“If a bill passed Friday by the Florida House of Representatives becomes law, state employees, including multimillionaire Gov. Rick Scott, would continue paying prices as low as $8.34 per month for individual health insurance or $30 for their families … [but] the Florida legislature in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘health care’
May 20th, 2015 - 3:24 pm § in Politics
It’s amazing what happens when dittoheads think about what they’re supporting
“Luis Lang, who is currently crowdfunding for medical expenses that he can’t afford because he didn’t sign up for insurance under Obamacare, has become a viral sensation. However, the 49-year-old South Carolina resident says he doesn’t want to be the poster child for the Republican Part[...]
RUSSIA: Ending One’s Life in a Terrible Place
Russia Russian cancer patients keep killing themselves They’re killing themselves in an alarming trend that’s plagued the country since at least last year. And judging by recent reports, it won’t end anytime soon. I would hope that this huts home for the Tea Party folks wyho wantr corporate [...]
April 14th, 2015 - 6:33 pm § in Religion
What if a patient dies because a pharmacy refuses to fill a doctor’s prescription for religious reasons?
First of all, I would ask, what kind of religion is that??? But this is where so-called “religious freedom” laws could take us. Think that’s a fantasy? “When Brittany Cartrett lost her pregnancy in March, her doctor prescribed Misoprostol to help her complete the miscarriage.[...]
February 6th, 2015 - 11:41 pm § in Uncategorized
Washington’s vaccination rates aren’t all that great
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February 5th, 2015 - 4:11 pm § in Uncategorized
Radical Republicans
The Right-Wing Defense of Anti-Vaxxers Brian Tashman for Right Wing Watch Published February 4, 2015 – 8:12am Last year, when Glenn Beck learned that outbreaks of diseases like whooping cough and measles were on the rise due to an increasing number of parents who are refusing to have their chi[...]
January 30th, 2015 - 11:46 am § in Politics
GOP insiders quietly admit their party has nothing to replace Obamacare
If the Supreme Court guts Obamacare this term, Republicans have nothing to replace it. This is hardly shocking as the GOP did nothing about America’s escalating health care crisis during their 30 years in power that began with Reagan’s election in 1980. And GOP electeds are loathe to adm[...]
January 1st, 2015 - 11:02 am § in Misc.
US Healthcare
British woman who had baby 11 weeks early stranded in US with £130,000 medical bill British couple Katie Amos and Lee Johnston have been told by doctors they cannot fly back to Britain until March[...]
November 21st, 2014 - 3:58 pm § in America
I’ll Bet She Now Prefers Canada’s Health Insurance To Ours
A pregnant Canadian woman had her baby while visiting the U.S. and got stuck with a $950,000 hospital bill (you read that right). And yes, she bought American health insurance prior to her trip — Blue Cross, to be exact — and yes, they refused to pay. http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/million[...]
November 13th, 2014 - 5:56 pm § in Misc.
Raise Your Hand If You Love Your Capitalist Health Care
Of course, it’s a trick question, because no one in America has capitalist health care. Capitalism assumes free markets, competition, and free choice. None of those things exist in American health care. Just ask Megan Rothbauer. She was unconscious when an ambulance crew took her to an o[...]