She is the first one to officially come out against the Senate bill: The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago. Even though the House version is far from perfect, it at least represents a step toward our goal of giving 36 million Americans […]
Here is the video of Wendell Potter I mentioned last night: Anyone who seriously thinks that the insurance companies are going to play nice and buy the rules is seriously mistaken.
Something I have been saying all along was just repeated on Countdown by former health insurance executive Wendell Potter – there is nothing to stop insurance companies from raising rates. The bill backers have been touting out charts and tables derived from the CBO report to highlight savings with the new reform. One thing they […]
McJoan over at DailyKos has put together one hell of a post highlighting the good and bad of the Senate health care bill. Bottom line – if we can get rid of the mandates I think we have something we can all stomach and then work on. In all honesty the mandates should be removed […]
I decided to take a cue from Bob’s post and look at the trend of the health insurance stocks over the past month. Here is Aetna, Cigna and Universal. I highlighted some significant dates. An important note – basically every story broke in the evening, after the stock market closed, so the effects wouldn’t take […]
Politifact has named “death panels” it’s 2009 lie of of the year, and rightfully so. There is not a thing in any of these bills that amount to “death panels”, and I have gone through the bill pretty thoroughly and spent most of the day yesterday going back through while merging in the Senate changes. […]
Read this and see exactly who wrote it. This is the same type of corruption that brought us the Medicare plan in 2003 that lead to disaster for millions of seniors.
People can keep saying that this isn’t a hand out to insurance companies, but the simple fact that their stocks are sky rocketing tells a totally different story. In this case I will go with the opinion of Wall Street.
If I said that then some on the left would attack me saying I don’t know what’s in the bill, but how about when someone who does know what’s in it makes the statement? “I don’t sleep well,” Mr. Sanders said. “I am struggling with this issue very hard, trying to sort out what is […]
Nate Silver points out: The Record Profits Myth strikes again — I don’t like the insurance companies either; I’d gladly get rid of them and replace them with single payer. But the industry’s profits are low: only about 3.3%. So what happens when insurance companies are forced to spend 85-90% of premiums on health care […]