with me, dear reader, as I share a snippet of an illustrative phone encounter I had with my family's healthcare provider the other day. I promise to keep it short.

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U.S. Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans Update: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care, 2008 Election, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

With our current sick care system, Americans cannot afford -- socially, politically, economically, or otherwise -- to remain on the sidelines.

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Progressive Solutions to America's Health-Care Crisis

Sen. Tom Daschle | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Tom Daschle

I have proposed a Federal Health Board, which could address health care problems and would resemble our current Federal Reserve Board for the banking industry.

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Is Hillary Good For Business?

BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Quadrangle Group, Goldman Sachs, Hillary Clinton Big Business, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Steve Rattner, Hillary Clinton Business Ties, Hillary Clinton, Health Insurance, John Mack, Tax Cuts, Big Oil, Business News

In the final Democratic debate of the primaries on Feb. 26, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) trumpeted the populist theme of her campaign: "The wealth...

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