Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Making Rick Scott the front man for the medical industrial complex’s attack against health care reform is like hiring Dracula to head a Red Cross blood drive. Scott is the former Columbia/HCA CEO whose company was fined, between 2000-2002, a record $1.7 billion for overbilling state and federal government health plans. …
Democrats settle into the job they know best Dems never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity (see, e.g., healthcare). Rethugs never miss an opportunity to bully Dems into missing an opportunity. And the circle of life goes merily along… UPDATE: Apology to House Dems: While the Senate has cowered from the debate over a public option in the face …
Truth in advertising from the Medical Industrial Complex Bob Cesca at HuffPo, in his post The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves a Good Screwing recounts his personal experience of losing his family’s medical insurance after his provider, without cause, raised their premium threefold overnight; and makes the case for a public option. Atul Gawande of The New Yorker provides a clue …
