Posts tagged as: healthcare

Texas Physicians Plead Guilty to 10-Year Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

Drs. Arun and Kiran Sharma, of Kemah, Texas, have been convicted to “conspiring to commit health care fraud over a 10-year-period in the Southern District of Texas”.

Justice Department Shuts Down Planned Healthcare Merger

Washington, D.C. – On March 8, 2010, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan announced that they would end their planned merger.

Losing the War on Healthcare

Everyone lauds the passing of the latest law extending antitrust to the health insurance companies.  The DNC seems to think that they have scored a major victory in the war for healthcare reform.  Unfortunately, the Democrats tend to be more interested in winning battles while losing the war.  The sad story is the passing of [...]

The Latest in the Healthcare Debacle

It would seem that the right-wing conservative GOP propaganda machine has done its job of scaring people over socialized medicine.  It would seem they have even influenced even some of the DNC into the elimination of a National Healthcare System.  Perhaps one of the worst tactics was so skew the facts so as to scare senior [...]

A Sad, Sad America

While nursing a case of the flu last weekend, I again began reflecting on how sad and utterly pathetic America has become.  Instead of being a nation that cares about each other, we are a selfish nation.  While I have a comparatively mild case of the flu, I am thinking of the millions of Americans [...]

Nine Arrested At WellPoint Insurance Sit-In | MichaelMoore.com

Nine Arrested At WellPoint Insurance Sit-In | MichaelMoore.com. Simone Morse, a 19-year old student at Hunter College, was the first to be handcuffed and pulled up from the floor this morning at 1 Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan, the corporate offices of WellPoint, one of the largest health insurers in the United States. Cameron Gibson, [...]

Health care reform and the U.S growing dental care problem

According to the U.S Census Bureau, for every American without health insurance, there are three without dental insurance, nearly half the U.S population, causing 164 million missed working hours caused by dental pain. During the overall discussions on health care reform in the United States, very little attention has been given to one aspect of [...]

Shunned Illinois senator suddenly relevant – Capitol Hill- msnbc.com

Shunned Illinois senator suddenly relevant – Capitol Hill- msnbc.com. It would appear that Roland Burris, the “shunned” senator from Illinois is taking a strong position on a single-payer healthcare provision as part of the reform.  Whilst I am no fan of Burris and the Blagovich corruption machine, he may, as of yet, redeem himself.  I [...]

Aides: Obama not demanding public option – Health care reform- msnbc.com

Aides: Obama not demanding public option – Health care reform- msnbc.com. This is deeply disappointing news.  President Obama has failed the American people and has succumbed to the Health Insurance Industry Lobbyists.  I am deeply saddened to hear that Obama is abandoning the uninsured and the insured whom fell victims to the industry’s practice.  This [...]