Conservatives tend to run toward the greedy side.

Paul Ryan - being honest at last.

In all honesty - Paul Ryan

Speaking of the cost of health care...

From Time Magazine



Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

The first of the 344 lines printed out across eight pages of his hospital bill - filled with indecipherable numerical codes and acronyms - seemed innocuous. But it set the tone for all that followed. It read, "1 ACETAMINOPHE TABS 325 MG." The charge was only $1.50, but it was for a generic version of a Tylenol pill. You can buy 100 of them on Amazon for $1.49 even without a hospital's purchasing power.

Dozens of midpriced items were embedded with similarly aggressive markups, like $283.00 for a "CHEST, PA AND LAT 71020." That's a simple chest X-ray, for which MD Anderson is routinely paid $20.44 when it treats a patient on Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly.

Hey, Catholics

If religious organizations, such as the Catholic Church want to be exempt from government regulation, they they need to get out of the business of running organizations in the private sector that are subject to governmental oversight. Why are Catholics running hospitals anyway?

Explaining the Republican health care plan...

Keeping score on health care

Why we need single payer

Republicans discuss health care

Why can't we work this out?

Hey - we're improving at ONE thing - deaths of citizens under the age of 75.

Tea Party Crowd Cheers Letting Uninsured Die

Now this is interesting...

I find the study noted below to be both interesting and conflicting. As a long time union member, I support the right of workers to get what is coming to them - but perhaps over-inflated fees for doctors needs to be studied a bit more. You can read more on this HERE.

The study, being published Thursday in the journal Health Affairs, found that the incomes of primary care doctors and orthopedic surgeons were substantially higher in the United States than in other countries. Moreover, it said, the difference results mainly from higher fees, not from higher costs of the doctors' medical practice, a larger number or volume of services or higher medical school tuition.

Such higher fees are driving the higher spending on doctors' services, the study concluded.

Understanding the health care dilemna in the US

 

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Understanding what the Republican plan means for YOU

Cost of Health care vs. longevity (sorted by nations)

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Health care costs US

Slowpoke: Freedom to be screwed

If any of the poor and middle class folks who vote Republican really understood what they were voting for, the country wouldn't have the issues we have today.

Using TSA to lower health care costs (cartoon)

Health Care hypocrites

No health care for you - once the Republicans have their benefits sorted out.