Citizens will pay a visit today to WellPoint's Indianapolis headquarters to protest the giant insurance company's abusive practices and its opposition to real health care reform.
A Working Health Insurance Exchange Must be Federally-Run, Not State-Run
• Exchanges organize the health insurance market, creating large risk pools, making it less costly and easier to compare and choose health insurance. more »
news.newamericamedia.org — More than 34 percent of Latinos are without health insurance. AARP studies indicate that less than half of employed Latinos aged 50 to 69 receive health benefits from their employers.
We're headed into the end game for health care reform. The president has put himself in the arena. The insurance lobby is unleashing the scare campaign. A strong bill will pass the House. But at this point, too many senators are still standing in the way.
Third Way, an organization of so-called centrist Democrats, is promoting what it calls a "hybrid" proposal for a health insurance public plan option that it says progressives should be able to support. No, we shouldn't. It's an unacceptable attempt by people too wedded to the status quo to protect the tail ends of the health insurance industry. more »
Is Medicare the right model for a public health insurance option, or is the Veteran's Administration hospital system better? Both sides of that argument make good points. But before we wade into the details that will be hashed out in the coming weeks, don't lose sight of the goal of the public health insurance option.
Recently, some policy experts have called for a “compromise” approach on universal health care that would involve state-based public plans designed to mimic state self-insured health plans or a government contract with one or more private insurers to administer claims. Neither approach would achieve the cost savings nor delivery system changes that a truly national public plan could.
A new novel, "2044," starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem is Big Brother Inc., not Big Brother. The government didn’t take over. It got taken over. 2044 follows the pattern to the endpoint.
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Is Medicare the right model for a public health insurance option, or is the Veteran's Administration hospital system better? Both sides of that argument make good points. But before we wade into the details that will be hashed out in the coming weeks, don't lose sight of the goal of the public health insurance option.
