On AlterNet: health insurance
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "health insurance"
Eyal Press, TheNation.com AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 9, 2009.
If anti-choice pols want to assure taxpayers they won't subsidize abortion, why haven't they tried to abolish tax breaks for employer-sponsored health insurance?
William Ehart, Washington Times. November 7, 2009.
The proposed Ian's law, named after a victim of muscular dystrophy who requires an electronic device to speak would protect the most vulnerable from losing coverage.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2009.
Part of the bill would ensure that insurers in the individual market would no longer treat domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, AlterNet: Video. October 23, 2009.
A single-payer approach saves hundreds of billions of dollars.
RH Reality Check, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. October 21, 2009.
After insurance agent Chris Turner was raped, she went under cover to find out if her treatment would make her next insurance policy an impossible dream.
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. October 21, 2009.
By taking anti-AIDS medicine after a rape, Christina Turner discovered that she had made herself all but uninsurable.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 14, 2009.
It's pretty unusual for a Senate Majority Leader to testify as a witness at a committee hearing, so I was glad to see Harry Reid (D-Nev.) make an exception today on a key issue.
Robin Marty, RH Reality Check AlterNet: PEEK. October 13, 2009.
According to some companies, costs should stay manageable as long as you make "healthy lifestyle choices." So much for having kids...
Robert Greenwald, October 5, 2009.
Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 22, 2009.
The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
AKMuckraker, The Mudflats AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2009.
Doctors are in the business of saving lives from disease, and illness and injury, but they shouldn't have to be in the business of saving lives from business.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 15, 2009.
In eight states, Ryan Grim reports, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.
Robert Greenwald, September 14, 2009.
Welcome to the American health insurance industry.
Viji Sundaram, New America Media. September 11, 2009.
Leaders in the medical community analyzed what the president's health care plan would mean for immigrants and minorities.
Victor Zapanta, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 3, 2009.
The complaint comes in response to the insurance companies' practice of actively encouraging employees to engage in anti-health care reform political activity.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 1, 2009.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins responds to a question posed by a 27-year old waitress who cannot afford health care.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. August 24, 2009.
The health plans rattling around Congress are designed to force you to buy a defective product: Bad private insurance.
Robert Greenwald, AlterNet: Politics. August 6, 2009.
What does UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year?
Dean Baker, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. August 4, 2009.
The Right knows that they are supposed to hate Obamacare, the only problem is that they keep forgetting why.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: Health and Wellness. August 3, 2009.
A roundup of what too look for in the ongoing battle over healthcare reform on Capitol Hill.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. August 3, 2009.
Here's a closer look at the taxpayer-subsidized coverage members of Congress have.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 1, 2009.
For those who think the government shouldn't be involved in health care, they already are. And you should be grateful.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2009.
A new poll draws a link between the decline of industry and skyrocketing health care costs.
Dean Baker, AlterNet. July 8, 2009.
If the public plan is bad, then people will just stay with the options currently available in the private sector.
Chris Bowers, AlterNet: World. July 6, 2009.
It looks as if the Democrats have potentially 45 Democrats signed up to support the public option. Now is the time for the final push.
