Two points here
1. Dylan has to slow it down when he's asking the question about ending the insurance anti-trust exemption. If people haven't been watching him they aren't gonna know what he's talking about. Joseph Cao totally missed it. [...]
Two points here
1. Dylan has to slow it down when he's asking the question about ending the insurance anti-trust exemption. If people haven't been watching him they aren't gonna know what he's talking about. Joseph Cao totally missed it. [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 13.
1. Jane Hamsher writes about a Goldman Sachs evaluation that says the House version of the public option would cause insurance stocks to drop 36% by 2019. Jane concludes, "It's hard to look at" [...]
What happens when you get a lot of angry Democratic activists, ministers, and health care reform proponents into a room with Congressman Parker Griffith? I can just smell the BBQ smoke.....
Unfortunately, I couldn't attend the meeting that Congressman Parker Griffith held today with local NAACP members and health insurance [...]
Cigna spokesman Chris Curran declined to discuss the specifics of the RNC's plan, saying it's against company policy to reveal even the identities of its insured. But he said that Cigna's' [...]
They're about to throw women under the health care bus. The Blue Dogs are allying with the Republican bloc to effectively ban insurance coverage of abortion. Griffith and Bright are likely "yes" votes for this amendment -- Bright signed a letter endorsing Stupak's amendment months ago. More recently, [...]
Of course a reactionary dimwit state legislator has said he's going to draft legislation that would block the new policy.
However, I believe that he's going to [...]
Of course a reactionary dimwit state legislator has said he's going to draft legislation that would block the new policy.
However, I believe that he's going to [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 5.
1. Jon Walker reports on what he correctly calls a "cruel sick joke" - the Republican "health care reform "alternative." Among other things, "It does not ban insurance companies from refusing to cover pre-existing [...]
Well the first month of the fiscal year has now finished and the grand total for state spending is over $2.799 billion dollars, in one month.
Where did it go?
$1.38 billion to “Grants and Benefits”
$430 million in Medicaid payments to doctors and other service providers $344 million to local school systems $108 million [...]Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama controls 83% of the commercial market in Alabama. It's a virtual monopoly, definitely not a game, and competition is the prescription for a healthy insurance market.
This video from Americans United for Change is the centerpiece of a Facebook campaign encouraging viewers to [...]
Bold and [...]
Not just GUTS, but HEART too.
After reading over 8 minutes of the testimony of the people who have lost loved ones to our Murder For Profit Health Insurance, Alan [...]
Go read what Briane P said:
Call Jo Bonner at 202-225-4931, and explain to Jo that we don't have a free market for health insurance. A free market assumes that the seller and buyer have a choice, to get something or not get something, or to shop around.
But [...]
The congressman -- who is a leading liberal voice in the healthcare reform debate -- said that [...]
He’s four months old. It’s not like there’s anything he could have done to cause himself to be particularly chubby. His mother isn’t overweight. As Jon Stewert put it (paraphrased by me), it’s not like his mother’s breasts are named Ben and Jerry. [...] 