We’ve explored the importance of health care time and again here at the InsWeb Blog, but last week’s article in The New York Times reminds us just how important this issue is. According to the article, if the current system remains unchanged more than 275,000 adult Americans will die over the next decade due to [...]
Americans have always felt passionately about health care, and almost every single attempt to change or modify its status quo has been met with resistance. This is a dysfunctional health care system, yet with so many people and business groups affected by the health care reform, it’s a small wonder. The current political health care [...]
The current version of health care reform legislation is so roiled in controversy that it’s not clear it will be passed any time soon. However, if it is passed, one of its most controversial aspects – mandatory purchase of health insurance – will become law. For many people, this new requirement is considered to be [...]
All Americans are concerned about health care reform. People who already have health insurance are worried that theirs might change or be reduced, while those who don’t are worried that whatever they get won’t be enough. Everyone’s heard the horror stories about lives derailed by lack of health insurance, medical bankruptcies and worse, and the [...]
Democratic Senators had been working diligently to sculpt a health bill that they thought would please enough of the nation to justify being passed. And even though it wasn’t satisfactory to Republicans, it didn’t matter because Democrats carried 60 seats – enough to overcome a Republican filibuster. That is, until Tuesday, when a shocking event [...]