All posts tagged u.s. healthcare

Health Care Ruling Roundup : Early Responses

As many long time readers know, I’ve been a proponent of healthcare reform for many years. Today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that the majority of the Affordable Care Act is constitutional means that my daughters will have more options for healthcare; they will have, as all U.S. citizens will, the option to shop around for insurance. This ability to pick and choose a healthcare plan is the same Read More...

This is why I voted Democrat in 2008

You can find a “Patient’s Bill of Rights” here. Here it is in its entirety: “Starting in September, some of the worst abuses will be banned forever. No more discriminating against children with pre-existing conditions. No more retroactively dropping somebody’s policy when they get sick if they made an unintentional mistake on an application. No more lifetime limits or restrictive annual limits on coverage. Those days are over.” – PRESIDENT Read More...

Reason #7,345,987 Why Health Insurance Reform is a Good Thing

This makes me sick: WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients Disgusting: The women all paid their premiums on time. Before they fell ill, none had any problems with their insurance. Initially, they believed their policies had been canceled by mistake. They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every other policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The software triggered an immediate fraud Read More...

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