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How health insurance companies gave Obama’s health care reform it’s second wind

March 16, 2010

In November, the Democrats were on the ropes. The GOP had just elected themselves a golden child with Scott Brown and tilted the scales back below sixty votes in the Senate. They had won two gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The media was calling the Health Care Reform bill dead. Time between now [...]

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We are creating our own nanny state and them is us

December 8, 2009

The photo above in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye this morning and sent me into a tizzy. For the record, I am a bit upset at the direction the health care reform bill is taking. It favors the preservation of the insurance company system by forcing us to buy the same crap that [...]

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Insurance companies should fear people like Dr. Dave Ores more than any health care reform bill

November 16, 2009

While the politicians in Washington argue about how many uninsured people there really are, call each other liars and debate over eleventh-hour amendments, real people with real lives are not waiting around for some edict to determine their destiny. They get fed up, roll up their sleeves and get the job done themselves. And [...]

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Health care reform my puppy butt

October 8, 2009

Yesterday, Keith Olbermann had a one-hour special comment about health insurance and health care in America. He has recently had a first-hand experience with his father.
I don’t know how much it cost to produce one hour of Countdown nor do I know what the lost opportunity costs are from insurance ad revenue MSNBC will [...]

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Kill the beast! The public option in health care reform

September 14, 2009

The title of this post is taken from the lyrics of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and explains what the right is doing with the so-called public option of health care reform. Love or hate him, Robert Reich explains the public option clearly, at least to us who laugh at the notion of “competition” with [...]

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The $5,000 health insurance question

October 4, 2008

I am a self-employed dog who buys his own health insurance. I’ve been listening to all these pundits and political candidates talking about government “getting out of the way” so individuals can buy their own health insurance. “Let the free market do it’s thing” is the cry from most of them.
I have come to [...]

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Will the real Republicans please stand up?

January 27, 2007

I was listening to the well-paid Fox News folks on Saturday who have health insurance, paid vacation, etc. talking about the health insurance problem in these United States. The topic of fully-employed people having to get their own health insurance because their employers could no longer afford to provide it came up and the undertones [...]

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