health-insurance
Adam Weinstein · 04/15/14 11:09AM
The Congressional Budget Office now says Obamacare will cost $104 billion less and cover millions more people than it previously estimated. Also, more employers are offering workers health coverage. Open-market-sustainable socialism is on the march, comrades!
Psychotherapist Is Unable to Understand What Medical Insurance Is
Tom Scocca · 11/11/13 04:50PMWriting in today's New York Times opinion section, the psychotherapist and Atlantic contributor Lori Gottlieb offers a shocking first-person account of why the Affordable Care Act is in so much political trouble: It's because many Americans are too stupid and too selfish to understand how health insurance works, on the most fundamental level.
Applying for Health Insurance: Before and After Obamacare
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/08/13 04:49PMWhile politicians argue incessantly around President Obama's healthcare system overhaul, one thing gets frequently lost in the din: Does Obamacare actually improve America's healthcare system.
Homeless Man Robs Bank for One Dollar to Get Free Health Care in Jail
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/26/13 02:55PMAuthorities in Oregon say a homeless man who held up a bank for $1 was just looking for a way to go to jail so he could receive free health care.
Dying Man Denied Health Coverage Over Missing 26 Cents
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/13/13 12:30PMWhen Sergio Branco was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia earlier this year, his family knew the resulting medical expenses would rack up quickly.
Hero Who Became Paralyzed While Saving Child Can't Pay Medical Bills
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/13/13 12:37PMMaine Doctor Slashes Prices By Rejecting Health Insurance
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/29/13 12:13PMA Portland, Maine, physician believes he's found the cure for this country's ailing health care system: No more health insurance.
Let Them Eat Emergency Rooms: Mitt Romney Says ERs Will Provide Care for the Uninsured
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/24/12 09:15AMOn 60 Minutes last night, Mitt Romney told Scott Pelley he does too have a solution to the problem of America's millions of uninsured citizens: Send them to the emergency room.
Cancer Patient Tweets Aetna CEO, Gets Him to Cover 'Every Last Penny' of His Medical Expenses
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/02/12 10:57AMStaring down the barrel of bankruptcy, an Arizona State University doctoral student with Stage 4 colon cancer who ran out of insurance money to cover his treatment decided he had nothing to lose by tweeting the CEO of his health insurance company and asking for help.
Three Colorado Hospitals Will Cap or Cover Medical Expenses of Uninsured Aurora Shooting Victims
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/26/12 08:18AMThree of the five Colorado hospitals currently treating those injured in the Aurora theater massacre have announced that they will either limit or erase altogether the medical expenses of uninsured victims.
Catholic Leaders: Providing Birth Control to People in Need Raises "Serious Moral Concerns"
Louis Peitzman · 02/11/12 05:44PM
Well, this isn't exactly surprising. Under pressure from the religious right, Barack Obama made a concession about birth-control insurance coverage — while religious employers will not have to offer free contraceptives to workers, the insurers themselves will have to. It's a compromise he shouldn't have had to make in the first place, and Catholic Church officials (along with prominent Republic leaders) are being dicks about it, anyway.
Sexualizing Kids Sure Is Expensive
Hamilton Nolan · 09/22/11 03:12PMHouse Republicans' Official Proposal: Privatize Medicare
Jim Newell · 04/04/11 02:19PMIf anything will make it easier for House conservatives to back off on shutting down the government this week, it's the prospect of a different, and much larger fight over the federally funded social safety net. House Republicans are preparing to introduce a 10-year budget Tuesday that will eliminate Medicare and replace it with a private insurance system that closely resembles the new health care law, and end Medicaid as an entitlement program all together.
Spoiled Congressional Spouses Want Everything These Days
Jim Newell · 12/27/10 12:22PMTea Party Rep.-elect Joe Walsh is so not hypocritical that he'll turn down his "cushy" government health insurance next year. This sucks for his wife, who "has a pre-existing medical condition and is now forced to hunt for a plan."
Anti-'Obamacare' Congressman Doesn't Understand How Health Insurance Works
Max Read · 11/16/10 02:45AMDaschle: Public Option Was Secretly Nixed Early in Health Care Debate
Jim Newell · 10/06/10 01:29PMMany liberals' long-held theory about the health care reform debate has, essentially, been confirmed in a new memoir: The White House cut a deal with interest groups early on to exclude a public insurance option. Thanks for telling everyone!
Greed is Eternal
Ravi Somaiya · 04/03/10 06:50PMHealth insurance CEO pay doubled to $13.1m. Her company's rates increase 31 per cent.
Did Wilco's Jay Bennett Die Because He Lacked Health Insurance?
The Cajun Boy · 05/25/09 08:52PMToday news broke that Jay Bennett, a singer/songwriter most famous for his work with the band Wilco, died during his sleep on Sunday. Bennett, who earlier in the month sued Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, recently blogged that he needed hip replacement surgery, but lacked health insurance to cover its costs.
Starbucks Giveth Disease, Then Taketh Away
Hamilton Nolan · 02/28/08 11:44AMAnother (self identified) REAL Starbucks employee has come forward to give us a peek behind the coffee company's chipper training day iron curtain of enthusiasm. This tipster confirms that Tuesday's mandatory job training was, in fact, for nerds, but then rises to a stirring defense of the company. The argument: "Sure, I got a nasty case of herpes on my hand because management is too cheap to buy more than one pair of rubber dishwashing gloves for a staff of fifteen. But hey, I'm insured to the hilt, so the Valtrex to quell said herpes is deeply discounted." Solid! The full, amusing email after the jump.