By Henry Massingale
August 13, 2011
To Strategically Rebuild America. Why we built a Anti Crime / Anti War Forum with a Health Care Concepts.
I am only human and I can not see into all of the issues, but what I do see, I have found that if I allow a person to read and make up their own minds that what I write holds a moral value of truth, then they add there heart to it, in disagreement or their concepts of what if, but what is most important is a balance is formed.
1st Debit Ceil Issue, WAR-We as a people world wide are against War, some say a unnecessary evil. But still we have War. This issue with the Afghan War, The year is in the 1970's United States help Bin Laden in Afghan to defeat Russia, and by the 80's the War ended. Around 1989 not long after, Bin orders the first strike against the World Trade -Twin Towers, then 9/11. Now we are at War in Afghan, the Taliban has portrayed all American's as a aggressive Specise with a foot hold on their territory. But to see photos of American Military Personal Shoot protecting Poppy Plants. I am sorry but this is true. A War fought to control a Heroin Empire.

2nd Debit Issue, between Canada and the USA, 1.2 million people died from Oxy Heroin. June 30, 2011, C-Span-3 on TV, the Capital Hill, Director Senator Sheldon, Senate Judiciary Sub Committee for Crime and Terrorism. Announcement Oxy. Heroin, this Heroin Health Care Concept, in 2007 that 27,000 Americans died, from this Opioid.
So if this Oxy Heroun is so good for the economy, where is the money ?
I have become the Founder and Director of the International Boycott Of The Arabic Drug Empire

Anyway, horrah for HCFAN and Wendell Potter–2 of the good 'guys'!

(Note we are updating these as new information comes to light including the recent efforts to move up the enrollment date and the announcements by major insurance companies to allow dependents to stay on during the gap. See the blog, our facebook group, and the action letter for more information!)

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WellPoint First Insurer to Implement Reforms Ahead of Schedule
(Indianapolis, April 27, 2010) WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP), the nation’s largest health insurer, announced today that it will implement federal legislation regarding individual market rescissions effective May 1.

This is well ahead of the effective date contained in the legislation. WellPoint is the first insurer to implement the provision. This move builds on WellPoint’s leadership in the early implementation of reform by extending coverage to dependents up to age 26.

Rescissions, while rarely used, are one process insurers employ to reduce fraud and protect members. The standard contained in the federal legislation requires insurers not to rescind policies except in cases of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of material fact.

WellPoint welcomes greater uniformity among insurers in this area. In June 2006, WellPoint was the first insurer to announce the establishment of a variety of changes to its rescission practices in an effort to ensure that rescissions are handled as accurately and appropriately as possible. WellPoint followed that in 2008 by being the first in the industry to offer a binding, external, independent third-party review process for rescissions, a move that was cited at the time as a model for the industry and goes beyond the requirements in the federal law.

“Our goal is to make reform work for our members and for the country,” said Angela Braly, Chief Executive Officer of WellPoint. “There have been a lot of misrepresentations and inaccuracies in recent days that have caused confusion among our members and among the public generally about our policies in this area. We think today’s announcement will go a long way toward bringing greater clarity.”

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About WellPoint, Inc.
WellPoint works to simplify the connection between Health, Care and Value. We help to improve the health of our communities, deliver better care to members, and provide greater value to our customers and shareholders. WellPoint is the nation’s largest health benefits company, with more than 33 million members in its affiliated health plans. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, WellPoint serves members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint does business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield or Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (in the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers throughout the country as UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com.
Contact:
Kristin Binns
Kristin.binns@wellpoint.com
917-697-7802

