Posts tagged as Health Care
McDonald's Denies, Confirms It'll Drop Health Insurance for 30,000 Workers
Fast food may not be heroin (oy!) but working in fast food sure will screw you up if you ever require basic medical treatment. Now McDonald's says it "won't" drop its meager health insurance for 30,000 hourly workers but it also then said that probably "we're going to have to look for alternatives."
Alex Chilton Died For Our Sins
From a piece about Alex Chilton's life as a New Orleanian: "At least twice in the week before his fatal heart attack, Chilton experienced shortness of breath and chills while cutting grass. But he did not seek medical attention, [his wife Laura] Kersting said, in part because he had no health insurance."
Health Care Reform: Job Killer?
Our nation's employees are already starting to feel the effects of Obamacare-right in the paycheck! Or so says a supposed dermatologist who claims to have fired an employee who voted for the President. Posting to the TexAgs.com message board-apparently a forum for a group of people who weren't smart enough to get into UT-someone calling himself "dermdoc" bragged about relieving an employee of his or her livelihood because of the choice they made in the 2008 presidential election. "Laid off my first Obama voting employee today," boasted the poster. READ MORE
Insurance Companies Will Move The Country To The Left
After all the acrimony and strife that surrounded the passage of the health care bill, it is nice to see that the insurance companies are doing their part to help galvanize the public to support further reform.
So There Was Some Kind Of Health Care Thing That Happened Last Night
It's strange to watch history being made. Prior to yesterday's passage of the health care reform bill I think the most significant legislation in my lifetime may have been the Americans with Disabilities Act, and I don't recall scrambling to the TV set to watch the roll call on C-Span. But there we were last night, after nearly a year and a half of invective, fear-mongering, hostility and the rest of it, encapsulated into a weekend where a prominent gay legislator was the recipient of anti-homosexual taunts and a genuine hero of the American civil rights movement was shouted at with a word that most publications refuse to print because it is so offensive and historically loaded. And then one congressman called another congressman-a congressman so intent on making sure that American women not have full access or control over their bodies that he demanded and received executive order as part of the price for his support of the bill-a "babykiller." It really makes you proud to be American. READ MORE
Words No Longer Mean Anything
"In addition to these legal issues, one group will be hit especially hard – our senior citizens. Always the wisest folks, seniors have been against this bill from the beginning. And for good reason. Obamacare cuts a half-trillion dollars in health care for seniors to lay the foundation for socialized medicine." READ MORE
After Bargaining and Acceptance Come Home Surgery
Americans are comparison-shopping for emergency room services, because we are smart. For instance! "When Heather Staples' 6-year-old daughter, Sophia, fell and cut her eyebrow, Staples knew her daughter might need stitches. But instead of running straight to an emergency room, Staples took a few minutes to compare prices at nearby emergency rooms." She saved $500, therefore only paying $1200 for some needle and thread. We all know where this is going. Seriously you lazy woman, get a fish hook and some plastic thread and sew that little klutz up yourself.
Real America, with Abe Sauer: If You Don't Support Health Care Reform, You Don't Support the Troops
This is a check for $20. You may click on it to see it larger. The check itself, that is, not its amount-it will still be worth just $20. What this $20 check represents to health care reform, however, is incalculable. Although maybe not for long. READ MORE
Tri-Corner Hatted Douchebags Will Say Anything To Kill Health Care
A Democratic Senate aide seems skeptical about the chances of a bipartisan approach to health care reform: "Imagine we introduce a bill that says health insurance companies can't discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. All that would happen is the insurance industry would pay some firm to do a study that concludes that would cause insurance companies to go out of business, and some GOP senator will go to the floor and say 'See? This is all about forcing single payer.' Throw in some douchebag on TV with a tri-cornered hat and a chalkboard, and you have a unified GOP caucus against any bill that remotely attempts to deal with the health care issue."
Asking For Common Sense And Mettle Might Be Asking Too Much
Jonathan Cohn's letter to "Nervous and Frustrated" House Democrats is worth reading.
