Quick hit: No fucking way
Today’s edition of “When Orange County sees blizzards” is brought to you by… Here’s Robert Waldman: One politically unfeasible approach to this would be to assign people randomly to HMO’s and pay the HMO’s based on their health but have the HMO’s pay for their health care. Then the HMO decides incentives. You have to [...]
...read moreThe (Lack of) Medical Treatment Received by ICE Detainees
Last week, Miss Sarajevo left a comment with a link to this series of articles in The Washington Post, and I’m just finally getting around to writing about it. The series, “Careless Detention,” is about the terrifying, unethical and downright inhumane medical treatment of immigrants imprisoned by ICE, generally while fighting or awaiting deportation for [...]
...read moreUpdate: Iscoa Will Remain in U.S.
Good news, folks: Sonia del Cid Iscoa will not be forcibly (or apparently otherwise) deported to Honduras. Even better, her condition has improved markedly and at an exceptional rate. (Thanks to Lindsay for the update.) St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center on Tuesday reached agreement with lawyers representing Sonia del Cid Iscoa, ending an international [...]
...read moreHospital Attempts Deportation of Woman With Inadequate Insurance
An immigrant woman from Honduras who has very recently awakened from a coma is being threatened with what can effectively be called deportation, because she does not have the insurance needed to cover her medical bills. (Don’t read the comments in these articles unless you want to lose your lunch.) But here is the real [...]
...read moreThe Bush administration: So “pro-life,” they’ll violate federal law to deny health care to children
Don’t you just love how much “pro-lifers” care about babies once they’re born? The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday. Anti-choice Republicans were concerned that [...]
...read moreThat’s going to leave a mark
Elizabeth Edwards responds to a McCain campaign spokesman’s dismissive assertion that she “did not understand the comprehensive nature of the senator’s proposal.”
...read moreWhaddaya gonna do about it?
I would be seriously remiss if I didn’t highlight Meowser’s terrific post, at Shakesville and cross-posted at Fat Fu, in response to this comment by Barack Obama: “If we could go back to the obesity rates of 1980 we could save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.”—Barack Obama during Democratic Presidential Debate, 12/13/07 Says Meowser: [...]
...read moreHow Ronald Reagan caused the hostage situation at Hillary’s headquarters
Several of Hillary Clinton’s campaign workers were held hostage yesterday at her headquarters in Rochester, New Hampshire, and Ronald Reagan bears at least part of the blame. Richard Kim explains at The Nation – Reagan started to dismantle state-funded mental health care without creating an alternate system, and subsequent administrations have only made the problem [...]
...read moreOn contraception, and why those snotty-nosed college punks don’t deserve it
Those of us in the reproductive rights crowd have been talking about the increase in birth control prices on college campuses for some time, now. The change came about due to new rules passed in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and went into effect a few months ago. Don’t let the name of the [...]
...read moreWant to live a longer life? Don’t be pregnant in America
Sarah Blustein’s got the reasons why, especially if you’re a woman of color: Good news! if you are an ordinary mortal living in the United States, your chances of staying alive are better than ever. According to new government numbers, the rate of Americans dying in 2004 (the most recent year to be calculated) hit [...]
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