US ranked worst healthcare system, while the NHS is the best An analysis of 11 wealthy nations, including Australia and Canada, has found that the US healthcare system is the worst, particularly for fair and easy access NEWSCIENTIST.COM[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obamacare’
July 11th, 2017 - 10:26 pm § in Donald Trump
Oops. Trump Just Invented Socialized Medicine
Trumpcare Is Like Obamacare, but Even Worse The GOP health plan tacitly accepts Obamacare’s central premise: that governments should micromanage insurance markets.[...]
July 7th, 2017 - 11:29 am § in Donald Trump
New GOP Holdout on Repeal of Obamacare
Unlikely Holdout Underscores Challenge for Senate Health Bill At a constituent meeting in Kansas, a state President Trump won by 20 points, Senator Jerry Moran faced probing questions about the bill — and had some of his… NYTIMES.COM[...]
June 27th, 2017 - 12:07 pm § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
Breaking News: McConnell Delays Trumpcare Vote
Senate GOP Leaders Push Off Health Care Vote Until After July 4th Facing opposition within their own ranks, Senate Republicans delayed a vote on the bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act until after next week’s recess. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) postponed a vote on t[...]
Looks Like Trumpcare Is In Trouble
Four conservative U.S. Republican senators said on Thursday they are not prepared to vote for the Senate Republican healthcare proposal unveiled on Thursday when it comes to the floor, probably next week. This is likely just the beginning. There will be other GOP Senators who will refuse because Tru[...]
May 16th, 2017 - 12:55 am § in Misc.
How Norway Pays for Healthcare
Knut Robert Knutsen Healthcare (in Norway) is nationalized, but the details are a bit nuanced. Well, a portion of our paycheck goes to the “welfare fund”, and there’s an employer portion on top of that. It’s based primarily on the Bismarck Socialism model where the employee c[...]
May 8th, 2017 - 10:54 am § in Donald Trump
Comment by SMS: TRUMPCARE
TRUMPCARE will 1. restore funding to Medicaid. 2. restore funding for prescriptions, likely with some option for insurance companies to negotiate prices. 3. eliminate mandatory enrollment, Replace this with some subterfuge that looks like it is different. 4. provide real funding for high risk poo[...]
May 5th, 2017 - 7:36 am § in Misc.
The GOP: “What we need is more Jesus care”
GOP tries to make Jesus proud by kicking poor and sick people off health insurance. No hearings, no expert analysis, no CBO scoring, just more poverty and death. They’re ‘pro life’ in the same way I’m ‘too thin’. Looking forward to 2018 Democratic ads with t[...]
May 1st, 2017 - 9:14 am § in Uncategorized
Will California Go Single Payer?
California Health Care Bill As California legislature considers a single payer bill based on Medicare, millions are being spent lobbying against the effort to use the huge California economy as a test bed for the long-sought goal. Progressive groups now hope that California lawmakers will pass a[...]
Why the GOP proposal for healthcare is nonsense .. and why no one will do anything about it.
The real issue in REPEAL AND REPLACE is that the meme is pure nonsense. All the fixes either party could build will fail until they address the real issue … the superinflation of healthcare costs in the US. For example, some GOP types want a national insurance exchange. The most obvious re[...]