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Deregulating insurance

Here’s something interesting. A woman who has had one Caesarean gets rejected by a health insurance company because they don’t want to risk having to pay for another one.
Check it out here
Now remember, John McCain’s healthcare fix is to turn all the insurance over to the marketplace. No more employer-based coverage. “Competition” should spur lower [...]

Dying for coverage

Wonder how many people are dying because they don’t have insurance? Check out Families USA’s study on state-by-state numbers f0r the years 2000 to 2006.
http://familiesusa.org/issues/uninsured/publications/dying-for-coverage.html
The total is a little shy of the study by the Institute of Medicine and the Urban League, but it’s chilling nevertheless.
Statistics always lag two to three years behind, especially on [...]

Good, but not good enough

This wouldn’t give affordable healthcare to everyone, but it’s a start.
According to the newspaper, The Hill, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) are working on a bill that would allow business associations such as the National Association of Realtors to offer group insurance plans that would put the cost of [...]

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