The Warm Up
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVB4kq59Sw&eurl[/youtube] “I want health insurance that works as well for the American people as it does for the insurance industry.” —President Barack Obama
Category: health care
Sen. Inhofe: They’re Coming To Take You Away
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe announced this week that he won’t even read let alone sign whatever health care reform bill emerges from the Senate. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) has told a town hall meeting that he doesn’t need to read legislation on healthcare reform or to know any details of what’s in it, he will oppose it out of hand. …
The Real Death Panels
From The California Nurses Association: California’s Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims PacifiCare’s Denials 40%, Cigna’s 33% in First Half of 2009 More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient’s physician, are rejected by California’s largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily …
Vet Death Manual
Rethug Propaganda Minister Michael Steele on the Chapiquidic News Network warning about a death manual for veterans (originally prepared by the Bush Administration): If you want an example of bad public policy, just look at the situation with our veterans, when you have a manual out there telling our veterans, you know, stuff like “are you really of value to …
Financing Rethug Health Care Reform
This is hard to watch. An Oklahoma woman whose husband has traumatic brain injury is kicked out of a hospital and she has no way to care for him. She goes to a town hall meeting run by her Rethughlican senator, Tom Coburn, who’s also a doctor for crissakes, and desperately pleads her case. The first words that come out …
The Irrational Rationing Of Health Care
Three years ago I had a mild stroke and was admitted to an LA County hospital emergency room. The only place to park my bod was in the waiting room. Initially there wasn’t a single chair available. Finally, someone got up and I grabbed it, exhausted. I turned and looked down the hallway towards the actual ER. It was lined with gurneys on either side occupied by patients in various states of disrepair, reminding me of a movie about a train crash with dozens of injured passengers stacked up waiting to be triaged.
