Not being able to afford health insurance shouldn't make you jealous of my taxpayer funded plan:(h/t Think Progress.)
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edited by: Bob DeMaura,
New Hampshire Editor
This article by Steve MacDonald sums up the reason we have few choices for health insurance in NH. The same person who caused this situation is now touting 'choice' with a government option. When you ignore history, you are doomed to repeat it.
Dear Catherine, It's Jeanne Shaheen's Fault
Someone shared ...
[...]Breaking a three-day stalemate, the Senate approved an amendment to its health care legislation that would require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women.
The vote was 61 to 39, with three Republicans joining 56 Democrats and the two independents in favor
The [...]
Someone shared this letter from Seacoast Online with me. Catherine Jones, a Portsmouth resident, beleives that a public option is the best solution for what ails our states health insurance problems. I guess she's never heard of Jeanne Shaheen or SB 711.
Here's Catherine's Letter.
Nov. 26 — To the Editor:
Here in New Hampshire, [...]
Someone shared this letter from Seacoast Online with me. Catherine Jones, a Portsmouth resident, beleives that a public option is the best solution for what ails our states health insurance problems. I guess she's never heard of Jeanne Shaheen or SB 711.
Here's Catherine's Letter.
Nov. 26 — To the Editor:
Here in New Hampshire, [...]
The battle over the new proposed government insurance program is getting heated up. In fact it does not appear to be about health insurance anymore; but, more about politics. If you support the government run health insurance do you support Obama? If you don’t support it does that make you [...]
http://www.unionleader.com/art...
Have they not been paying attention? As anyone who has been following this issue [...]
This could have been filed under Healthcare - I chose Proper Role of Government instead. Tell me, what is the difference from one organization FROM AN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM aspect that comes along and says:
"Pretty nice <insert your valued object here> you have here; a pity if something were to [...]OK, Hodes's spokesdude, Mark Bergman, has now decided to try to get the the "move" back (from what NHPoliticalReport is saying):
SOURCE: Democrats.com The House of Representatives passed health-reform legislation that included an anti-choice amendment that will seriously jeopardize women's access to abortion – making it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new health system to offer abortion coverage to women.
This would have the effect of denying women the right [...]
I sent this to Jim Pindell (proprietor of NHPoliticalReport when he alerted me to this "We know what is best for you - shut up and like us" presser from the Hodes campaign about Kelly Ayotte's simple statements of "why increase the cost of insurance?" :
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeremy Funk, 202-470-5878
DATE: November 8, 2009 Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870
Americans United for Change Applauds U.S. Reps. Hodes and Shea-Porter For Helping Pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act
“Thank You Representatives Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter for Standing Up to the Big Health Insurance Companies and [...]
I ended my last post this way:
Now add in the $103,000 rise in health insurance that we just learned about, and I start getting antsy. Sure, the Town Administrator has assured us that no change to the bottom line of the budget will happen - that's nice to hear....but I [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews, November 8, 2009
House Passes Weak Public Option Health Care Bill, Selling Out Women's Rights. Includes Democrats Who Voted Against Bill
By Rob Kall
Giving a $1.2 trillion gift to the health insurance industry, betraying women's rights, the house gave the white house what it wanted.' [...]
In the Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby shares three ideas to make health insurance more accessible and affordable.
Tear down the barriers to buying insurance across state lines.
[...]Here is Mike Pence on the newly-released Pelosi healthcare "reform" plan seeking a government-takeover of the industry, courtesy of the Washington News Observer:
"The Pelosi Health Care Bill has emerged, and it's just another version of their government run health insurance plan that's a freight train of bureaucracy and mandates [...]
Viagra celebrates a birthday! Viagra is, of course, covered by most health insurance plans, even though some of those same plans do not cover birth control pills.
Loose with numbers: Medicare fraud report a fiction
By PIERRE TRISTAM
ESSAYS
I haven't watched CBS' "60 Minutes" in years. But it was one of those stories that stops you in your tracks: Medicare fraud is "a $60 billion crime." Medicare is the $456 billion government health insurance program serving 46 million [...]
