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• The health reform bills are just another bailout for financials.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout of the Financial Sector? Ellen Brown Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an ...
  3 days ago

• Private Health Insurance – Tips for Cost Cutting

  
  Abhishek Arora — Authority: 119
  Private Health Insurance – Cost Cutting Tips for Cheap Insurance Private Health Insurance , in simple words, is a type of insurance that one pays for to cover the expenses incurred to avail private treatment towards medical conditions that a person is facing. Earlier, paying for a private health insurance ...
  4 days ago

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Fighting Childhood Obesity

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 124
  According to the BCBSA website, BCBSA has started a new Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes Prevention Pilot Program in Texas, New Mexico, Mississippi, North Carolina and Kansas.  Through this program Blue Cross Blue Shield plans on reducing the epidemic of childhood obesity and stop further cases of young people ...
  4 days ago

• Breaking Down Healthcare Reform (Video by Libertarian Law Professor Richard Epstein)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  [You may have to play around a bit to get the video to operate. Make sure you click "Full Program" or you might just get a 2-minute clip.] This 30 minute video (including about 17 minutes of Q & A) from several months ago is Richard Epsteins analysis of the bill proposed by the House. But the main regulatory ...
  5 days ago

• Premium tax would hike health-insurance costs

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Why? Because Congress wants to levy a $6.7 billion premium tax on all private health plans each year for the next decade to pay for reform. That’s a $67 billion tax. Health plans will have no choice but to pass these costs on to the consumer. This tax will make it tougher for families to afford coverage, ...
  6 days ago

• December 23, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 127
  The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. Henry David Thoreau We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. H.L. Mencken Tarring and feathering from the movie, John Adams. The blogosphere is afire about the hypocrisy and ...
  1 week ago

• Why the Reid Bill is Unconstitutional

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In effect, the onerous obligations under the Reid Bill would convert private health insurance companies into virtual public utilities. This action is not only a source of real anxiety but also a decision of constitutional proportions, for it systematically strips the regulated health-insurance issuers of their ...
  1 week ago

• Where to Get a Discount Health Insurance Plan

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Looking for a discount health insurance plan with a reliable company? Here’s where to find one. State Sponsored Health Insurance Plans The first place to go to find a discount health insurance plan is your state’s insurance department website. Most states have low-cost and no-cost ...
  1 week ago

• Public Option vs. Single-Payer

  
  Very Important Stuff — Authority: 127
  FactCheck.org looks at the differences between the public option and single-payer . The so-called “public option” has taken several forms in several different health care bills this year in Congress. All of the proposals, however, would create a federal health care plan, something like Medicare, but for persons ...
  1 week ago

• What Does Federal Healthcare Insurance Provide?

  
  Fruit For Life — Authority: 130
  Federal health insurance is consistently known as Medicare, in the United States. In other places, they label it something different. With Medicare, the individuals are generally eligible to admit this help with medical expenses are those who are retired, senior citizens, or ones who have a disability that has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Private Health Plans

  
  Miami Every Day Photo — Authority: 423
  Here in West Kendall is a new location for the Leon Medical Centers. If you are in the US healthcare these days, you are supposed to make lots of money. This is a new 70,000 square foot facility that now is in addition to the five other locations catered only their members.
  2 weeks ago

• Medicaid and Antipsychotic Drugs for Children: Poverty at Work?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  According to research discussed in the New York Times this morning, children whose family poverty makes them eligible for Medicaid are four times as likely to be given antipsychotic drugs than children whose families have private health insurance, and the drugs are more likely to be given to the Medicaid children for ...
  2 weeks ago

• What You Need To Know About Federal Medical Insurance

  
  Daily Bulls — Authority: 151
  Federal health insurance is commonly alluded as Medicare, in the United States. In other nations, they label it something different. With Medicare, the individuals are generally eligible to admit this help with medical expenses are those who are retired, senior citizens, or ones who have a disability that has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• How a Few Private Health Insurers Are on the Way to Controlling Health Care

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 489
  Without some mechanism forcing private insurers to compete, were going to end up with a national health care system thats controlled by a handful of very large corporations accountable neither to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• You Will Lose Your Private Health Insurance

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Before Thanksgiving, the Senate voted to opening debate on President Obamas health-care bill, and that debate has begun in earnest this week. Well, if they want a debate, lets let them have it. But lets not get distracted by the sideshows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has planned for us. Forget about abortion. Of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care Bills Contain HUGE Marriage Penalty

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 140
  By Allen Quist, Guest BloggerThere is a huge middle-class marriage penalty hidden in the House and Senate health care bills. The penalty becomes evident by evaluating questions like the following:How much would two single people, each making $30,000 per year, pay for private health insurance if the Pelosi bill was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cosmetic Surgery Abroad – Making the Right Choice

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 165
  The past few years have seen a dramatic change in the public perception of cosmetic surgery, leading to a sixty five per cent increase in demand in 2004 alone. In fact, so popular has cosmetic surgery become that it is hard to turn on the television or open a magazine without encountering stories of lives [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Democrats Actually Voting To Raid Medicare To Fund ObamaCare

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 478
  If you are a senior and like your Medicare, then you are a pure idiot for voting Democrat, that’s all I can say. Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor ...
  3 weeks ago

• MLRs, Profits and Our Healthcare

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 127
  Yeah. It always comes down to money... There was a time, in the early 1990s, when health insurance companies devoted more than 95 cents out of every premium dollar to paying doctors and hospitals for taking care of their members. Today, insurers only pay about 81 cents of each premium dollar on actual medical ...
  3 weeks ago

• I’ve Lived Both Sides of the Healthcare System. This Is What Ive Learned.

  
  Wise Bread — Authority: 636
  By Paul Michael This debate has been furiously argued on both sides for several months, so I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring. I lived with the British National Health Service (NHS) until I was 26 years old, and then I moved to America. For the last 9 years, I have lived with private healthcare. Obviously ...
  3 weeks ago

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