From Coalition of the Obvious, via Avedon, this useful “compare and contrast” on national health care systems. It especially means something to me because a few years back, after my unemployment ran out and I was working an hourly job, I developed pneumonia and couldn’t afford to pay for a chest x-ray. (I don’t remember [...]
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A heart attack patient denied a blood test because he apparently still owed $7 on a previous test.
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So Obama kinda sorta maybe wants a public option but hey fellas, if you don’t, that’s fine with him, too!
Can’t wait to see what the final version looks like. My prediction: 10% off coupons for co-pays of $10,000 or higher, good on alternate Thursdays!
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Poor Democrats! Nasty activists!
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9.2 Million people are already insured by a single payer system in this country.
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About wait times for surgery in a Canadian hospital. Who would have guessed, etc. Canadians are so polite. This guy kicks McConnell’s ass, then closes with:
In summary, Senator McConnell, in an effort to advance your position opposing public health care, you have maligned a very proud institution whose service to our community dates back some [...]
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Christy Hardin Smith:
For the last year or so, we’ve been dealing with a family health care crisis. Most of you know that both my in-laws were hospitalized for months last summer, only to have my mother-in-law pass away last October.
Since that time, my father-in-law moved in with us because he could not live [...]
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You’d never know the Democrats won.
Thanks, Rahm! Thanks, Obama!
UPDATE: Conrad issues a denial.
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Former CIGNA PR rep Wendell Potter is testifying before a Senate committee this afternoon. Coincidentally, my friend D. sent a link to this recent interview in the Columbia Journalism Review, and you should read the whole thing. And after you read it, you should bookmark it. Whenever you see an erroneous story about healthcare reform, [...]
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Looks like someone wants to make restitution:
The much-maligned health insurance industry is braced for another black eye today as the Senate hears testimony from a former insurance company executive.
Wendell Potter, who worked in public relations for Cigna and Humana Inc., for more than 20 years before retiring in 2008, is scheduled to testify this afternoon [...]
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When I ran this picture on Crooks & Liars the other day, a lot of readers wanted to know where you could get one of these wristbands. Here’s the story behind them.
This is a project started in 2007 by Daric Cheshire, 36, an artist/business owner in Portland, Oregon, as a response to the ongoing health [...]
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Healthy Americans against reforming healthcare:
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Yeah, I’d guess this is how it’s all going to play out no matter what we do. (I’m reminded of the phrase “straining mightily to bring forth a gnat.”) But God, I hope not:
These days, about one in three conversations I have includes the question, “What’s going to happen with health reform?” So for ease [...]
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I have to wear this weird lace-up cloth and Velcro contraption on my right foot. It has straps that I guess are supposed to act as stabilizers to replace the work of the ruptured ligament.
But I wish someone (oh, I don’t know, a doctor?) would tell me how the ligament is supposed to heal when [...]
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Lambert:
The public option is not some sort of compromise. It is not some kind of gentle glidepath to single payer, since the legislation will be designed to make the transition to single payer FAIL, as Kathleen Sibelius admits. And as the public option FAIL takes 10 years or so to play out, it will suck [...]
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And in other “news”:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are struggling to pay for healthcare in the ongoing economic recession, with a quarter saying they have had trouble in the past 12 months, according to a survey released on Monday.
Baby boomers — the generation born between 1946 and 1964 — had the most trouble and were the [...]
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Oh, those compassionate conservatives!
Read the transcript here.
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Look like they finally noticed there’s a parade, and they’re running out in front of it:
WASHINGTON – Emboldened by polls that show public backing for a government health insurance plan, Democrats are moving to make it a politically defining issue in the debate over the future of medical care.
Behind-the-scenes attempts to get a deal with [...]
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This crap from the has-been Powerline blog is what the GOPers like John Cornyn are now clinging to in their attempts to undercut the NYTimes health care reform poll:
Since Obama won the election by a 53%-46% margin, the poll obviously skews left. That is reflected in the relative proportions of Democrats and Republicans as well. [...]
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Krugman on the congressional fight for healthcare reform:
I’m not that worried about the issue of costs. Yes, the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary cost estimates for Senate plans were higher than expected, and caused considerable consternation last week. But the fundamental fact is that we can afford universal health insurance — even those high estimates were [...]
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Digby on rationing healthcare.
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Socialized medicine! Rationing! Wait times! Bureaucrats!
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we had single payer and compassionate workplace policies, and all you had to do was take care of yourself?
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Bill Maher’s fake AMA commercial:
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About Tom Daschle’s comments on health care reform. Bernie Sanders joins him:
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Health Care for America Now has started running this ads in states where we’re looking to sway votes:
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Refresh your memory. Yes, it’s the entire movie:
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Brad DeLong:
America’s long-run fiscal problems are caused by health care, and will not be appreciably made worse by this half-decade’s federal fiscal stimulus. If restructuring the health care system can bend the curve on the rise in overall (and hence public as well as private) health care costs, then America has ample debt capacity to [...]
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