Health and Sanity category archive
“Just the Vaxx, Ma’am” 0
David discusses Italy’s move against the anti-vaxxers, as well as the types of emails he gets from anti-vaxxers on the right and the left when he covers this issue.
The GOP Health Plan: “Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly” 0
Thom tries to understand why Republicans are so dead set against affordable health care. Callers propose various theories.
(I think the second caller may be onto something.)
Obamascare 0
Dick Polman takes a long and penetrating look at the ruling from a Texas Federal District court that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, even you the Supreme Court ruled otherwise six years ago. If you want to know what’s going on, his analysis is a good place to start.
Here’s a bit (italics in the original):
Repealing the law by fiat…True that. Conservatives always complain about “judicial overreach,” about liberal judges “legislating from the bench.” Yet here we have a classic example. The broad sweep of this ruling – if allowed to stand – would wipe out everything in the law, from the popular protection of people with preexisting medical conditions, to the popular coverage for young people until age 26, to the expansion of Obamacare via Medicaid – which has become so popular that it’s now a feature in 36 states, including Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, and West Virginia. Those I’ve listed are all red states.
“Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly” 0
Paul Krugman comments on the failed Republican effort to gin up a substitute for the Affordable Care Act. A nugget:
Do please read the rest.
(Misplet wrod fxied.)
The Medicine Show 0
Thom and Wendell Potter discuss how Big Pharma and Big Insurance are trying to scare Americans from fixing the healthcare mess that feeds their bottom lines.
More here.
The Cost of Staying Alive 0
In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Siddharta Mukherjee took a fascinating look at a recent study as to what makes health care in the United States consume twice as much of GDP as it does in other industrialized nations. A snippet:
I commend it to your attention.
Profiteers of Misery 0
Part One.
Part Two:
Aside:
Brodock is quite correct about doctors’ not knowing how much health care costs. When I told my doctor how much one prescription he gave me cost, he nearly fell off his chair. It was almost 10 times the cost of an equivalent over-the-counter nutritional supplement. He okayed my using the OTC product.
“He Couldn’t Afford To Live” 0
Thom tells of the story of a friend who died because he couldn’t afford health insurance and draws its lessons.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s policy in the coming Republican dystopia.
Details at the link.
Suffer the Children 0
Mike wonders why Republicans and their vocally self-proclained “Christian” supporters are willing to condemn children to sickness and death through their failure to renew CHIP. (Warning: Language.)
