Category Archives: Health care reform

You Get A Pony, He Gets A Pony, Everybody Gets A Pony!

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Myiq2xu

I can imagine the perfect health care system. You are given a card, and if you get sick or injured you go to a doctor or emergency room and present that card and they give you whatever examinations, tests, treatments, … Continue reading →

Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health care reform, Obamacare, ObamaTax, Single-Payer | Tagged , , | 82 Comments

Obolacare Open EnROLOLment

Posted on October 29, 2014 by votermom

Here it is again, that time of year that used to be a simple tradition that’s turned, in the past couple of years, into a week of anxiety and trepidation: Open Enrollment. I am really grateful that my husband’s employer … Continue reading →

Posted in Health care reform, Obamacare | 73 Comments

This post will shock Wanda the Teabagee Troll

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Myiq2xu

This will shock Wanda the Teabagee Troll, but I favor national healthcare – Single-Payer or Socialized Medicine. Yep, that’s right. That’s why I said that my ideology doesn’t have a name. I have no illusions. What I envision is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Health care reform, Klown Musings | Tagged , | 130 Comments

Some Cold Hard Truth About Obamacare

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Myiq2xu

Transcript via Independent Journal Review: Mr. President, we at Fox News are not the problem. I hate to break it to you, sir. You are. Your words are. Your promises are. We didn’t sell this healthcare law. Sir, you did. … Continue reading →

Posted in Health care reform, Obamacare | Tagged , | 67 Comments

Are You Ready Yet?

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Myiq2xu

Here is the worst part about Obamacare (and it has a lot of really bad parts): Obamacare does nothing to make health care less expensive. It doesn’t even make health care insurance more affordable. By the time the Obamacare Debacle … Continue reading →

Posted in Health care reform, Obamacare | Tagged , | 23 Comments

Vindication

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Myiq2xu

Paul Krugman admits that Sarah Palin was right: Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising…there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025, … Continue reading →

Posted in Health care reform, Obamacare, Palinpalooza, Sarah Palin | Tagged , | 9 Comments

People need health care, not health care insurance

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Klown Mom

Fareed Zakaria: Curbing the cost of health care Many liberals believe that the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — is unpopular only because most Americans don’t understand it. There is some truth to this: Studies show that the core provisions … Continue reading →

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Rectal Myopia

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Myiq2xu

Greg Sargent: How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong? Many people have blamed Obama Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s poor defense of the law for the sudden jeopardy Obamacare finds itself in, and there’s no denying he … Continue reading →

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Why does our health care cost so much?

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Myiq2xu

Ezra Klein: Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher. That may sound obvious. But … Continue reading →

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Two years too late

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Myiq2xu

Occupy Protesters Interrupt Chamber Of Commerce Health Care Event Protesters disrupted a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on health care today, interrupting speaker Scott Serota, the CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Chanting “we are the 99 percent,” the … Continue reading →

Posted in Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Health care reform, Obamacare, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 8 Comments