For many years, America’s health brokers have been offering health insurance to individuals, small businesses and large businesses for decades, yet the enrollment statistics have revealed a steady decrease on an annual basis. The number of uninsured Americans is estimated to be as high as 30 million, and the Health Care Reform Act offers a solution. Not only will there be a higher enrollment number for America’s health brokers, but as of 2014, it will be required by law for every American to obtain health insurance. Every single American will be impacted by the New Health Reform Bill, making it one of the most important measures of the 21st Century.
Businesses
The main focus will be on businesses of 50 or more employees, in which they will be required to offer individual health plans, as well as family plans to all employees or face some stiff fines from the government. The amount comes to $2000 per uninsured employee, though there are exemptions to this fine. If you as an employer assist an individual with acquiring a personal health insurance plan through an open market called an exchange, then it would result in no fines. This only applies to an individual who makes a certain amount under the Federal Poverty Level, and the premiums are over 8% of his annual income.
America’s health brokers can rest easy in the fact that there will be expanded coverage, though there may be more competition. With the rise in individuals who will have health insurance, there may not be as large of a risk as one may assume. Though the new bill will require America’s health brokers to enroll individuals with pre-existing conditions, there will also be a new population of young individuals who will be insured with fewer health problems.
It is understood that larger companies already provide a group insurance plan (HMO, PPO) that covers all areas of needs for the population of employees. These policies will change very little, but there may be some changes in where the funding for the new health care plan will come. It is proposed that those making a certain amount of money, both individuals and couples, will be taxed at a higher percentage than others. This will provide money that can be used for the exchange and making sure that all individuals will be offered an affordable health plan.
There are still a few years before the plan goes into full effect, though some of the measures will be enforced immediately. There will be plenty of time to sort out the details and iron out the difficulties. As for the plan, anyone who does not have health insurance as of January 1, 2014, will be penalized a certain amount of money, and this amount could become worse if health insurance is continuously neglected. There has never been a better opportunity for America’s health brokers in terms of acquiring a new customer base-a broader customer base. Also, there has never been a better time in history for individuals being provided with the resources for the necessary medical treatment. This is a very unique time, with history in the making. Finally, there will be health care for all.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100423/hl_nm/us_wellpoint_cancer

This new health reform bill is quite possibly a God send to people that have pre-existing conditions and cannot get affordable insurance anywhere. For far too long now, individuals with cancer, heart problems, or any other pre-existing disease have been left to fend for themselves, hoping and praying that they can receive the medical attention they so desperately need. They are made to be victims because of something that is out of their control. But, with this bill, that will no longer be the case. Insurance companies will no longer be able to deny someone that deserves care what they need just because they know they will have to fork over money.

If it's not over for the opponents, it's should not be over for us to fight to keep our rights to health care. We must always stay on guard and make sure this law remains strong to carry out its objectives. We cannot let the bigotries, the ignorance, and the misguided radicalists to weaken the law just to satiate their irrational bliss. We have come this far and just passed a major milestone in a health care history. So many American lives have lost already. We cannot yield, or even let ourselves fall into complacence, because we cannot afford to lose more.

I'm glad that HCAN staying around. Because what we need are to be alert and to fight for next level.

"Adult children who are on their parents’ plan now but who lose that coverage when they graduate from college will have the option of rejoining their parents’ policy in the new plan year beginning 6 months from now."

The "now"s and "current plan"s are the devil in the details. I haven't been able to get this question answered yet from anywhere.

But that situation has nothing to do with the health care bill. It's been going on for years. So it's not a very good excuse for voting no on the health care bill.

Teresa M.

The MA law has emphatically not contained costs, and many people have seen their mandated coverage diluted to the point where it is simply useless. Deductibles and co-pays continue to rise, and it is growing ever more difficult to find providers who will accept new patients. It is coverage without care. This fixes nothing. And talking heads like yourself, who don't actually know anything about healthcare (you're a blogger and musician, for crying out loud), make matters worse by giving people false hope that this kind of legislation will actually help them! I have been a healthcare provider and health educator for the past thirty years, and I believe that preserving and expanding the fragmented system of employer provided health insurance represents the worse possible way to address what ails our current system of disease management and wealth extraction. Frankly, by serving as cheerleaders for rubbish, HCAN is part of the problem.

you and the rest of the useless liberal interest groups should be ashamed. you got rolled by the industry and this white house. and we the people will be forced to pay the price for your collective ineffectiveness. we would have been better off if we chained ourselves en masse to the white house fence and occupied insurance office headquarters until reforms were put back in place.

WE CAN DO IT- WE DID IT- AND WE'LL DO IT AGAIN! By the way -Rush the Flaming Nazi gasbag has promised to leave the country if the health care reform bill passes- let's help his 300-lbs of felony-lawbreaking-narcotic-addict whimpering along with our boot, shall we? Ahh- why bother. Just another Right-wing antiprogressive, antiDemocratic LIE… tunes to the classical music station (oh wait, that's "libbrul"). Sounding shallow and shrill these days, these Repubs. Not even the Bush-lice could fool ALL the People ALL the Time!

