Healthcare Reform

By Orac, Respectful Insolence Not long ago, I wrote a post warning about how funding for non-science-based modalities and, indeed, modalities that are purely religion-based, have found their way into various versions of health care reform bills that are currently...

The House has announced that it has a healthcare reform bill with a public option that it will release to the floor next week.  The bill will not reimburse providers at Medicare rates +5% which is a big disappointment...

Reading through the AP and Reuters wire articles last night and today it's clear that the corporate media wants the public option dead and buried. To use an analogy apropos from the season based on what the corporate...

Joe Lieberman is quoted by TPM to promise to side with Republicans on a filibuster to kill the public option. Who's surprised? Raise your hands. Anyone? This is the same crazed human incarnation of Droopy the Dog who attacked Obama...

Yesterday Harry Skywalker blew up the death star when he decided to add the public option to the Senate healthcare bill that is going to the floor but Darth Lieberman who was the only prominent member of the Democratic...

Reid says health care bill to have public option One of the few times the red banner headlines are apropos. "WASHINGTON – Majority Leader Harry Reid says health care legislation headed to the Senate floor will include an option for...

Seriously, I am having doubts that any of this has anything to do with resolving the nation’s health care issues. I see almost nothing that would substantively reduce the national cost of health care. I am becoming convinced that about a...

Some stories hit you hard because you were in that exact situation at some point. "In 2003, William Koehler of Pittsburgh, Pa. lost his job as an electronics technician. He lost his health insurance, too, but he'd been lucky enough...

Now let's get a good bill with the public option.

Yes, you read that right, the insurance industry has come out strong to promote the need of a public option. They announced in a report today that the Baucus bill, which doesn't have a true public option, would force them...