The Next Time ...

I need a medical scan done of my body, maybe I should go to the airport! They're free there! LOL.

TSA Fracas

Too Big To Nail?

Here is just another example of why any company doing business in health care should not be operating as a for profit business.

Pfizer: Too Big To Nail

Rural Doctors

This is the side of health care you normally don't hear about, unless you happen to watch it on PBS.

Why The U.S. Faces A Shortage of Rural Physicians

You see, in our health care system, med students who go into Primary Care practice actually take a pay cut compared to those going into specialty areas of medicine. This is why so many med students are graduating to become specialists and almost none are going into Primary Care. After the cost of med school for Primary Care, it takes longer to pay for med school student loans, plus be able to handle the financial burdens of having an office staff, plus the added expense of malpractice insurance. This is also why you see so many doctors who share their practices.

The discounted rates demanded by Medicare have put a lot of doctors out of work, because they can no longer afford to run a practice anymore. The cost of malpractice insurance alone as forced a lot of OB/GYN specialists to leave that field of practice.

Health Care Issues In Small Business America

The Latest Joke In Health Insurance Reform

is actually on the Heath Insurance Industry. And yes, this laughing is for real. I love it when U.S. Senators get ticked off, and that's exactly what has happened. Health Insurance companies and their lobbyists have been spending big money to get the ear of Congress to take not only Single Payer off the table, but also the compromised start of the negotiations - a public plan paid for through Medicare. Okay, they've gotten their wish.

Now, because some of the language is starting to get "soft" on the law to make health insurance coverage mandatory for all U.S. Citizens, the Health Insurance companies are coming out with one "study" after another telling the public that their rates are going to go up if they don't get their way.

Senator Chuck Schumer has answered their response with one of his own: by calling on Congress to repeal the law made in 1945 to make Health Insurance Companies exempt from Anti Trust Laws. This is why you haven't seen much by way of real competition within this market, certainly not like you see with car insurance.

I LOVE THIS!!!!

Read it for yourself: Senator Chuck Schumer

The Truth About The "Death Panels"

The ridiculous notion that the government is going to create a death panel is incorrect. The idea that they will ration care is also false. But, then again, if you have ever had to deal with insurance companies denying coverage for anything (I have), you already know your health care is rationed - not by the government, but by insurance companies who are responding to their Wall Street investors. When are people going to wake up to the fact that health insurance should be non-profit?

The Health Insurers Have Already Won

You have to read this article from BusinessWeek:

The Health Insurers Have Already Won

A New Look On Health Care,

Health Care Reform, and the lengths that some well known companies will go to in order to keep you from knowing the truth. These are from The Bill Moyers Journal and can be found here:

Health Care Reform

And here: (this part would not fit as an embedded video, but it's the part you're going to want to see)

Wendell Potter