Warren Brown has covered the car industry for The Washington Post since 1982.
"Union health insurance adds $1500 to the cost of a new car." -Warren Brown[...]
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Showing posts with label health_insurance. Show all posts
John Edwards tonight cited the case of a 17-year-old California girl who died after her insurance company refused coverage on a liver transplant to save her life as a call to action to change the current system of healthcare in America. [...]
Saul Friedman explains-
All these members of Congress, who earn $185,000 a year and have taxpayer-subsidized health insurance that will last the rest of their lives.
Virtually every presidential candidate would solve the crisis of the 47 million medically uninsured Americans with "individual mandates," requiring that they buy private health insurance just as they must buy auto insurance if they drive.
Democrats would subsidize part of the cost, while Republicans would grant tax credits.
But if the private insurance market is so wonderful and effective, wouldn't it have solved the nation's health care mess by now?[...]
The America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health-benefit providers, pegged the average premium cost at
$2,268 for a single person, and $4,424 for a family of three.
The numbers are enough to scare you sick.
Some 60% of companies now offer health benefits, down from 69% in 2000, according to the 2007 annual health benefits survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Small businesses are even less generous: Just 45% of companies with three to nine workers offer health benefits. Total number of uninsured Americans: roughly 47 million, or 16% of the U.S. population.[...]
INSURANCE FOR ALL IN UTAH?
Imagine a Utah where everyone has health insurance.
Coverage would be purchased from the private market, but at affordable prices. Benefits would encourage consumers to adopt healthier lifestyles without skimping on medical care. No one, not even the poorest families, would be denied basic care.
Such are the promises delivered in a blueprint for health-care reform quietly authored by a think tank of 130 Utah business leaders and backed by economic and health advisers to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. [...]
Imagine a Utah where everyone has health insurance.
Coverage would be purchased from the private market, but at affordable prices. Benefits would encourage consumers to adopt healthier lifestyles without skimping on medical care. No one, not even the poorest families, would be denied basic care.
Such are the promises delivered in a blueprint for health-care reform quietly authored by a think tank of 130 Utah business leaders and backed by economic and health advisers to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. [...]
HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA
Back in July, while trying to justify his opposition to expanding government health care coverage for children, President Bush made a telling comment. The uninsured, he said, "have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."[...]
Back in July, while trying to justify his opposition to expanding government health care coverage for children, President Bush made a telling comment. The uninsured, he said, "have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."[...]
MEDICAL INSURANCE
Opportunistic politicians want you to believe that the government must save you from the evil medical industry. If the greedy doctors and nurses didn't want to be adequately reimbursed for the years of medical training, the insurance companies wouldn't even be needed. After all fifty years ago medical insurance was a rarity. But today medical insurance is a necessity.
True medical costs have been increasing but so have all the wonderful drugs and medical devices that save and prolong life. But an unspoken element of medical costs is the medical malpractice insurance that the doctors and hospitals must carry. Without malpractice insurance medical practitioners could lose their life savings.
John Edwards, Democrat presidential candidate, made his fortune suing medical practitioners. One such trial, Edwards made a psychic connection to sway the jury. Such despicable conduct is common in lawsuits.[...]
Opportunistic politicians want you to believe that the government must save you from the evil medical industry. If the greedy doctors and nurses didn't want to be adequately reimbursed for the years of medical training, the insurance companies wouldn't even be needed. After all fifty years ago medical insurance was a rarity. But today medical insurance is a necessity.
True medical costs have been increasing but so have all the wonderful drugs and medical devices that save and prolong life. But an unspoken element of medical costs is the medical malpractice insurance that the doctors and hospitals must carry. Without malpractice insurance medical practitioners could lose their life savings.
John Edwards, Democrat presidential candidate, made his fortune suing medical practitioners. One such trial, Edwards made a psychic connection to sway the jury. Such despicable conduct is common in lawsuits.[...]
CHILDREN HEALTH INSURANCE
Right down to the wire, the battle over children's health care is burning in Washington.
Earlier this year, lawmakers thought it would be easy to reauthorize legislation extending medical coverage to millions of needy children. But the fight has been brutal.
Why? After years of being a third rail of American politics, health-care reform is back on the national agenda, raising the issue's political profile.[...]
Right down to the wire, the battle over children's health care is burning in Washington.
Earlier this year, lawmakers thought it would be easy to reauthorize legislation extending medical coverage to millions of needy children. But the fight has been brutal.
Why? After years of being a third rail of American politics, health-care reform is back on the national agenda, raising the issue's political profile.[...]
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