If you make more than that, you'll be able to buy insurance on the new exchange in your state and the government will provide you tax credits so you can afford it.

So either way, there's a lot for you.

The $500 billion cut in Medicare will reduce coverage. Does anyone really believe that such a reduction can be made and not reduce what is provided?

15 million people will be added to Medicade yet CBO reports reductions of $35billion in prescriptions and $22billion to Medicade hospitals.

Does anyone really believe the federal government can impliment a 2,700 page bill resulting in less cost and more efficiency? When Medicare was passed in the mid 60s it was to be self sufficient yet it now has a $36 trillion unfunded obligations. Central authority by it's very nature is wasteful and inefficient. The eventual outcome will be rationing and long waits.

This is from someone who does not have health insurance. I will not pick someone elses pocket for a subsidy nor pay the fine. I have paid my own medical expenses since leaving the Air Force in 1984. If I contract something that I can not pay for then I will die but it is my life and not the governments. I will not let my individual libarty be taken away in the name of the greater good, the age old justificaion of the tyrrant.

This new law is an expansion of Americans being turned into addicts for Federal handouts.

Lincoln: Time to Move On to Implementation of Historic Law

Washington – U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln made the following statement following Senate adoption of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act:

“I am proud to have worked for nearly two years to help craft and pass the Senate Health Insurance Reform Plan that I watched the President sign into law on Tuesday,” Lincoln said. “While not a perfect bill, the Senate plan represents a delicate balance of insurance reform, Medicare protections, deficit reduction measures and assistance to small businesses. The plan underwent a thorough, transparent debate. The original proposal was first available for public inspection on November 21, 2009, and debated and amended on the Senate floor until its final passage on December 24.

“My opposition today to the package of amendments sent over by the House was that it did not undergo the same scrutiny and transparency as the Senate health bill that is now law. This vote does not hinder my commitment to ensuring that implementation of health care reform helps Arkansas working families and small businesses to the fullest.

“This new law will reduce costs for small business owners and the self-employed so they can reinvest their savings in their companies and hire more workers. It will force insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions, preserve Medicare for future generations and reduce the deficit by more than one trillion dollars over the next 20 years."”

If you don't believe it, check the Verisign domain record at http://www.whois.net/whois/anthembluecrosssucks.com

And to think the employee that registered this domain is paid with our insurance money… Makes you want to throw up, sorry, I take that back they might consider that a "pre-existing condition".

This is the reason why the Republicans were so afraid of, that they are now launching an all-out "nothing to lose" offense in the Senate and on the American televisions.

They have dug a hole with lies and deceits to try burying the Democrats and millions of American lives into it. But when the legislation has become law, the truth and facts of the reform bill are clearer to more people. Also clearer to many now is that what the Republicans call "principles" are really based on layers of lies and corrupted dealings with insurance companies. As facts become known to more, the very hole that the Republicans have dug is apparently the hole for their own grave.

We cannot let them stand in the Senate or continue to brainwash more Americans.

1 Once fully implemented, over 95% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, including 32 million who are currently uninsured.
2 Health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny people coverage because of preexisting conditions or to drop coverage when people become sick.
3 individuals and small businesses who can't afford to purchase insurance will be able to pool together and choose from a variety of competing plans with lower premiums.
4. Reform will cut the federal budget deficit by $138 billion over the next ten years, and $1.2 trillion in the following ten years
5 Health care will be more affordable for families and small businesses due to tax credits, subsidies, and other assistance—paid for largely by taxing insurance companies, drug companies, and the wealthiest of Americans.
6 Seniors on Medicare will pay less for their prescription drugs because the legislation closes the "donut hole" gap in existing coverage.
7 By reducing health care costs for employers, reform will create or save more than 2.5 million jobs over the next decade.
8 Medicaid will be expanded to offer health insurance coverage to an additional 16 million low-income people.
9 young adults will be able to remain on their families'insurance plans until age 26
10. Community health centers would receive an additional $11 billion, doubling the number of patients who can be treated regardless of insurance or ability to pay.

SKY STILL FALLING?

Might I suggest a comparison of health care costs between our two countries, I think our government has the drug companies on a short rein.

