health care reform

Health care reform benefit a middle class employee?

How does the healthcare reform benefit a middle class families. What exactly is being changed? Does it reduce the medicare tax that is being deducted from my pay check?

health care reform

I'm not sure about you, but watching abortion coverage become the catch-all phrase for the "evils" of health care reform and hearing about how insurance companies classify cesareans as "pre-existing"...

Obama's health care reform

I was wondering how others felt about the new health care reform? I read in the paper that he was going to force everyone to get a health care plan or they would have to pay the government. What if...

The Cost of Health Care Reform

The cost of health care in the United States is around 2.2 trillion dollars. Health care reform is estimated to cost one trillion dollars for just 16 million uninsured. Why is reform costing...

For your consideration inside healthcare bill H.R.3200 approve or disapprove?

With a healthcare bill over 1,000 pages most people do not know the details deep with in the bill,some people thank goodness have taken the time to learn just what the details actually mean. For...

Heath Care Reform-- Looking at the Glass Half-Full

Rdan (Run 75441...h/t) Maggie Mahar writes an essay that is now cross posted at Angry Bear with the author's permission:Health Beat, a Project of the Century Foundation;November 4, 2009...

Open Thread on Senate Health Care Bill

by Bruce WebbI am still working out the new formatting and rather than hog all the page space here I'll just put up some links to the bill, the CBO Score, plus some extended discussion with extracted...

Health Affairs States the Obvious, So We Don't Have To

Bob Somerby has been on a rant at The Daily Howler that "liberals" do not understand the Stupak Amendment.Unfortunately, claims he makes about Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann and their guests do...

Health Care Reform and Caregivers Refusing Medicare Patients

Robert goes out on a limb and guess that Lori Montgomery fell for (or is pushing) Republican spin in this article in the Washington PostReport: Bill would reduce senior careMedicare cuts approved by...

STILL the most important sentence in the House HC Bill

by Bruce WebbMuch of the criticism about the House Health Care Bill coming from the left revolves around the 'fact' that it has no meaningful premium and so profit controls. Moreover most of those...