Tag: Healthcare reform

I have been a rather vocal proponent of single payer universal health care for all Americans. And I think that Senator Bernie Sanders has been detrimental in using the term Medicare For All when Medicare isn’t the best answer to America’s continued health care crisis. Americans need and deserve a…

Recently all of the major credit bureaus said that they were changing the way that they treat medical debt, both long term and short term, so that it will no longer be a drag on an individual credit rating. They realize that not being able to pay for expensive private…

I am not going to dig too deep into this topic today, but after my recent experience it becomes more and more apparent that we need a universal single payer system and that pricing for health care services is completely out of control. Early in October, I had my second…

First, apologies to those who can’t access the article…JSOnline has this one behind their pay wall: Lake Area Free Clinic saw the need for better access to dental care — and did something about it. But I am going to quote as much of it as I can…that I deem…

When I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis three years ago, the hardest part wasn’t the partial blindness, the loss of bladder control, or having to use a walker to get around; it was spending hours each day on the phone dealing with my private insurance company. As anyone with…

Time for real health care reform…

Yesterday I wrote about the ruling by U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson striking down the individual mandate provision of the health care reform legislation passed by Democrats and signed into law by President Barack Obama. Predictably, Republicans were quick to laud the decision, but today I thought we all could…

Yesterday U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson struck down the individual mandate provision of the health care reform legislation passed by Democrats and signed into law by President Barack Obama. The mandate would have required Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty. Here’s some of what Hudson…

Obviously I agree with the New York Times on this one, or I wouldn’t bother re-posting it here. But the vacuous campaign being run by Mr. Ron Johnson hasn’t gone unnoticed nationally! When it came to the actual details of governing, Senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat of Wisconsin, trounced his…

The list of hypocrisy and lack of understanding any real issue, seemingly shows up every time Ron Johnson speaks. Which is why RoJo has been in hiding. Even though he has had some DOOZIES, his biggest one might be his stance on health care. He came out early, calling the…