July 18, 2010 – 6:30 pm
This is just for MassCare. Imagine this on a national level, with the bonus kicker at the end of the first paragraph The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some […]
July 16, 2010 – 10:10 pm
But, hey, don’t worry, none of that information included in your gub’mint required electronic records will ever possibly be stolen, leaked, hacked, messed up, or missused. But, it could be used to make you put down that cupcake, bubble butt New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are […]
July 9, 2010 – 8:27 am
Well, Happy Friday! It seems that ye olde Washington Post is just not down with terming the tanning tax as racist. Remember this article the next time they and the other media go all wonky on a TEA Party gathering, or something similar Mention the new “tan tax” in a major news outlet and cries […]
July 2, 2010 – 9:00 am
Hey, you know that high risk pool ObamaCare mandated, and just started accepting applications Thursday, July 1st? How’s that working out? The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured. Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool […]
July 1, 2010 – 12:38 pm
How’d that work out? About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash. About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If […]
June 28, 2010 – 8:51 am
It’s been awhile since we talked about President Chumps outsourced “historic” legislation. Since it has been passed, there have been stories, but, they have been low key, and tend to be somewhat buried. Like this one Three months after the $940 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama […]
June 15, 2010 – 9:00 am
“If you like your health insurance, yada yada yada” The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant†new burdens […]
June 8, 2010 – 10:00 am
Sadly, expect more and more of this, which goes right along with what the ObamaCare supporters and legislators actually want A Virginia-based insurance company says “considerable uncertainties†created by the Democrats’ health care overhaul will force it to close its doors by the end of the year. The firm, nHealth, appears to be the first […]
June 1, 2010 – 10:45 am
Wait, what was that last part? Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, kicked off a fierce battle with drug companies and […]
May 7, 2010 – 8:10 am
Happy Friday! Here’s an interesting story from yesterday that I just never got around to The great mystery surrounding the historic health care bill is how the corporations that provide coverage for most Americans — coverage they know and prize — will react to the new law’s radically different regime of subsidies, penalties, and taxes. […]
