Meanwhile, doctors would end up doing without 100% of their payments for Medicare patients unless and until the Senate acts.

What makes the maneuver itself objectionable is the method that would be used. A backdoor tactic, called a budget reconciliation bill, would allow the changes to be enacted without opening the subject to a filibuster on the floor… Passing action via budget reconciliation commits this nation’s government to addressing the matter… while allowing for amendment in times to come…. Nine hundred billion dollars divided by thirty million people is $30,000 per person. That’s a lot of health care insurance premiums!

Prohibiting coverage based on pre-existing conditions will just mean the public pays for a more severe version when the patient is forced to turn to public assistance to remedy the condition.

With healthcare reform legislation pending, and the government indicating that they’ll be shaving money off the prices they’ll pay for all things Healthcare, it shouldn’t really have been much of a surprise to see drug manufacturers raising the prices.  After all, if they raise them now, they won’t be amongst those to suffer or have [...]

We must all do what we can to take heath care reform in hand. Where costs can be cut without compromising patient safety, we must do so. If a bad outcome is the cause of our loss and grieving, we must stop trying to place blame on those who tried to prevent that loss. If someone is aware of an insurance scam and certain that it is a scam, then turn that scammer in!

Nearly five billion dollars in profits during the year that they say they lost as much as 1/3 of their customers, and WellPoint still wants a rate increase?