Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Round peg, square hole, health care edition

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So Aetna is pulling out of Obamacare exchanges because the Department of Justice wouldn't approve of their merger with fellow healthcare...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

My religion is more important than your health

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When the US Supreme Court released its decision in   Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. yesterday it pointed out yet another flaw in the d...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

The gospel of the corporate church

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On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest challenge to President Obama's tragically flawed Affordable Care Act . T...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Using Jesus to deny healthcare benefits

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Last week Hobby Lobby pointed out the most basic flaw in the overhaul of our health care regime . For those of y'all who don't know,...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Supreme Court upholds insurance industry bailout

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Okay, people, it would appear that the world survived yesterday's Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. Of course you coul...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The economics of choice

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the second day of oral arguments regarding the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Does more of the same make any sense?

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I heard portions of a Mitt Romney speech the other morning in which he urged folks to vote for him to put an end to the health care bill sig...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Book review: Deadly Spin

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Wendell Potter was the chief PR flak for CIGNA until May 2008 when he walked away. He helped coordinate the health insurance industry's...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Book review: Deadly Monopolies

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I just finished reading  medical ethicist Harriet Washington 's latest book Deadly Monopolies , a look into the world of the pharmaceuti...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

County proposes plan to ration health care in case of emergency

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If you're unhappy about the way your insurance company likes to question your doctor about the appropriate treatment for whatever ails y...