Private Insurers Denied Lifesaving Care Before Obamacare
2017-07-03 – Every once in a while you see a story circulating in the weboshpere about a foreign national health service denying lifesaving care. The story is written with great […]
Tag Archives: health insurance
The GOP Spent 7 Years Training You to Hate Their Own Health Plan—Literally
2017-06-29 – The GOP spent 7 years training you to hate their own health plan, and now they are stuck. I don’t mean this ironically. I mean this literally. For […]
Special Edition: What’s Awful in the GOP Health Care Bill
2017-05-04 – Well, they did it. They passed their anti-Obamacare bill. You better hope that the Senate stops this train wreck because here are some of the things that the […]
Here’s What Makes Obamacare Work
2017-01-17 – I saw an interesting health insurance proposal on Facebook that I think is worth talking about. Here’s a piece of it: “Perhaps the American people need to pool […]
Your Insurance Could Fail You at the Worst Moment If Obamacare Is Repealed
2017-01-19 – Yesterday I attended a rally to protest Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare (and other things). It was an overflow crowd at the Central SEIU Healthcare HQ in Chicago. […]
The Challenges of Obamacare
2016-08-18 – I went yesterday to pick up a new prescription. I had a new insurer, so I handed the pharm tech the new card and he went tap-tap-tap on the […]
Can We Afford Single-Payer?
2016-02-11 – President Obama’s signature achievement is Obamacare. Republicans like to say that Obamacare is an unprecedented expansion of the federal government. Everything is unprecedented. But if Obamacare is what […]
HealthCare.gov is Very Extremely Average
2013-10-24 – Jon Stewart thinks it’s a scandal that only 10% of the people who went to HealthCare.gov completed the process (i.e., bought health insurance—at approx. 02:40 of this video). […]
I Owe My Soul . . . No More
201310-02 – It has been common to say that, if you are covered by employer-provided healthcare, you are not affected by Obamacare. This is true in a technical sense. […]
What You Deserve
2012-10-10 – Had a conversation with a guy Sunday about Obamacare. He calls it socialist. I asked him what that meant to him, since everybody’s definition of socialism is very […]
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