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Barack Obama's health plan takes shape Source

The writer of that piece, David Grazter, has a history of distorting opinions to suit his own political agenda. Mediamatters reported on how an op-ed piece of his falsely suggested that Canadian orthopedic surgeon Dr. Brian Day, a former president o...

I thought so too.

And now, for some health care reform humor, with charts! Courtesy of Ezra Klein from the WaPo. John Boehner's office tries to make the House Dems' plan look really scary, via chart! (click for larger version) Here's the Dems' response to Boehner'...

Here you go: Side-by-side comparison of major health care reform proposals

U.S. Health Spending Breaks From the Pack The U.S. is the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal health care, and it spends a much higher percentage of its GDP, and much more per person, on health care than its peers. Since 1980, the...

The former CIGNA exec, Wendell Porter, was on Bill Moyer's Journal recently. You can watch the video of the interview on the PBS site. From the transcript: On why he started speaking out: On Michael Moore's "Sicko": On a public plan:

Interview with a former health insurance company exec Full interview at Columbia Journalism Review (Trudy Lieberman = interviewer; WP = Wendell Porter, former CIGNA head of corporate communications) TL: How do companies manipulate the medical loss ...

Health reform would be expensive. So would no health reform Source

Anti-public plan Sen. DeMint inadvertently concedes that public plan won't take over the market (source)

A Kaiser Foundation study found that many American companies do not offer health insurance to employees. Very small companies in particular are especially unlikely to provide such benefits: Even those that do provide benefits, of course, generally ...

CDC: Private health care coverage at 50-year-low

Hopefully, this will be a useful catch-all thread instead of starting a new thread for every new article! A Day in the Life of a Primary Care Physician: Prior Authorizations, Denials, and Delays in Treatment by Dr. Aaron Fox ========Dear AMA: I Qui...

Getting a second opinion on healthcare reform: There are voices besides the AMA LA Times

New Report: Private Insurance Mergers Lead to Near-Monopolies Across the Country Full article here

who's afraid of public insurance? full article at national journal the writer discusses several recent surveys and polls showing high support for a public option - check out the consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems survey he mentio...

We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry by Sen. Bernie Sanders (a real health care reformer)

Even those with health insurance are going broke Full article at Seattle Times

GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included Source: Salon Remember the House Republicans' alternative budget plan where the only numbers were the page numbers? Well, they've done it again! You can read the proposal here (pdf file).

Yet, they are adamant about not letting the government compete in a free market by offering a public option as an alternative to the private insurance companies.

Has anyone from the anti-reform side defended the practices of the health insurance companies? I'd like to see what kind of rationale they come up with to justify denying insurance, denying claims, canceling policies, etc.

Oooh, Socialism!! Scary! Reminds of these Daily Show with Jon Stewart reports: [/url] The Stockholm Syndrome Pt. 1 Wyatt Cenac travels to Sweden to wake up their hauntingly thin citizens from their socialist nightmare. The Stockholm Syndrome ...

Health Care Stories for America A new site launched last week as a counterbalance to claims that the administration's agenda for health care reform will create a government-run bureaucracy that will make you wait in line for a doctor.

Sorry you got your Stossel bubble burst....

He was asked, "If you believe that consumer reporting works, and is a better regulator than regulation or lawsuits, why did you stop doing it?" His reply: "I got sick of it. I also now make so much money I just lost interest in saving a buck on a can...