The reality too is that the CEO of Aetna earns 24 million a year, taken from those profits, Cigna's CEO takes home 30 million a year see a great table from the same link.showing profits in the billion-plus zone and CEO salaries Health … [Read more...]
WE WAS ROBBED – Thousands of Million dollar plus bonuses given out by banks in 2009 – with POLL!
What kind of care: Well, read the transcript at the link. Samples include infected and oozing ears, root canals, enlarged gallbladders ready to explode, abscessed teeth...all done in a fair ground. Who is providing the care? RAM or … [Read more...]
13.6 Million going to waste and Lives lost Isn’t it reason enough?
The statistics are all to clear that we have the lowest rate of seat belt use and as a result one of the highest care fatality rates because of no seat belts why just last night on route 99 in Everett a joy riding speeder slammed into the … [Read more...]
Health insurers: It’s not fair — we can’t compete!
Isn't the health insurance industry basically making our own case for us when they say stuff like this?“There’s no way to run a side-by-side competition within the current structure,” said Karen Ignagni, the chief … [Read more...]
MA health care still standing
After months of negotiations, the federal health care waiver that keeps our health care law afloat has been finalized. We get 10.6 billion over three years. Everyone seems pretty happy about the result; at the very least, in the midst of … [Read more...]
NY Times calls MA health care successful
Good news/bad news on the health care front ... mostly good. In Massachusetts, we've now got the lowest percentage in the country of those without health insurance. Saturday's NY Times had an op-ed praising the progress of the … [Read more...]
Sopranos star goes public about his mental illness, and creates a foundation to fight the stigma
Joe Pantoliano says: "Why is it I'm discriminated against when I take the anti-depressants, but not when I take the Lipitor? The culture is OK with me taking an erectile dysfunction remedy, but not with the (anti-depressants)," said … [Read more...]
About the Mandatory Health “insurance”
Your medical records WILL be used against you. http://www.docudharma.com/show... The Illuminati Plan to Destroy America. … [Read more...]
A Dissenting View on SCHIP
SCHIP is a federally funded, but state administered health insurance program for children that was created in 1997. Up to now, it has provided benefits for children in families with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. … [Read more...]
Profiles of uninsured
Globe reporter Alice Dembner has been doing excellent, anecdotal reporting on those likely to be most affected by the state's personal mandate to buy health insurance. One throughline for each of the folks she interviews in this article: … [Read more...]