health care reform
Why I Voted NO by Dennis Kucinich
We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem.
Do We Really Want to Enshrine Insurance Monopoly into Law? by John Nichols
The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S. House Saturday night with overwhelming support from progressive Democrats who serve in the chamber and from a president who was nominated and elected with the enthusiastic support of progressive voters.
But that does not mean that informed and engaged progressives are entirely enthusiastic about the measure.
The S-Word and Dr. Kevorkian's Accountant: Health care Rx from my socialist fire department by Greg Palast
Tell me where it hurts, Mr. President.
What's killing you, Barack, is what's killing us all: an evil germ called "Medical Loss Ratio."
"Medical Loss Ratio" [MLR] is the fancy term used by health insurance companies for their slice, their take-out, their pound of flesh, their gross - very gross - profit.
The "MLR" is the difference between what you pay an insurance company and what that insurer pays out to doctors, hospitals and pharmacists for your medical care.
Mr. President, it's time to fight by Bill Moyers
The editors of the Economist magazine say America's healthcare debate has become a touch delirious, with people accusing each other of being evil-mongers, dealers in death, and un-American.
Well, that's charitable.
I would say it's more deranged than delirious, and definitely not un-American.
Town Hall Meeting in the High Desert: A Civil Debate Among Murderous Retards Yasha Levine
It was a hot day, still 98 degrees at 6 PM, as I zoomed through gridlock on my freshly fixed 1979 Kawasaki KZ-400, squeezing between the monster trucks and lifted SUVs clogging one of Victorville’s main drags, pouring sweat into my helmet and leather jacket on my way to an anti-Obamacare “town hall” meeting at the local community college.
There's no getting around the fact that conservatism is evil by Dennis Rahkonen
I'm old enough to remember that some of the very same kinds of people -- and in several cases precisely the same individuals -- who regularly invoked God to fiercely resist racial civil rights and women's equality a few decades back, are now thumping the Bible in a wicked attempt at keeping homosexuals from marrying.
They also believe young girls impregnated by teenaged date-rapists who often come from "proper" Republican families commit murder by wisely choosing abortions.
DIVE ARTISTS: Dems 'lose' again on health care
Man. It’s been years that I’ve forced myself to observe, with muted horror, the degeneration of political discourse in America. Occasionally, I’ve even had the pleasure of taking part in it. But it seems I’m never quite cynical enough to predict the depths we’re willing to plumb as a nation.
Town Hall Lunacy Includes Outraged Calls to 'Keep Government Out of Medicare,' When Medicare Is Government by Joshua Holland
Some can't reconcile what they believe about the propaganda that is fed to them with their own positive experiences with public programs like Medicare.
As the health care discussion has descended from contentious to surreal, there is perhaps one message that encapsulates better than any other the incoherence of those expressions of rage seen at town hall meetings across the country: "Keep government out of my Medicare!"
It's Robbery: Health Care Proposals in Congress Look More Like a Rip-Off Than Reform by Chris Hedges
Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87%
Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428%
Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance: 7 in 10 — Harper’s Index, September 2009
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