Articles tagged with: health care reform
A couple of salient points in the hoo-ha coming today from those who lost the health care fight:
Not all Americans hate the new law. More people think it will help than think it will hurt. …
It’s kind of awkward that the Federal Trade Commission wants the health-care bill to include a ban on settlements between drug companies that keep generic drugs off the market – delays the commission says costs …
It took me a while, but I finally figured out where I’d previously seen the scam the drug companies are trying to pull off on health care reform.
It was about this time last year, at …
I understand Republicans a little less every day.
Government-funded public health insurance: Bad. It’ll blow up the budget.
The stimulus bill and its middle-class tax cuts: Evil. No need to fritter away money unless we’re throwing it …
Have you come down from the ceiling yet over the story about the nine states where insurance company can refuse to provide health coverage for domestic violence victims because the abuse is a “pre-existing …
File under the category of “things workers already know but certain so-called leaders like to deny:”
Workers’ health insurance costs increased 5 percent this year – for those still lucky enough to have both jobs and …
A good friend’s husband retired a few years back, but they made sure they had continuing health coverage, to the tune of $1,400 a month – that’s actually not a bad deal these days.
For all …
I’m not going to pick on Joe Wilson.
The South Carolina congressman earned the honors of poster boy of the week for Foot in Mouth Disease after his impolitc political outburst Wednesday during the president’s health …
Proof positive health-insurance executives are living on a different planet from the rest of us:
A company that covers federal workers tells a 5-year-old Reno girl with leukemia that she’ll have to have chemotherapy in Oakland. …
If you’re going to pull a fast one, make it a whopper.
I’m not talking about the type of stunt I tried in eighth grade, when instead of merely making up a book report on something …
If anything good can come out of the nationwide hypochondria of swine-flu panic, it’s that the notion that if you’re sick, you should stay home finally could gain some traction.
The governor of California said it.
The …
The latest study from the files of “Why Can’t I Find Work Like This”: Hayfever puts stress on relationships, for reasons ranging from keeping partners awake with snoring, difficulty kissing, lower sex …
If a tree falls in a dead-red county and takes out a health-care program that sees almost a quarter million visits a year, would anyone hear it? Would anyone notice before hospital emergency rooms become …
If there were a medication that would make you forget downing one too many at the company holiday dinner and laying one on the boss’s better half, would you take it? Would you slip it …
When we last left Pulmicort, the asthma medicine popular for children was about to become a generic after Israeli company Teva Pharmaceuticals got permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce it. British …
If a conspiracy falls in the forest and everyone within a country mile hears it, are big companies still guilty of cheating the public?
The Federal Trade Commission thinks so. It joined California Attorney General Jerry …
I don’t know which scared me more the day I swerved my Ford Escort off the freeway just in time to see the engine ignite: The flames shooting from the hood or my stepdad’s predictable …
I was one of those parents today. The kind the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gets verklempt about every autumn as it considers, yet again, banning kiddie cold medicine. The kind of heartless momma who …
Yet another health-care situation where there’s plenty of blame to go around, but blame doesn’t matter as much as getting the situation fixed:
About 10 percent of U.S. doctors are thinking about no longer vaccinating privately …
Once in a while, I’ll run across something so confusing I’m not sure who the good guys are.
Like this morning when I saw that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic version of …
There’s often a reason why Big Guy does the seemingly quirky things he does. A reason that makes sense only in his 5-year-old brain, but a reason nonetheless.
I usually don’t question, because if it’s genuinely ...
Parties in the park seem to be the rage around here of late – a rage that will be over by the time Big Guy’s birthday rolls around in 103-degree July – and today’s was ...
Oh my goodness!! I am (ashamedly) a thirty-something with Boots’ tendencies toward finger-jabbing and angry accusations...
