The situation at Grady Hospital in Atlanta of cutting off dialysis for poor patients without insurance (which will make them, um, die) is an echo of the national political farse of throwing out public option health insurance and throwing more good money after bad (Karen Ignagni and her group of health insurance criminals). I [...]
Our friend Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) came out with the bill that we had long been anticipating that Judas traitor and bed partner of healthcare industry “stakeholders” would come out with, namely dumping public option healthcare insurance and eliminating the chance that the government could negotiate prices of prescription medications. His plan calls for an [...]
President Barack Obama basically gave away the farm today when he indicated that he was open to giving up the public option for healthcare insurance, saying that he would not “draw a line in the sand” over the issue. Rahm Emanuel was quoted as saying:
President Barack Obama adressed the American Medican Association (AMA) today and stated that he was not gonna try and split up doctors from their patients or cut off their insurance plans if they liked them. You can read the entire transcript of his speech here. Obama is argued that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed healthcare reform in the past
The lobby for hospitals, the American Hospital Association (AHA) headed by Richard Umbdenstock, contacted heads of hospitals across the land and urged them to “push back” against President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform. Obama decided that he could come up with part of the one trillion dollars he will need over the next decade to pay for healthcare for all by cutting payments to hospitals by 200 billion dollars.
An article in the New Yorker called The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande MD has gotten the attention of the current administration in Washington. The news that McAllen TX had the most expensive healthcare in the country as measured by Medicare expenditure per capita
President Barack Obama has decided to take a more hands on approach to healthcare reform, with plans for speeches, town hall meetings, and direct meetings with legislators, instead of sitting back and waiting for Congress to mess things up. That might be a good thing,