Regards, from Sydney Oz,
Dave

I'm so glad that the bill is passed, but I should add that although this is the triumph for the Americans, common senses and hopes that together we can change for better nation, the misinformed and ignorants are still out there. And the Republicans have vowed not giving up on spreading more lies and fictions. And with their bands of misguided mobs, they are to drag America and her people down to their knees to just prove that their political games still have control over the people.

To paraphrase the President's quote last night: it is a historic step toward the right direction, but we still have more works to do. The fixes for the bill through the Senate should allow us to put more cost control mechanisms in place. One of such powerful mechanisms is the public option, that is now gaining momentum in the Senate. Thanks to HCAN and the supporter. Senator Reid had already promised to make separate vote on this and we should not let this out of sight.

However, the Republicans are planning to use this opportunity of reconciliation to go all out to destroy whatever their can of the bill. As there is no limitation on the number that the amendment can be called for vote and debate of the validity of amendments for budget reconciliations, the Republicans are already drawing their offense. This is going be between making the bill better or nothing… and it'll be a biggest battle yet for all of us!!

Rejoice can be waited. As there is no such thing as a halfway triumph, we now have more to lose, but the Republicans are now have nothing to lose!!!

We all need to get out the information out, not just the internet info that mostly goes to the OFA, pro Health Care folks; we need to get it out to the general population. I have given $$ to HCAN, Move, Democrats, etc, but I am disabled, and did the best I could.

Get fierce, agressive, smart PR people on this…beat the bad info that is already coming out.

..And there is November!!!

The Christian Right is neither.

As reported yesterday on CNN, the tea party protesters called Barney Frank a faggot and another Congressman the N word. Its so offensive I can't even type it.

And this is who should be making the decisions on how to run our country? God help us all. May God have mercy on their souls.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/members_of_congress_get_the_sa.html

"I live and work in a state overrun with illegals. They make more money having kids than we earn working full-time. Today I had a 25-year old with 8 kids - that's right 8; all illegal anchor babies and she had the nicest nails, cell phone, hand bag, clothing, etc. She makes about $1,500 monthly for each;
you do the math.

I used to say, "We are the dumbest nation on earth." Now I must say and sadly admit: WE are the dumbest people on
earth (that includes ME) for we elected the idiot idealogues
who have passed the bills that allow this."

This is what I think "progressives" in the US don't get.
We don't have 2 parties here, we have one corporatist party. The two wings of it differ only in that the Dems program is to toss the proles any crumbs from the table that no one wants anyway, and the Repugs insist on sending it all to the landfill.

http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2010/03/12/polling-on-health-care-americans-closely-divided-support-increases-when-they-find-out-whats-in-the-bill/

Not since the traditionalist’s era, the heyday of the greatest generation, have citizens trusted the government or has the government been trustworthy and citizen focused.

Republicans say the people don’t want healthcare reform, but that is political machination. We want it and need it now. I argue that the twenty eight million uninsured, those with pre-existing conditions, the unemployed, and the underemployed pray for it.

Americans should not have to choose between healthcare and mortgage or food. We are sick and we are becoming worn out watching career politician’s focus on special interests and career paths. Specifically, those members of Congress who labor for companies who sell insurance for profit and are devoted to their next election.

It is time that we reform healthcare for the American people.

American citizens are entitled to healthcare and should receive wellness care, which is offered by every other industrialized nation, and we should have access to the same lifetime benefits enjoyed by members of Congress. Health insurance should be the available to all Americans and not the only the privileged few.

James Murray
Cary, North Carolina

http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1924:benefits-of-health-care-reform-district-by-district-impact&catid=169:legislation&Itemid=55

…schools?? Well, yeah I think we really failed that one!! You are here and barking like an insurance dog and misrepresenting facts is the testimony of that failure. Maybe now that you know you should go to another country and get yourself more proper educations! Americans need less of the ones like you and more of the ones who can help them to have control over their health care!!!

NOW, do you get it!!

I hope that we can get this pass soon and I wish that the Public Option be included eventually which would finally gives some real competition to the insurance companies.

Chances are good you will never become a wealthy CEO. So quit standing up for them. It is not going to make you rich sooner. I don't know what they told you back home, but that is not how America works.

I have worked in both military and civilian healthcare. You may translate those as "socialist" medicine and "for-profit" medicine, because that is exactly how they compare. I was just a records clerk, but never mind.

