health insurance

Throw in the Towel or Just Throw Up

by Admin 09.01.2009

All summer long I’ve been turning myself into an expert on health care reform. I always knew more about health care in the USA than most, because I did the public relations for the first HMO in Arizona and then went on to make health care a big segment of my company”s client roster. So [...]

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Time to be Freaked Out About the Direction of Health Care Reform

by Admin 05.25.2009

OK. I’m officially freaked out by what is happening around health care reform after watching Bill Moyers’ Journal. Single payer, which was implemented successfully by every other developed country in the world, has been dismissed as “too disruptive.” Instead, we are going to get some hodge-podge combo that will neither lower costs nor decrease paperwork [...]

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Frank Luntz is Back with Doublespeak About Health Care Reform

by Admin 05.08.2009

Senator Merkin from Oregon wrote a piece in the Huffington Post yesterday that deserves your attention. You have to be concerned enough to remember when Frank Luntz, noted Republican pollster, drove all honest people crazy by turning English into Doublespeak and twisting words so they didn’t mean what we thought they did. Sen. Merkin says [...]

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Not a Woman’s Problem or a Man’s Problem

by Admin 04.16.2009

I’ve just read a Huffington Post article on the issues surrounding women’s health and what’s needed in health care reform. The author pointed to the fact that nearly one in five women lacks health insurance, and therefore delays care. The article, of course, is meant to draw the attention of the Obama administration to the [...]

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