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Health Insurance Reform is still on my mind, what about everyone else?
I'm posting 2 columns from the Washington Post that kind of echoes my insistance that something must be done about healthcare in this country because its totally on my mind. My boyfriend got really sick in December and had to stay in the hospital for 4 days and eventually get a surgical biopsy. He is fine, and we are lucky that he works for a small business employer that pays 100% of his health care costs. 4 days in the hospital - 12K. Outpatient surgery $50k. He has doctor's visits and more test to be done - additional thousands. We are lucky he has such good benefits. I, on the other hand, do not. My Fortune 500 company was bought by a Fortune 50 company last year. This year we are on the new health plan for our new employer. If the same thing happened to me I would have to pay 5k out of pocket. If I want to have a baby someday I would have to pay 5k out of pocket. Basically if anything happens to me, since my insurance only covers 80% of any hospital, surgery, or such expense - I would come up to the maximum out of pocket. All while paying 60 bucks a month in premiums. Talk about a major pay decrease! Oh and if I was married my spouse couldn't be covered unless they couldn't get insurance on their own. And how long before all of you out there without the potential for high medical bills are in the same boat? This is the trend if nothing is done. Ok enough rant, the two articles now: Abandoning health care after the Brown election, and other Washington nonsense By Steven Pearlstein Friday, January 22, 2010 People, let's get a grip!The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare: Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit. With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply not sustainable.Pardons
The criminal record limits your right to training, employment, promotion and obtaining licenses and permits and is also a reason why insurance companies can refuse membership (home insurance, car insurance, health insurance) or you pay high rates. http://www.pardoncanadaservice.caFACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat
WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry.Fines proposed for going without health insurance
WASHINGTON – Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health care overhaul. As Obama talked strategy with Democratic leaders at the White House, the one idea that most appeals to his party's liberal base lost ground in Congress. Prospects for a government-run plan to compete with private insurers sank as a leading moderate Democrat said he could no longer support the idea.Heavy infant in Grand Junction denied health insurance
Frustrated parents of a big infant who is being denied insurance view the system as "absurd." By Nancy Lofholm The Denver Post GRAND JUNCTION — Alex Lange is a chubby, dimpled, healthy and happy 4-month-old. But in the cold, calculating numbered charts of insurance companies, he is fat.Up to $3,800 fine for failure get health insurance
Up to $3,800 fine for failure get health insurance WASHINGTON – A top senator is calling for fines of up to $3,800 on families who fail to get medical insurance after a health care overhaul goes into effect. The plan from Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana would make health insurance mandatory, just like auto coverage.Democratic investigators target health insurers
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26251.html House Democrats are probing the nation’s largest insurance companies for lavish spending, demanding reams of compensation data and schedules of retreats and conferences. Letters sent to 52 insurance companies by Democratic leaders demand extensive documents for an examination of ‘extensive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.” The letters set a deadline of Sept. 14 for the documents.Study of hospitals puts price tag on California's dirty air
California's dirty air led to nearly $200 million in hospital spending over a three-year period – including $9 million in Sacramento County – because of asthma, pneumonia and other pollution-triggered ailments, according to a study released today.
With its research, Rand Corp. attempts to put a price tag on the state's bad air.
Catholic Church Abandons Foster Children Now That Homosexuals Can Marry in DC
Catholic Church abandons foster children over DC gay marriage law The Supreme Court yesterday chose not to block DC's gay marriage law. This means same sex couples should be able to apply for marriage licenses in the nation's capital today. The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, which threatened to abandon their contracts for providing social services in DC if gay marriage became law, has already ended its foster care program.
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