We know what the local “Tea Parties” look like. Check out this-a woman who lost her 7mo pregnant daughter-in-law because of lack of health insurance is heckled and laughed at in this Town Hall meeting.
My head hurts again.
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A Canadian IBM employee lost her disability benefits after the insurance company checked out her Facebook profile. According to the Daily News, "Nathalie Blanchard was diagnosed with depression and granted leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que." a year and a half [...]
To mark its 50th anniversary, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently pitted a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air against its contemporary counterpart, a 2009 Malibu, in a 40 mph crash test. As you can see in the video, the Malibu destroys its predecessor.
The results were intended [...]
Yesterday, the United States Preventive Services Task Force ("an influential group that provides guidance to doctors, insurance companies and policy makers") recommended that women get mammograms starting at age 50, reversing its previous position that mammograms should start at age 40. According to the [...]
Did you know that the price for Viagra had doubled since its introduction? Check out Digby’s moral objection to Insurance Companies paying for Viagra (quite seriously funny)
I have a moral objection to paying for any kind of erectile dysfunction medicine in the new health reform bill [...]
Yeah - Join the RNC to get Insurance to pay for elective abortions. That they canceled it now is not the issue How long has this been going on?
Hypocrites
‘Chagrined’ GOP chair ends abortion insurance for employees
Even though his own views towards abortion have moderated over the years, RNC chair [...]
County leaders applaud Governor David Paterson and state lawmakers for moving forward on a mandate relief measure that will enact major components of legislation necessary for the more efficient operation of local governments.
The bill, passed last night, addresses cost saving measures by enhancing intermunicipal agreements for health insurance cooperatives, highway [...]
We just completed the open enrollment at my place of employment. Unlike the recent D&C article headline Health insurance options befuddle many I wasn’t befuddled because my company made the choice for me by reducing the number of providers offered to just one. Befuddled? No. Pissed? Yeah. Trouble is [...]
True to his word, Eric Massa voted against final passage of healthcare reform in the House. Earlier, he voted against the Stupak amendment which restricted use of insurance for abortions.
In the comments and via email, some readers are wondering if this was an "insurance" vote which would help [...]
Congressman Eric Massa, Democrat from NY-29, will be voting against HR 3962, the current iteration of the health care reform bill. Whether you’re for or against health insurance reform of any kind, you have to hand it to Massa for standing on principle. At Netroots [...]
On a conference call, today, Congressman Massa has said that he will vote “No” on the new House Health Care Reform Bill because it will(paraphrased)
“…enshrine monopolistic powers of health insurance industry into law while failing to address,
How do we control costs? Interstate portability Waste and fraud (the inefficiency of, costing $700 billion [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, October 29.
1. Jon Walker writes that by stopping the "robust public option tied to modified Medicare rates," Blue Dog Democrats handed "a huge victory [to] the health insurance industry, hospitals, and PhRMA." Walker adds, "If" [...]
Andrew Cuomo says that new non-profit health care database for New Yorkers will be up and running soon. Back in January Cuomo muscled health insurance companies to pony up millions to make good f...
Continue reading "Cuomo Says Non-Profit Health Care Database Ready Soon" > [...]From Down with Tyranny comes this:
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll yesterday showed continued growth in support for a public option. Voters want meaningful health care reform with choices for consumers that don’t leave them to the mercies of avaricious insurance companies. And as support for the public [...]
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is trumpeting the use of $100 million in health care settlement money to establish a new reimbursement database for “out-of-network” payments. The new not-for-profit outfit will replace the old system, which was designed and run by health insurance companies and, as Cuomo argued, hopelessly conflict-ridden [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for an eventful Monday, October 26.
1. Jon Walker writes that Olympia Snowe feels so strongly "about giving the insurance companies another chance" that she's willing "to waste $100 billion of your tax payer money...for the explicit purpose of" [...]
