Shrill AHIP warnings that 2015 rates will skyrocket means single payer must...
AHIP is guaranteeing huge premium increases.And the AHIP warnings reached a crescendo today, after the Obama announcement.The announcement by President Obama, that there will be a one year reprieve so...
View ArticleTidal wave of support from Americans long denied access to basic healthcare,...
UPDATE:JUST POSTED ON N.Y. HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE: Attention:Due to overwhelming interest in the NY State of Health - including 2 million visits in the first 2 hours of the site launch - the health...
View ArticleTenet Healthcare Wall St. conf. call reveals system plagued by high...
There are several huge inherent problems with high deductible junk insurance.High deductible insurance shifts what is called first dollar coverage from the insurer to the consumer. This is why it is...
View ArticleTweet @HarryReid and thank him for supporting #singlepayer
Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader told Nevada PBS yesterday that Obamacare was "absolutely a first step toward single payer.If anyone can get a link and put it up on You Tube, I'll embed it right...
View ArticleBottom line: Obamacare really is for the 99%
The right wing, led by the moral reprobates at Freedom Works are determined to sabotage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act. They are targeting 18- 34 year olds, the cohort most critical to the...
View ArticleNew study: Single payer healthcare could save 1.8 trillion over 10 years
I am rooting for Obamacare to succeed. That does not mean we should abandon single payer.I'm not a single payer nihilist, though there are plenty of people who believe the road to single payer runs...
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I'm about to pay $8665 a year for crappy high deductible insurance in NYS
Quick disclaimer.I am a fierce champion of single payer. I am on the board of California OneCare, one of the most active single payer organizations in California. But right now, we are several...
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Paul Ryan: 47 percenter-in-chief, and his government healthcare
Along with the 2011 Romney tax returns, Romney/Ryan released some health information.So while they go around the country railing about repealing Obamacare, keep in mind what Paul Ryan considers sacred...
View ArticleWhen a leader of the Republican Party receives a deadly diagnosis. . .
Representative Dave Camp was just diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.Dave Camp is a leader in the Republican Party, the Chairman of the House ways and Means Committee. Dave is committed, like all...
View ArticleHighmark, official USOC health insurance supplier, sells junk insurance to...
Well, it looks like the broken, collapsed and shameful American "healthcare" system has even crawled up the ass of elite Olympic athletes.Highmark is a proud official Olympic supplier. Highmark even...
View ArticleNew Commonwealth Fund Report: By all metrics, Medicare outperforms private...
Here's the take home message, the money quote, if you will, of this important new Commonwealth Fund study.The experiences of people covered by Medicare and those with private employer insurance can...
View ArticleMore Aurora anguish: In U.S. uninsured victims of gun violence also face...
This has got to be one of the most heartbreaking diaries I've ever written.This is an only-in-America situation, which in my opinion, has not been properly covered by the media. We've heard about Caleb...
View ArticleOur 'starter home' the ACA, our mansion, Medicare for All-UPDATE: AHIP...
UPDATE - The AHIP threat statement :Cost Impact of Other ACA Provisions The health care reform law includes a number of provisions that will increase the cost of health care coverage: According to a...
View ArticleUrgent new warnings from Wendell Potter #singlepayer #MedicareforAll
Thanks to JoeDemocrat for pointing me to this article in the Huffington Post by our friend, great American, and fellow Kossack Wendell Potter, How Obama and the Democrats Got Played by the Insurance...
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#singlepayer #Medicareforall - Uninsured, stage 4 cancer, and 6 months from...
My name is Jane Lang of Salem, N.H., a 64-years-young woman without health insurance and this is my story.This is a photo of Jane and the nurses who helped her. Jane was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer...
View ArticleHealthcare economist Uwe Reinhardt handicaps SCOTUS on the ACA
I'm literally sick with worry about what we're facing next week.So what do I do? I read and read and read, hoping to find someone with something interesting or enlightening to say.No one is better...
View ArticleAmericans enrolled in the ACA Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan are very,...
Bensdad made a very appropriate commentabout a pivotal reason we are facing the possible (likely?) dismantling of the Affordable Care Act.He said:Which is why the only way to ensure the survival of the...
View ArticleReady, really ready for a fight . . . WITH UPDATE
UPDATE:Here's an excellent article by Jonathan Chait on what to expect from SCOTUS just posted on the New York Magazine website.Are you ready for a showdown?I am.It's intolerable and unacceptable to be...
View ArticleMore expert information/speculation on SCOTUS and the ACA
What follows is some of the more interesting stuff I've been reading over the last several hours on how the SCOTUS decision on the ACA might play out, and when we might get this historic decision.And...
View ArticleSomber words from Robert Reich, Marcia Angell MD, and others on life after...
The New York Times has an important cross section of opinion about what we might expect after the SCOTUS ruling.The analysis is critical reading for everyone wondering where this storm is headed.Within...
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