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Health care reform passes big hurdle - Zombies take to the streets
WASHINGTON - By the skin of their teeth, Senate Democrats voted to begin formal debate on the Health Care Reform bill that would guarantee medical coverage for nearly all Americans. All Senate Republicans voted to shelve the bill. Seconds after the ...
Health Insurance - The Cheap Rider Problem
I'm a freelancer and pay for my own health insurance. Since I'm (relatively) young and healthy, and since I rarely see a doctor more than once a year, I have a fairly inexpensive plan with a pretty high deductible. Stupid question: If the House healt...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Leukemia - A Call to African-Americans, minorities to join Bone Marrow Registry
(Note: When I learned that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has leukemia, I was terribly saddened. Because I remember my Mother’s battle with the disease (she died of Leukemia on Dec. 30, 2008). And as much as that, I know that for an African-American and othe...
Tougher Americans
When Joseph Hazelwood drunkenly plowed the Exxon Valdez into the rocks in Alaska, spilling millions of gallons of oil and obliterating millions of animals, the nation wept. Being in Alaska at that time, however, I agreed with many Alaskans that it wa...
Oprah Winfrey kills three, injures 21
While I find it difficult to dislike Oprah Winfrey overall, her love of pseudoscience has often grated and seemed dangerous. And now, Oprah’s love of pseudoscience has killed three people and left nearly two dozen others needing serious medical hel...
Corporate Person CIGNA named Obama's new Health Care Reform Czar
WASHINGTON - The Health Insurance Corporate Person CIGNA has accepted the position of "Health Care Reform Czar," White House officials have confirmed. The Corporate Person will take over the job as the Obama Administration gets ready for its final...
Health Care Haiku
In his last post, acanuck noted objections to the length of the health care bills currently sitting in various Congressional committees. I have to say, I do not understand the "Bills Are Too Long" meme being propagated as one major objection to ...
What will we do for the next three weeks?
Compare and contrast. Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter (whose job it is to enact legislation): "I have a fundamental problem with any 1,000-page bills." The Daily Show's Jon Stewart (whose job it is to make us laugh): "I've read the bill." Ste...
102 Hours Later, Articleman Is Cancer Free
I had kidney cancer. Eight months after it was located, three months after doctors correctly diagnosed and explained it to me, and after 102 mostly really grueling and sometimes frightening hours in the hospital, I don't have kidney cancer. And...
Obama Disappoints Again ... Health Care Reform Likely to Lose its Public Option
Boy, what a disappointment. According to published reports, the Obama administration is willing to give up a plan to create a government-run health insurance company - the so-called 'public option' - in order to get some sort of reform passed. Instea...
Articleman Clears Local Death Panel: Surgery, Life Ok With Government
I wanted to let readers know that Articleman is taking a few days off for a surgical procedure. And because I'm probably the first person you know to have a significant surgery since the government instituted death panels, I was really excited to ...
Obama Health Care Town Hall: When Change Meets Shout
Obama is about to hold his first town hall meeting to help sell his health care reform plan. Will it be a more controlled affair than the disasters that have taken place in other similar meetings throughout this great nation of ours? When I saw what ...
Flipping Bad Efficiency Arguments About Cancer
I have been writing recently in this space about overreliance upon efficiency arguments in the analysis of health care reform. In particular, we are told that cancer treatments are simply too expensive, and that efficiency demands a triage approach...
