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POPSThe Joker Doesn’t Seem To Understand Competition, So He Will Prohibit It In place of the variety of products that competition would generate, we would be forced “choose” among virtually identical insurance plans. Government would define these plans down to the last detail. Every one would have at least the same “basic” coverage, including physical exams, maternity benefits, well-baby care, alcoholism treatment, and mental-health services. Consumers could not buy a cheap, high-deductible catastrophic policy. Every insurance company would have to use an identical government-designed pricing structure. Prices would be the same for sick and healthy. In this respect, it wouldn’t matter whether or not Congress created a “public option,” a government insurance plan. In either case, bureaucrats would dictate virtually every aspect of the health-insurance business. What Obama says in favor of a public option " as of today, at least " tells us how little he understands competition.
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POPSSensible and free health care reform that the left can't stand John Mackey is the CEO of Whole Foods. After this article Obamacare supporters started a boycott of Whole Foods. Many on the left like to say the right is opposed to health care reform and would rather do nothing, but it seems to me more like those on the left want a government run system or nothing. They say the right is stonewalling reform, but they seem to be the one's unwilling to give any ground.
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POPSCEO John Mackey's Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare & The Lefty Bloggers' Backlash
Brian Beutler of TPM noted the inclusion of a diet endorsement in the op-ed, and offered a translation of Mackey's manifesto: ""Whole Foods is the solution to all of America's health care woes." Other attackers had less time for mockery, and demanded a boycott: I Will Never, Ever Shop at Your Stores Again Users at the Daily Kos screamed their outrage, other bloggers linking to their hot-blooded denunciations. "Mr. Mackey," wrote one user named DarkSyde, "your extremist views on employee benefits and unionization have Mackey's Response: The WSJ Put Words in My Mouth Three days after the initial op-ed, John Mackey stated on the Whole Foods CEO's Blog that "Whole Foods Market as a company has no official position on the issue." Saying that he had written the editorial under the simple title of "Health Care Reform," Not Off the Hook , declared The Reality-Based Community's Mark Kleiman, referring to Mackey's response: "The title is the least . . .
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POPSFive Endangered Freedoms In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage -- including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money -- but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can't have. It's a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.
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POPSMy Response to Sen. D. Stabenow (D-MI)
For the most part, my insurance coverage is catastrophic only. My portion of the premiums if I were to cover eligible members of my family would cost nearly 1/4 of my bi-weekly take home pay. Obviously, if a mortgage is only supposed to by 1/3 of your monthly salary, then insurance premiums are nearly the price of a good-sized house. Adding to the 'ranks of the uninsured' is the fact of a 14.2% unemployment rate - of which my husband is one. He doesn't qualify for unemployment insurance so he isn't even counted. So, why are my premiums so high? First, because malpractice insurance for my physicians is totally out of control due to frivolous law suits, huge legal fees and the costs associated with trying even a small case. The judge, clerks, bailiffs, secretaries, etc...all have to be paid - by me, the taxpayer. Because of the need to cover themselves, doctors are forced to order complicated, often if not always expensive and sometimes unnecessary tests and procedures. Ev
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POPSWhy Not "Universal Food Coverage, Too"? who only want to insure against the possibility that they'll be hit by a truck. So politicians at both the state and federal level keep passing boatloads of insurance mandates requiring that all insurance plans cover a raft of non-emergency conditions that are expensive to treat -- but whose practitioners have high-priced lobbyists. Insurance plans that force everyone in the plan to pay for everyone else's Viagra and anti-anxiety pills are already completely unfair to people who rarely go to the doctor. It's like being forced to share gas bills with a long-haul trucker or a restaurant bill with Michael Moore. On the other hand, it's a great deal for any lonely hypochondriacs in the plan. Now the Democrats want to force us all into one gigantic national health insurance plan that will cover every real and mythical ailment that has a powerful lobby.