Military health facilities: The most decorated they get are potted plants, the occasional History Month display behind glass, and the odd poster or two.

Civilian health facilities: Go out of their way to get the latest paint colors and designer wallpaper and fancy fountains and gazebos and patios and oh my god where DO they get all that money–oh, right! From their shareholders and the gouging they do on patient bills!

Military healthcare is less than one-fifth the total Department of Defense budget, and that's straight from the Heritage Foundation, NOT exactly a bastion of progressive values. (And they think that percentage is too high and want to shove more of the cost off on servicemembers and their families!!) What's the percentage of the GDP and the federal budget, together, taken up by private healthcare, Medicare, and Medicaid? I'd love to know.

And there ain't no damn reason for anyone to earn over $100k a year unless they've got a dozen kids. Ten to one this CEO doesn't. Most CEOs don't.

As for this $100,trillion dollar in site………….
Results 1 - 10 of about 685,000 for net worth of medicine development industry
Just to show how deep this Health Care Tax split petition reaches. The term split petition is used because of the Tax factor plan that is not seen because of the intent not to show a capital Taxing of close to a $100 trillion dollar package, a yearly system income, not profit…..

Some have stated that I clam to have spiritual in site or something of the sort. I assure you this is not true, so when I state that I asked God to help, it is my way of saying hey Bobby show me how to work on theses Chevy engines. But I do thank you for the consideration. Consider me a cross of Jethro Bodine from the Beverly Hill Billies with my 10th. Grade education and Vin Diesel from the move Pitch Black.
So drop on by and see page 100 at our site and follow the blue pill link
Henry Massingale
FASC Concepts in and for Pay It Forward
http://www.fascmovement.mysite.com on google, look for page 1 american dream official site

Richard Kirsh is right on the ball by pointing out the return on equity (ROE) in the primary sources - the annual report, with the fact that these companies had announced to shareholders that they'll rate hike premium and kick out more people who need insurance most. But the AHIP, Mike Tuffins, tries to detour aways from the fact and shifts focus to talk about ranking in Fortune - third party sources. Why?? He just cannot answer the simple question that the insurance companies had already explicitly announced: THEY ARE IN A BUSINESS OF PROFITABILITY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE AMERICAN LIVES!!!

BUT, that does not mean the rest going toward making better care/coverage for the Americans, as they are trying to deceive people here by shifting focus over what goes toward "profit" or not.

For one, it's already evident that they have been trying to spend most of a dollar to destroy the reform that stops them from killing more Americans and to retain the status quo. For another, spendings is toward fighting any measures that prevent they from kicking people off insurance when they need it most. Also, they might have meant that spending for executive compensation is not in the definition of "profit".

http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2010/02/25/white-house-health-care-summit-morning-wrap-up-tort-reform-insurance-costs-and-republican-ideas/

http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2010/02/25/white-house-health-care-summit-afternoon-roundup-hsas-state-lines-and-polling/

To put it mildly, Republican ideas do nothing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/palin-crossed-border-for_n_490080.html

It seems more than a bit disingenuous to me to "arrest" the insurance companies so you can throw federal subsidies and mandated customers at them. When does common sense take over and we drop the senate bill in favor of expanding Medicare by reconciliation. You'd get no more pushback than you're already getting on the current pending legislation and that's what makes this entire thing suspicious.

Ellen

For every dollar spent on health care in America, less than one penny goes toward health plan profits. The focus needs to be on the other 99 cents.

But the argument that insurers run a tight ship is misleading, on several counts, not least of which is the fact that insurers are planning to spend “more than $1 million” not on health care claims — as their justification for the premium hikes would suggest — but “to run television ads on cable stations nationwide beginning in the next few days to push back on the attacks on insurers.”

That $1 million ad fund will presumably come from the one penny that goes towards health care profits. But this too is misleading. Zirkelbach is clever enough to compare the private insurance industry’s administrative spending to national health care expenditures — 45 percent of which includes spending in Medicare, Medicaid and other public programs. In the context of total spending, insurers administrative costs may look small, but compared to the revenues of private insurers, administrative spending is seen as far more substantial. Insurers skim off 15-20 percent of premium dollars for administrative costs and profits which fund TV ad campaigns, Washington lobbyists, lavish company retreats and outlandish CEO salaries.

