States Experiment with Your Healthcare

Posted by barbarahales

Today This article is written  by Terry O’Keefe: Letting the states decide healthcare reform The State of Vermont just passed the nation’s first single-payer universal healthcare system. While there are still some bureaucratic hurdles to cross, Vermont will soon install the kind of system that healthcare progressives have been drooling about for decades. And whether you [...]

Congress and Citizens Should Share the Same Healthcare Policies

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The following article entitled “Should Congressmen Turn Down Health Insurance? ” was written by Grace-Marie Turner and echoes sentiment that I have discussed in my past blogs. The brouhaha over liberals demanding that members of Congress turn down their congressional health insurance if they campaigned against Obamacare is misguided, but it does provide a teaching opportunity [...]

Health Care in Switzerland Can Be Beneficially Transported

Posted by barbarahales

Switzerland provides universal health care for its citizens without a public option.  A very attractive facet of this care that allows the program feasibility is that the insurance companies do not make obscene profits and pharmaceuticals are regulated. It is time to divert the burden from the taxpayers of the United States to insurance companies [...]

Republicans Late to Policy and Perception

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It seems to me, like most Americans, that the passage of the Health Care Bill is a fait accompli. So, as I wrote in my blog yesterday,  it was quite a surprise to find a survey mailed out by the Republicans. They asked  if the public is concerned about the Health Care Bill in general [...]