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What if We Do Nothing About Health Care Reform?

by francine 03.11.2010

If we do nothing about health care reform:
Up to 17 million more people will be uninsured by 2019 than today.
 
The average family’s health care costs will nearly double by 2020, from $13,000 to $24,000
— meaning they’ll be paying a quarter of their income toward health care costs.
 
Insurers can continue the massive and arbitrary premium rate [...]

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Blocking Health Care Reform is Acting out of Fear

by francine 03.04.2010

I’ve been trying to understand why as a nation, we are so divided about health care reform. You would think every American would be generous enough to think the guy next door deserved decent health care. You would also think we would be embarrassed to have our issues aired in front of all the other [...]

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Health Care Debate Needs a Facilitator

by francine 02.25.2010

I spent most of the day watching the health care summit President Obama held at Blair House today. I’ve drawn only a few new conclusions.
1)The process needs an independent, trained facilitator.  The President isn’t one. He’s in favor of his own proposals; his party has a dog in the hunt. That reduces his credibility. It [...]

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A Glossary of Drug-Related Terms

by francine 02.22.2010

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Medicare Part D is, indeed, a scam. I wasn’t sure until I cross-posted my piece from here on the Huffington Post and read the seventeen comments it got. One of the most interesting was from a pharmacist, who compared what he knew the costs of the prescriptions his dad paid were to what [...]

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