no health insurance

If you had to have an operation...

and you didn't have health insurance. How would you set about coming up with the money to pay for the operation? The operation is going to cost you 8.000.00. What do you do?

I'm so sick today and have no health insurance to see a doctor. Remedies?

I'm terribly sick w/ the flu or something today. My health insurance has not kicked in yet to see a Dr., so I'm milking my illness at home. I'm obviously taking over the counter medicine, but do...

Malinda Markowitz: Time for a sea change on health care

The following is a reader take by Malinda Markowitz.If you wonder why Republican campaign strategists are worried about their party's vulnerability on health care, consider the story of Leslie Elder...

California kids may face triple whammy, leading to more uninsured

By Sarah Arnquist After years of seeing decreasing numbers of uninsured children, California is poised to go the other direction. For years, child enrollment in private health insurance plans...

Cost containment is the missing link in Obama's health plan

By Robert Laszewski Barack Obama’s health care plan follows the Democratic template—an emphasis on dramatically and quickly increasing the number of people who have health insurance by spending...

Cost containment: the missing link in Obama's health reform plan

By Robert Laszewski Barack Obama’s health care plan follows the Democratic template—an emphasis on dramatically and quickly increasing the number of people who have health insurance by spending...

Updated detailed, nonpartisan analysis of Barack Obama's health reform plan

By Robert Laszewski Barack Obama’s health care plan follows the Democratic template—an emphasis on dramatically and quickly increasing the number of people who have health insurance by spending...

How To Get Affordable Health Insurance In Alabama

I'm sure you're aware that there is a national debate going on about how to make health insurance more affordable here in Alabama as well as elsewhere in the country. Unfortunately that same debate...

What McCain should say, but won’t. A "tipping point" post.

Melanie Scarborough lists and discusses 5 points that Republicans, if we could truly discuss the issues as they ought to be discussed, should be running on.Unfortunately - and it is one among many...

Obama Proposes $6 Billion Tax Credit for Small Businesses

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is making an attempt to appeal to small businesses that provide their employees with health insurance. ...

Germany: America on My Mind

German Spectator is a new column published by the Brussels Journal. It aims to provide a regular survey of German mainstream media coverage of politics, religion and society, as well as of foreign...

The evidence grows that government health care is not the solution

The Canadian health care system’s problems can be summarized in one sentence:"We thought we could resolve the system’s problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new...