No. Obamacare isn’t killing the insurance industry.
As health carriers blame losses on Obamacare, their stocks gains continue to be 'yuge,' thanks to one great customer: Uncle Sam
By Wendell Potter
healthinsurance.org, March 1, 2016
The first seven years of the Obama administration have been “yuge” for the health insurance industry, to use one of The Donald’s favorite words.
To be more precise, it has been yuge — almost unbelievably yuge, in fact — for the well-heeled folks who own stock in the for-profit companies that dominate the industry, including Cigna and Humana, the two insurers I used to work for.
New Maine AllCare Chapter Forming in Blue Hill
by Joe Lendvai
Another View: Way to fight addiction
is to make health care universal
A columnist had good ideas about how to treat people with addiction, but not how to pay for it.
by Daniel Bryant
What is Meant by 'Single-Payer' in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
By Vicente Navarro, M.D.
CounterPunch, March 10, 2016
Hospitals working to make intensive care less terrifying
For many patients, time spent in an intensive care unit is a deeply disturbing experience, and not just because they are suffering from a serious illness. They are often heavily sedated, encircled by beeping equipment, unable to talk or even think clearly. Doctors and nurses prod their bodies as scores of trainees watch.
“I could feel people touching me but I couldn’t move,’’ said Ashleigh Robert, 30, who spent three weeks in the ICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston awaiting a liver transplant. “It was extremely frightening.”
Christians Flock to Groups That Help Members Pay Medical Bills
Should a man taken to the ER in an ambulance against his will have to pay the bill?
by David Lazarus - LA Times
As George Varghese tells it, he was walking along a sidewalk in West Los Angeles when he tripped on a crack and fell to the ground, spraining his wrist.
"An ambulance appeared suddenly," he recalled. "Three men came out, checked my ID, laid me on a cart, pushed me into the van and took me to the emergency room."
That would seem like a model of paramedic perfection, except for one thing. Varghese, 79, said he didn't want to go to the ER.
"If I wanted to go to the emergency room, I could have taken a cab costing less than $10," he said.
Why the US health care system fails the smallest lives
By William Sturrock, Janice Pelletier and Jack Forbush
Posted March 14, 2016
An important fact about our babies was lost in recent news, given all the distractions caused by the presidential wrestling matches. According to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, infant mortality rates in the United States decreased by 2.3 percent between 2013 and 2014, down to 582 deaths per 100,000 live births. Although this is the lowest U.S. infant mortality rate ever recorded, compared to other countries, we still have a long way to go, baby.
Can Cuban Medicine Help Solve American Inequality?
Nearly a hundred Americans are studying medicine at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), where they are taught preventive medicine to treat the underserved.
by San Loewenberg - The Development Set
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