Health Reform and Election Day-Make Your Vote Count

Posted by barbarahales

This article, written by Jane M.Orient, M.D., is an important one to read and consider as we approach Election Day.  Our votes do make a difference in future outcomes and it is incumbent upon us to choose the person that will best represent our views. Healthcare Reform and the Election: Money, Power, and Death By: [...]

Un-insurance for Everyone

Posted by barbarahales

This was found in the editorials of IBD this past week and shares my sentiments. It is an eyeful of things to come in the health arena. Bleak Prognosis Health Care: The more we know about ObamaCare, the more we find out it wasn’t designed to cut costs but to eventually eliminate private insurance coverage [...]

Health Insurance Price Hikes

Posted by barbarahales

The American Medical Association sponsored a study of health insurance premiums and blames the rise on market control by a few, large  insurance companies. Republicans propose to allow the public to buy insurance coverage across state lines in order to expand competition.  Critics believe that this would foster a loss of state oversight but supporters [...]

Health Insurance Companies Defended by “Max Profit”

Posted by barbarahales

Using the concepts that humor is the best form of medicine and a little humor makes the distasteful more palatable, an unusual bunch of protesters gathered in front of the Ritz Carlton, Washington D.C. Attired in evening gowns and suits, this group claimed to be part of “Billionaires for Wealth Care” and held up signs [...]

Passion for Healthcare Reform but also Passion for Protecting Our Constitutional Rights

Posted by barbarahales

The following is a letter for Blue Dog Democrats that was made by and circulated by members of Individuals United for Freedom, a group who feels passionately about protecting our Constitutional rights and puts their point of view over in a respectful but assertive manner. There are many excellent points made in this letter.  I [...]