insurance companies

The American Medical Association (AMA) started an ad campaign today calling out a group of Republican Senators, including Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, who worked with the big insurance companies to block a bill that would have prevented

I was going through our medical bills this morning and I found $264 dollars that the Vanderbilt Medical Center charged me for a test that according to my doctor ended up being "not processed properly as ordered." No where on the bill is the $264 credited. There was also a $45 blood test that did yield results according to my MD.

"insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must guarantee one year of "quality life" for $50,000 or less. "

Looks like they may have been undervaluing a bit.

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Slate has an interesting piece that dissects the McCain healthcare plan. Essentially, it says that it is a Robin Hood plan that attempts to solve soaring heath insurance costs with the same tactics that were used to curb credit card abuses in the 1970s.

Running folks continually through the ER for services they should be receiving from clinics and their regular physicians is beyond outrageously expensive.

Does Bob Tuke support universal* health care? You betcha:

In a Knoxville News Sentinel op-ed yesterday

Krugman continues what Elizabeth Edwards started — pointing out that McLame’s Health Care plan is a failure.