Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on May 15th, 2008
Not to be snippy, but I’m actually much more interested in what Elizabeth Edwards thinks, since she’s behind my No. 1 issue - universal healthcare.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Customer Service Hell, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on May 7th, 2008
When even Republican evangelicals get it, why don’t our politicians?
This especially resonates with me today because I have to go to battle with my insurance company. I need an MRI on my ankle, which most likely has a protruding bone chip from when I sprained it in September. (It’s gotten to the point where I […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 30th, 2008
Well, it’s sort of like a health care plan. I mean, it involves health, and it’s a plan - albeit a shitty, half-assed sort of plan. But I’m sure it comes in a very nice folder!
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 22nd, 2008
This is a BIG problem, I know. If we had universal healthcare, the incentives would be to treat, not to save money:
NEW YORK, Apr 19, 2008 (The Charlotte Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — – A leading group of occupational doctors is taking the unusual step of speaking out publicly against pressure from […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 21st, 2008
I watch these incessant negative Obama ads on Clinton’s health care plan, and I just want to throw something at the TV. Bill’s right:
Clinton started the day completely focused on his wife’s policies. But by as the day wore on Clinton found himself in Waynesburg, Pa., where he couldn’t help but mention the latest round […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 20th, 2008
So what happens next? (h/t Sarah at Corrente)
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday.
The ruling strengthens the hand of at least 22 states, […]
Posted in The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Apr 19th, 2008
Now my sinuses are in a state of full-fledged infection. When I went to bed last night, my right eye was so weepy, I couldn’t read. Then I woke up not long ago with a fever of 101. I took some ibuprofen and tried to sleep face-down on a hot water bottle, but I couldn’t. […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Apr 17th, 2008
How psychiatry is medicating a nation.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 14th, 2008
Oh, come on. This isn’t about keeping premiums low. This is about keeping profit margins high, and is a perfect example of why we can’t afford a for-profit system:
Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 12th, 2008
Crunching the numbers.
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 12th, 2008
So nursing homes flush unused medication down the drain, which is of course a story. (After all, we’re polluting our water - and wasting expensive medication.)
What the reporter might have reported if they’d done a little digging is that the laws preventing the use of leftover medication don’t apply only to nursing homes. (Gee, I […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 11th, 2008
Krugman on health care horror stories.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 8th, 2008
I’m just thrilled she’s healthy enough to do this:
Not sure if this was expected or known in advance, but the announcement today that Elizabeth Edwards is joining the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow is striking in two ways. First, it’s great for CAP. Think tanks don’t often get the benefit of having […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Apr 7th, 2008
And too many uninsured women are at a loss for how to treat their breast cancer:
Hillary Clinton appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and announced her plan to find a cure for breast cancer within our lifetime. Hillary’s plan would provide $300 million a year in increased funding for breast cancer research at the […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 4th, 2008
Krugman:
Elizabeth Edwards has cancer. John McCain has had cancer in the past. Last weekend, Mrs. Edwards bluntly pointed out that neither of them would be able to get insurance under Mr. McCain’s health care plan.
It’s about time someone said that and, more generally, made the case that Mr. McCain’s approach to health care is based […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 2nd, 2008
Would that our politicians were as evolved.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 1st, 2008
Now, here’s some Social Security change I can support. What brave legislator will deal with this corporate atrocity?
The Social Security system is choking on paperwork and spending millions of dollars a year screening dubious applications for disability benefits, according to lawsuits filed by whistle-blowers.
Jessica Ortiz of San Diego said her disability insurer called more than […]
Posted in Class War, Fuck the Poor, The Best Healthcare in the World on Mar 11th, 2008
I guess he means the people who work for Congress and get that great insurance coverage the rest of us would like to have:
McCain told reporters today that “Everything’s fine…Like most Americans, I go see my doctor fairly frequently,” according to the Associated Press.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Customer Service Hell, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, The Best Healthcare in the World on Mar 6th, 2008
Health insurers are the best possible advertisement for universal health care:
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he issued new subpoenas to Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and WellPoint Inc., and other health insurers in a broadening investigation of possible fraud costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Cuomo […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, FUBAR, Just Plain Crazy, The Best Healthcare in the World on Mar 5th, 2008
This
Posted in The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Mar 4th, 2008
Years ago, people used to make fun of me for my allergies - that is, the ones who didn’t tell me it was all in my head and treat me as if I simply had a weak character. (I never believed it. I always saw myself as the canary in the coal mine.) Ironic, that […]
Posted in Fuck the Poor, The Best Healthcare in the World on Mar 3rd, 2008
I just got off the phone with a friend. The 39-year-old son of her best friend just died this weekend. “I was there when he was born,” she said. “This is awful.”
He was moving some furniture and started to get chest pains. They don’t have health insurance, so he went to bed, hoping he’d feel […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Mar 2nd, 2008
No matter who wins this election, we know one thing: without true universal health care, these people will still be left behind (h/t Wampum):
(CBS) One of the decisive issues in the presidential campaign is likely to be health insurance. Texas and Ohio vote on Tuesday, and those states alone have nearly seven million uninsured residents; […]
Posted in My So-Called Life, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Mar 2nd, 2008
Weird. I feel really light-headed, like I’m going to pass out - even when I’m sitting down.
I was thinking how bad it was for my ex-husband before he died. After he had his stem-cell transplant, he developed fever and chills that lasted six months. Even though he knew his liver was already compromised, he kept […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Feb 28th, 2008
And not universal insurance. From a poster on Democratic Underground:
This is my story. True as true can be. And it explains why I have a problem with the universal health insurance plans that are proposed.
I used to work in a casino. I dealt craps for 7 years; and I loved it. One day, I was […]
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