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POPSWhy we must ration healthcare More: we should remind ourselves that the U.S. system also results in people going without life-saving treatment — it just does so less visibly. Pharmaceutical manufacturers often charge much more for drugs in the United States than they charge for the same drugs in Britain, where they know that a higher price would put the drug outside the cost-effectiveness limits set by NICE. American patients, even if they are covered by Medicare or Medicaid, often cannot afford the copayments for drugs. That’s rationing too, by ability to pay. Dr. Art Kellermann, associate dean…at Emory School of Medicine…wrote of a woman who came into his emergency room in critical condition because a blood vessel had burst in her brain. She was uninsured and had chosen to buy food for her children instead of spending money on her blood-pressure medicine. In the emergency room, she received excellent high-tech medical care, but by the time she got there, it was too late to save her.
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POPSHow to Get Cheaper Auto Insurance Insurance for your automobile can suck a significant number of dollars form your wallet every month. Here are some important tips to keep some of your hard earned cash.
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POPSMedicare PartD - Diabetes Care Medicare Part D is a prescription drug coverage that’s available to everyone who is eligible for Medicare. If you join you will generally pay a monthly premium. If on Medicare and you have diabetes consider Diabetes Care Club for your testing supplies.
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POPSA.I.G. Sues U.S. for Return of $306 Million in Tax Overpayments In part, A.I.G. says it overpaid its federal income taxes after a 2004 accounting scandal that caused it to restate its financial records. A.I.G. says in part that it is entitled to a refund of $33 million that SICO paid in 1997 as compensation to employees, which it now says should be characterized as a deductible expense. A.I.G.’s lawyers in the case, at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, referred calls to the company. Asked about the lawsuit, Mark Herr, an A.I.G. spokesman, said Thursday that “A.I.G. is taking this action to ensure that it is not required to pay more than its fair share of taxes.”
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POPSMedicare Part D is bad Buy Generic Medications Good For years, people have saved a lot of money buying their generic medications from other countries and still today, even with the new Medicare benefit, people are saving 30 to 60% by buying their medications from countries like Canada and India
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POPSAuto Bailout Fails: United Auto Workers (U.A.W). at Fault? To make the economics even better, GM has eliminated health care for salaried retirees. To insure that costs stayed in line new union hires will receive a choice of a high deductible health plan or flex spending plan and a $1.00 per hour 401K to fund their retiree health benefits. Analysts predicted that the labor cost gap between the transplants and the US domestics (especially GM) would be eliminated by 2011 due to these factors and, when combined with increased efficiency that is nearly on par with Toyota, will put GM in the black. All in all, GM’s looking at over $5 billion a year in savings from 2007 costs. While the majority of cost savings will kick in sequentially GM saved $300 million on drug benefits in the first year alone.
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POPSWhat Is A Health Savings Account Know more about Health Spending Account. What is an HSA? Find information about what is a health savings account. Great education resource about Health Savings Account (HSA) & High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP). Get Health Savings Insurance Plans quote.
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POPSHsa Account Know more about Health Spending Account. What is an HSA? Do you want to know? Find information about what is a health savings account. Get detailed information about HSA - Health Savings Account idea and rules. Find useful information for HSA – Health Savings Accounts and HDHP – High Deductible Health Plans. We offering high deductible health insurance plans HDHP which can be paired with a health savings account HSA plans. HSA – Health Savings Accounts Educator provides you Health Care Savings & Health Plan Savings Account Information and Education. Know more about rules and ideas for HDHP – High Deductible Health Plan. Find info for HSA Health Insurance Plans for Self Employed or any consumers. We provide guidance for Self Employed Health Insurance whether it is for single or family coverage.
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POPSDemocratic Leaders to American Commuter: Ride a Bike and the bill would "...effectively outlaw development of America's vast offshore oil resources." The Democrats plan for energy independence. Maybe I would be more favorable if I thought, for a minute, these same Congressional members would follow their own bill. Can't you just see Pelosi, Frank, Rockefeller, etc....riding their bikes to their offices every morning?? Nope, never would happen.
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POPSGender can cost you in individual health insurance "Perhaps this is partly because women are more likely to seek preventive care, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. But this should make them better insurance risks. After all, they're proactively working to stay healthy. And isn't that exactly what insurers encourage people to do? "It doesn't make any sense," said Alice Wolfson of United Policyholders, a San Francisco-based advocacy group. "The insurers aren't assessing risk. They're assessing how much healthcare is used, even when it's preventive treatment." A spokesman for the California Department of Insurance said there were no regulations preventing gender-based pricing for individual policies."
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