Archives: 'Health Care'

Not some. Not Most. Guaranteed health care for ALL.

Your commercials that attempt to scare senior citizens out of supporting negotiation of drug prices are REPREHENSIBLE, as are the Rethuglican senators who blocked a bill this week that would have allowed negotiation by Medicare.
Lying, greedy, evil criminal scum is what you are, and don't you think for one moment that nobody notices.

Rising Premiums Threaten Job-Based Health Coverage
By Debora Vrana, L.A. Times Staff Writer
The average cost of health insurance for a family of four has soared past $10,800 — exceeding the annual income of a minimum-wage earner, according to a survey released Wednesday.
For some, this year's survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research Educational [...]

The following was posted on an email list I belong to. In my other life I do some non-profit work in health care reform and patient rights advocacy, and as a result I have developed a particular disdain for insurance companies and the government regulators who fail to regulate them. I have a hunch [...]

Consumer advocates said today that California should set a national example by regulating health insurance overhead costs as insurance company profits continue to see double digit increases. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) cited data released today showing that HMO profits increased 10.7 percent in 2004 after an 80 percent increase in 2003, [...]