"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 16th, 2006
Worldandnation: Bush talks up plan for health savings accounts The president made his case for health savings accounts at Wendy’s International Inc., where 9,000 employees have signed up for the accounts since the hamburger giant began offering them last year. “After more than five years of health care costs going at double-digit rates, Wendy’s overall [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 3rd, 2006
KR Washington Bureau | 02/02/2006 | Windfall for drug industry raises questions Anyone surprised by this, anyone at all? If you let lobbyists write the legislation guess who benefits? The GOP has abandoned any pretense at fiscal responsibility and ethical conduct in crafting legislation. This is not to say that democrats were innocent, but the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2006
Inmate health care costs you millions This is a testimony to the ass back wards way we do things in this country, we are law abiding citizens who make maybe 14,000 dollars a year, and these guys get better medical care than most of the indigent and elderly, if they are eligible. Best medications no [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2006
TPMCafe || Me and my HSA This is a doctor’s take on what’s wrong with HSA’s has a cure all for what ails the health insurance market. The expansion of HSA’s will be a center piece of SOTU address on Tuesday.
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 25th, 2006
TPMCafe || Corruption Matters Check out this post on TMP Cafe for a wonderful job of what went wrong and why. The MMA was the archetypal example of why I’ve always believed that government split between parties is always better. When one party controls all three branches of government they can do real damage. I [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 24th, 2006
This is from Ezra trying to predict what the president will discuss during the State of the Union Address. It’s the best description of what’s wrong with the idea of HSA has a panacea to “fix” the health care system in the U.S. TAPPED: January 2006 Archives HSA’s, also, will not solve, halt, or slow [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2006
Medicare Woes Take High Toll on Mentally Ill – New York Times The long term costs of the new Medicare pharmaceutical company benefit program have yet to be measured. Here’s one: the destabilization of psychiatric patients because of bureaucratic bumbling. Instead of creating a program using the much more robust payment system already existing in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 16th, 2006
President Tells Insurers to Aid Ailing Medicare Drug Plan – New York Times With tens of thousands of people unable to get medicines promised by Medicare, the Bush administration has told insurers that they must provide a 30-day supply of any drug that a beneficiary was previously taking, and it said that poor people must [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 22nd, 2005
Worldandnation: Study: Medicare misses drug discounts Gee whiz, how could that be?!?!? Maybe because a big chunk of the law was written by big-Pharma? Perhaps because our politicians are shameless whores pandering to special interests on our dime? It was so absolutely predictable.
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 26th, 2005
F.D.A. Again Denies Application for Morning-After Pill – New York Times The FDA delayed approval of the Plan B “morning after pill”. Commissioners called for a 60 period to “gather public sentiment”. The pill’s maker, Barr Labs, said in a statement that while the agency officials had agreed that studies proved that women 17 years [...]
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Matt at Abstract Appeal has an update to his extensive Schiavo coverage. He finds that the report supports the conclusion that the legal system did it’s proper job. I would add that, the leagl system did it’s job despite political interference from the state legislature, governor, congress and the president.
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 15th, 2005
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Schiavo Autopsy Report Due Out Today – AP on Yahoo! News “TAMPA, Fla. – The lawyer for Terri Schiavo’s husband says he’s confident the long-awaited autopsy report on the brain-damaged woman will show no evidence she was abused before she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state. ADVERTISEMENT More than two months after Schiavo’s death ended [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 6th, 2005
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