The top five earning insurance companies averaged profits of $12.2 billion, an increase of $4.4 billion, or 56 percent, from 2008. And in 2008 (the last year for which data was available), CEO compensation for these companies ranged from $3 million to $24 million.” Below is a partial list of insurer/CEO profits:
Insurer: Company Profits 2009: CEO Total Compensation 2008 Or Earlier: CEO 5 Year Compensation:
UnitedHealth Group $3.8 billion $5 million –
WellPoint $4.75 billion $4 million –
Atena $1.28 billion $38 million $77 million
Humana $1 billion $2 million $56 million
Cigna $1.3 billion $10 million $121 million

Insurer profits increased even in the midst of the current recession. Last week, during a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, WellPoint admitted that it increased premiums to keep up with medical costs and maintain a 2% profit. The company’s 2009 fourth quarter net income “was more than $2.7 billion, a 727 percent increase from the fourth quarter of last year” — even as membership declined by some 4 percent.

Insurer profits are of course just one culprit for increasing premiums, but considering that insurers have been able to increase their returns by purging sicker Americans from the rolls and pulling out of competitive markets, the President’s strong rhetoric is more than justified. The Senate bill will start forcing insurers to earn profit by figuring out ways to deliver quality care more efficiently and they’re not very interested in accepting these changes.

Please get the true fact about what health reform will mean!!!!

So that's the kind of healthcare groups like Healthcare for America want us to adopt? The only problem is, we wont have anywhere to go, unlike Danny Williams does now. We will all be stuck in mediocre.

Way to go Mr. President. And don't hand me this 'socialism' and 'best medicine in the world ' crap because its a lie.
I don't mind paying for it- I need something I can afford.
And by the way - the Big 5 healthcare providers made 12 billion IN PROFITS last year and arbitrarily CUT the number insured.
Hand me a hanky, would you?

We now need some system or idea that may more closely intergrate these two power sources present in society which to the ordinary person appear to be more and more polarized. Each of these two powers need each other and when out of balance discord and strive occur and which could even conceivably lead to civil war. How to introduce more sources of power in government is to allow civil servants to elect their managers at all levels and each time their is a general election in the government level from whom they receive a paycheck that managerial position also must be available in an election.

And to add to the Health Care Reform debate perhaps you can find some additional pertinent information at http://way.to/Education. Thank you.

We Canadians are supporting your stand on bringing some public healthcare to your country, BUT we're amazed at the negativity alot of your citizens have against public healthcare - even from those who are not covered or "think" they're covered. The high premiums, and "spin" from your private insurance industry lobbiests is amazing - and more so when those with little coverage actually believe the scare tactics.

Here in B.C.premiums are payable for MSP coverage and are based on family size and income.
(Healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction, but is governed under the National Health Act)

Monthly rates are $54 for one person, $96 for a family of two and $108 for a family of three or more. Effective January 1, 2010 monthly rates will change to $57 for one person, $102 for a family of two and $114 for a family of three or more. One large GROUP PLAN.

http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/infoben/premium.html

This to us is a no-brainer, and we, up here, find it mind-boggling why so many of you are afraid of it down there. Good luck in your fight for healthcare for all on equal terms.

I was a heart transplant specialist but couldn't bear losing a patient because of insurance delays and denials due to "lifetime limit claims."

I am a great speaker and VERY passionate about this issue and how the insurance companies have held us as PRISIONERS because our gov't is STILL letting them call all the shots. They need AGGRESSIVE REGULATIONS and people like you and me to monitor their compliance.

Please help me find a way inside to help before it's too late.

Is it too late to join you for the arrests? was it today or tomorrow.

I am very knowledgeable and well spoken, previous director of the heart transplant program at a major university hospital with great credentials and well published. I would be a perfect person to speak the truth from both the doctor side, mother's side and patient uninsured for a long time side.

Please have SOMEONE contact me, I am desparate to helop prevent this bill from going down the tubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rebecca Quigg, MD, mother and patient

Have we communicated this message?

It may be that business as usual is most profitable for the insurance industry, but it is also more beneficial to Americans than the implementation of reform legislation.

Proof?

Perhaps the study delves deep enough to consider non-legislative reform (the type that the healthcare industry is working on by itself), but the language presented in the first excerpt suggests it's not even in the writers' scopes, as though the bills under consideration at present were the only possibility in the universe of healthcare and insurance reform. There's a red flag for skewed reasoning.

