healthcare

Obamacare Wins for the 3rd Time At the Supreme Court

Arguably the most important decision that needs to be made is what to replace the crazy mixed private public charitable national state county medical care system we currently have, costing twice as much as any advanced nation's medical system and a hundred times more complicated, with. Health...

Suppose the Right wing got it's way, Zero taxes, no government hand outs, no government interference. [edit: no government money redistribution or regulated pay rates] A low paid job might pay 6.00 dollars an hour, work 3000 hours a year like they do in China [edit: or many people working two...

Coronavirus survival comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page price tag Yet another example of the insanity of for-profit health care in the US.

Jail staff mocked a sick man as he begged for help, video shows. Days later, he was dead. When you treat people like animals simply because they are in jail, this is an unsurprising outcome. One must think of all the people that have been jailed or imprisoned and ask if they are all horrible...

It Looks Like Health Insurance, But It's Not. 'Just Trust God,' Buyers Are Told. Pay less for no coverage!

Dallas Has Been Dispatching Social Workers to Some 911 Calls. It's Working. When you send in people that don't think shooting somebody is their best options, usually you get better results.

New York is investigating UnitedHealth's use of a medical algorithm that steered black patients away from getting higher-quality care Just because something is done using a computer algorithm doesn't mean bias does not exist.

With the Affordable Care Act's future in doubt, evidence grows that it has saved lives

I believe we have heard this tune before. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me. Joe Biden to Run on Obamacare, Repeats Lie About Keeping Your Plan Posted by Mike LaChance Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 7:00am “if you like your health care plan … you can keep it.” While...

Supreme Court Declines Key Planned Parenthood Case

Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980

A new study, by the US based philanthropic group, The Commonwealth Fund, has completed an evaluation of healthcare systems in 11 comparatively wealthy countries; Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United...

The Senate is working on various options being presented about healthcare laws. Democrats want to keep Obamacare. 12 Republicans are secretly writing a bill to repeal Obamacare. Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican, has proposed allowing each state to decide for itself whether to keep...

I must admit I am very disappointed with the party that monopolizes itself as the pro-life party & during the healthcare debate this year they wanted to dish a lot of the consumer protections that most folks would laud any country to have in its policies. Healthcare is a complex reality of life...

Link: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/05/19/3779838/pope-francis-health-care-leeches/