What next? Poor houses? State soup lines to replace food stamps? Nikki Haley rejected federal funds for poor folks .. “Medicaid” … but wants to bail out hospitals that will lose funding they would have gotten from Obamacare. She has increased payments to hospitals[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obamacare’
January 21st, 2014 - 4:04 pm § in The Ave Scene
Of Harborview and Obamacare
Sam R Sharar, UW Faculty Sam was kind enough to let me post this here. I strongly urge anyone interested in healthcare to read the thoughtful message. He raises a number of issues that are all to easy to neglect while the far right kvells over their horror about Obamacare, the too comfortable empl[...]
January 13th, 2014 - 12:25 pm § in The Ave Scene
Why is the UW closing clinics at Harborview?
CROSSCUT: Harborview clinic closures: Can officials be serious? By Abe Bergman, M.D. There is still no clear word on whether the shocking plans for shutting down and moving Harborview’s primary care clinics — women�[...]
January 5th, 2014 - 11:00 am § in Misc.
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: Appears on Faux To Defend FUHCA
“Faux News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Romney what bothered him the most about the Tea Party objections to the Federal Uniform Health Care Act, the grealtry modified version of the Affordable Health Care Act put forward by his predecessor Barak Obama.“It’s not right for�[...]
BARGAINS! Free Condoms!
Living Affected Corporation, one of the groups hired by the federal government to toeducate the public about Obamacare, is giving away free condoms! The Obamacare event took place at the University of Central Arkansas last weekend: The event organizer spilled said, “Ok, if anyone wants [...]
November 17th, 2013 - 11:08 am § in Misc.
Obamacare and the Scams
Jeff Lyles on a list \serv I read has a great comment: The whole idea of the Affordable Care act was to have affordable care. That way you could get Cadillac plans and pay Kia dollars for them. The fact that people want to keep their old plans has nothing to do with that they […][...]
Diabetes: A Business Opportunity for Enterpreneurs
From a Website Devoted to Making Money Off Of Folks With Diabetes The interesting thing about the site is the lack of any mention of expertise! What it does mention is a bit sanctimonious, “Yet despite the potential for profitmaking in a diabetes clinic startup, the field has no tolerance for [...]
November 8th, 2013 - 2:19 pm § in Hypocrisy
How diabetes generates $$$$
Since discovering that I have diabetes several years ago I have been fascinated by the size of the diabetes industry. The incidence of diabetes, both childhood and adult types, is huge .. totaling as much as 1/3 to one half of the population according to some claims. This means that there is a h[...]
August 10th, 2013 - 10:39 am § in America
Single Payer
Reid says Obamacare just a step toward eventual single-payer system[...]
Hypocrisy
Coburn OK’s OPM Director After Staffers Get Obamacare Waiver On Wednesday, immediately after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed ruling that allowed the federal government to subsidize the health insurance premiums of Congressional staffers–even though that may not[...]