Health and Sanity category archive
A Pre-Existing Condition 0
Paul Krugman and Dick Polman differ on what precisely said pre-existing condition may be. Read them both and decide which one is correct.
Afterthought:
Their two diagnoses are not mutually exclusive.
Pulling the Plug 0
Headline: Justice Department sides with lower court, says Obamacare should end
Image via Job’s Anger.
“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.