Women, mothers, families and health care reform - clarksvilleonline.com 10/24/2009 Our broken health care system that is. That’s right — it’s not working for many women and their families. In many states, insurance companies can still discriminate on the basis of gender — and not just on costs. In some states, maternity care is not covered because pregnancy can be seen as a “pre-existing condition.” It’s even legal in some states to deny a woman coverage because she’s been a victim of d
The health care debate is over. We win. A top-to-bottom, government-run health care system is clearly not popular with 2010 voters. Fifty-eight percent of voters in states with competitive 2010 Senate races oppose the creation of a government-run health care system, or “single-payer” system, where the federal government pays for and provides health care for [...]
I’ve mentioned several times in the past, such as here , that liberal bloggers who consider the VA to be a model for a health care system are being misled by faulty data. The computer systems used by the Veteran’s Administration allow them to appear far better than they actually are due to the limitations in quality measurements used for health care. Essentially whoever can do the best job of reporting what they are doing will generally come out ranked the highest regardless of the actual quali
Of course, a populace that generally knows little about its own country’s health-care system isn’t likely to know much about the SYSTEMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES – no matter what it claims to have learned from wacky e-mails and demagogues on talk radio.
President Obama, bless his heart, evidently thought the nation would have a reasoned and respectful debate on health care reform. Oh, ye of liberal faith. Anyway, I’d been waiting for some Democrat to turn the tables on the shrieking, swastika-sign waving yahoos who show up at the town hall-style forums to demonize the president and the Democrats who want to overhaul our health care system. For weeks, we got grin-and-bear it from hard-pressed House and Senate Dems at the town hall food f