edited by: Sally Jo Sorensen,
Minnesota Editor
Lois will be answering questions addressed to her here about health care reform on Saturday, 11/21, between 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
As a child growing up in Marshall, Minn., I had asthma. My father, a Lutheran minister, had a family health insurance plan that, though it had [...]
The National Cooperative Business Association has sent an advisory to co-ops that the most recent health care bill outlined by Senate Democrats still use the word CO-OP for possible new health insurance companies. Hold on a minute, says the NCBA.
The Senate language refers to “Consumer Operated [...]
While both the Senate and House health-care bills guarantee access to health insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions, neither one will do much to improve the affordability of health [...]
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Here at MN 2020 we are hard at work getting ready for the holidays. We just released our annual buy local report and I have been calling around to local businesses and artists to see if we can feature their products in our gift [...]
We recently learned that after ending health insurance for 30,000 of the poorest Minnesotans on a program called General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC), Governor Pawlenty plans to shift most of these individuals to MinnesotaCare. While MinnesotaCare has worked extremely well for working Minnesotans who are unable to access affordable health [...]
Why is it most people can’t quite grasp the classic misdirection being deployed by the democrats on the socialized medicine – destruction of private insurance - healthcare bill?
They load this POS up with all kinds of stuff the right and center find objectionable. Covering illegals, paying for abortions, jail [...]
The Sue Jeffers Show, Saturday 11-14-09, 4-7 PM KTLK, 100.3 FM
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
Can we kill the bill?
US House of Representatives pass mandated health insurance legislation and largest, most expensive [...]
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" [...]
Via Streetsblog, a Milwaukee business writer compares his home in Milwaukee with the condo he and his wife own in Spain and finds "all infrastructure — and no people":
What's the cost for living our American way? It's not just the thousands of dollars for the second car, insurance and [...]
It’s very fair to send people who disregard the federal mandate to buy health insurance to prison, Nancy Pelosi says, because otherwise they’ll assault citizens … with a bill for medical services … or something. Apparently, the occasionally unhealthy have become such a security risk that we need to imprison [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 10.
1. Jon Walker warns that the Stupak Amendment "reaches far beyond any of the reporting so far" and could "effectively stop many employer-provided health insurance plans from covering abortions for tens of millions of" [...]
Region Supported Amendment Banning Abortion Services from Bill by 12-11 Vote
The Upper Midwestern U.S. House delegation contributed 13 of the 220 votes Democrats received to pass a health care bill Saturday night that will require every American to obtain health insurance.
Two regional Blue Dog Democrats defected from their [...]
Looking at this little boy, who could deny him his best chance for health and wellness? In our current system of healthcare, the HMOs could and have. As a slightly oversized baby at birth, he is just one highly visible and glaring example of millions of Americans whose "" [...]
The Sue Jeffers Show, KTLK, 100.3 FM, 4 PM to 7 PM
Health Insurance Legislation-The worst bill ever
Do the Dem’s have the 218 votes needed to pass? How your representative will vote….get a pen ready!Election Results
DFL comes out to vote. What’s coming in 2010? [...]