Pointing out that private industry stands to profit under the current situation does not entail that the legislation that hurts that industry is beneficial to Americans.

He's unemployed and my SS is only $786 a month. We're forced to cancel his health insurance and we'll do so on March 8. His savings have been seriously depleted. We're looking into VA at this point. The whole thing is depressing.

He asks pointed questions of both about "the President's current health bill" and they have different opinions on whether or not it deserves congressional vote support.

Surprising to me, I came to the conclusion that it SHOULD NOT BE PASSED without substantive additions and changes. You may reach opposite conclusions.

Make up your own minds, readers, but PLEASE listen to both critiques beforehand.

http://blog.hcanpa.org/?page_id=50

Hi.

I'm Cynthia Gee, your average Pennsylvania housewife. My husband's name is Arnold, and we have been married for over 30 years now. We've raised 2 kids and had a pretty good life so far, but this month my husband was diagnosed with Chronic Renal Disease after failing a physical examination necessary to obtain employment with the PA Department of Corrections.

Back in 2008 when Arnold first became unemployed, we applied for and were approved to receive Adult Basic insurance coverage at a cost of $36 per month, and we were placed on a waiting list.
We've been on that waiting list for over a year now, and in January I was told that it would be at least two more years before any more people would come off the waiting list and actually receive low-cost coverage, so to cover Arnold's escalating medical costs, I decided to pay the full price of $243 for Adult Basic coverage though on Unemployment we can't afford it.
I went to the Unison website, and found that the full price Adult Basic coverage that cost $243 last year now costs $600 per person per month. That's 249% increase, and over twice what we used to pay for coverage for BOTH OF US, back when Arnold was working.

That's an outrage - we only make $1800 per month, and this "low cost" coverage would cost us more than our rent, utilities and groceries put together. It's even more than it would have cost to continue our old insurance coverage under COBRA.

So, here we are — we make too much for Medicaid, and on unemployment we can't afford Adult Basic - we couldn't it even if both of us were working, and Arnold's nephrologist wants to be PAID - he asked us up front, right in the middle of Arnold's initial examination, exactly how we plan to pay his bill, and since we CAN'T pay it, we probably won't be able to continue Arnold's treatment.

I am considering undertaking a hunger strike to protest the 249% increase in Adult Basic premiums, and I would like to take my protest to the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, since we live near there.

Back in 2008 when Arnold first became unemployed, we applied for and were approved to receive Adult Basic insurance coverage at a cost of $36 per month, and we were placed on a waiting list.
We've been on that waiting list for over a year now, and in January I was told that it would be at least two more years before any more people would come off the waiting list and actually receive low-cost coverage, so to cover Arnold's escalating medical costs, I decided to pay the full price of $243 for Adult Basic coverage though on Unemployment we can't afford it.
I went to the Unison website, and found that the full price Adult Basic coverage that cost $243 last year now costs $600 per person per month. That's 249% increase, and over twice what we used to pay for coverage for BOTH OF US, back when Arnold was working.

That's an outrage - we only make $1800 per month, and this "low cost" coverage would cost us more than our rent, utilities and groceries put together. It's even more than it would have cost to continue our old insurance coverage under COBRA.

There is nothing more that I can do - we make too much for Medicaid, and on unemployment we can't afford Adult Basic - we couldn't it even if both of us were working, and Arnold's nephrologist wants to be PAID - he asked us up front, right in the middle of Arnold's initial examination, exactly how we plan to pay his bill, and since we CAN'T pay it, we probably won't be able to continue Arnold's treatment.

I am seriously considering undertaking a hunger strike to protest the 249% increase in Adult Basic premiums, and I would like to take my protest to the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, since we live near there.

Can you tell me what licenses I would need to protest legally, and how to get publicity for my efforts?

Still, hoping you'll come by! Click the link above to RSVP.

I'm with the Healthcare Reform and I believe controlling the charges is a major part of it…no only the questions of health insurance.Address the core will give validity to the reform.

Thanks

Why not Medicare (Improved!) for All…with a robust private option.

(If they can stay robust while not being able to gouge the consumer….)

As badly as our health care system is right now a comprehensive health care reform is just a starting point. American lives cannot be any longer under the mercy of these companies decision for profit without accountability!!!