Archive for the 'Health Care Debate' Category

Hawaii drops child universal health care

Posted by Moonage on 17 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Health Care Debate

Here’s the shocker of a lifetime:
Hawaii Ending Universal Child Health Care After 7 Months
Two other shocking conclusions:

It cost a lot more than expected. ( When has a social program NOT cost more than expected? )
“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for [...]

Conseco Life Insurance

Posted by Moonage on 25 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate

I have been helping a friend of mine deal with Conseco Life Insurance over a small policy that pays a maximum of $70 a day for hospice type services.  I can’t go into their personal details here due to HIPAA regulations.  I also will not bore everyone with all the background of Conseco right now.  [...]

Get your heroin safely in San Francisco

Posted by Moonage on 19 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Government, Health Care Debate, War On Drugs

This is nuts:
City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.
Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility in [...]

Putting the health care issue in perspective

Posted by Moonage on 08 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Health Care Debate

Steve Verdon writes an article for Outside The Beltway that pretty much nails the health care debate that is occurring in this presidential election season:
….So here we see a situation where fixing the problem with people lacking access to health care could actually exacerbate the underlying problem of health care expenditures. This is one of [...]

Oh no, here we go again

Posted by Moonage on 24 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Health Care Debate

Several times in this campaign, Hillary Clinton has cited her failed health care reform agenda of the early nineties.  She acknowledges it didn’t work too well, and thinks she knows why ( blaming it on that vast health care industry lobby groups ).  I blamed it on lousy reforms of 1993.  Just when I thought [...]

Bush’s health care incentive

Posted by Moonage on 23 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate

President Bush is set to unveil a new health care incentive tonight. People are already all over it. My gut feeling is this will help, but not solve, the crisis we have in the US. It’s not so much a problem that people can’t afford health insurance, it’s more a problem that [...]

Medicare for All

Posted by Moonage on 10 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate, Polls

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]

Nixing Certificate of Need laws

Posted by Moonage on 22 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate

I have long contended certificate of need laws inhibit competition and progress in the health care field, allowing providers who control the existing CON’s to charge basically whatever they want due to restricted competition.  Now, it appears, SOME people are agreeing with me:
In a reversal of its position that could pit the economic interests of [...]

How free should the medical market be?

Posted by Moonage on 27 Jun 2006 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate

Nikhil Rao at Homeland Stupidity pens an excellent artivle on the health care debate.  Basically, how free should the market be?
I like the points made there.  However, "let the sucker beware" works fine and dandy with used cars.  However, when you’re dealing with addictive substances, the game changes IMO.  In the case of tobacco, it [...]

How not to win support ( aka Kennedy’s a hipaacrite )

Posted by Moonage on 31 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate

Ted Kennedy thinks we need to address health care reform.  Bully for him.  This is how he’s going about gaining the support he needs to get it done:
"Health savings accounts €¦ may work for a few young people that are very, very, healthy," Kennedy said. "We are finding every day more and more families are [...]

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