Cha-Ching! The Insurance Companies Win?

So lemme see if I have this right... women are to wait until they are 50 for a mammogram, till 21 to have a pap smear, and all the research that showed otherwise is in the toilet?

Do you hear the wheels of the insurance industry crushing women's bones? Because I do.
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House Passes Health Care Bill...(Audio)

Last night @ 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill.
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Health Care Reform Showdown...(Audio)

Audio Interview Length: 22:16 This weekend Congress is likely to vote on the Health Care Bill.In this exclusive audio interview Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin(D-Wis) explains America’s Affordable Health Choices Act.
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OFA urging Obama's supporters to call Congress and ask for real health insurance reform with a public option

Organizing for America (OFA) is asking its supporters to call their members of Congress and ask them to support the health insurance reform bill.
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Sen. Feingold: No public option is a "strong reason" not to support health care reform bill

If you're not willing to walk away from a negotiation, then you will get played every time. Feingold sounds as if he might be willing to walk away.
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Huff Post: Obama is actively discouraging Democrats from supporting public option in Senate

From Sam Stein and Ryan Grim at Huff Post: President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform.
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Her insurance premiums just went up 32%

You have to wonder if the insurance industry isn't now gouging us even more, expecting health care reform to only give them 85% of the windfall that they had hoped for.
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Rep Weiner: One Senator is not bipartisanship

From The Hill: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is "half-pregnant" with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which may jeopardize the success of reform.
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Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts say

Great. This is why we need a public option. So that there is a true alternative to the private insurance market.
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POLL: Support for public option grows, Americans want results more than bipartisanship

For the past few months, the public option has faced a barrage of attacks from the insurance industry and its allies on Capitol Hill, both Republicans and Democrats.
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"Even greedier than we imagined"

Robert Reich on how the insurance industry tipped its hand yesterday, by saying they'll have to increase the price of everyone's insurance plans if health care reform is passed: [T]hey've now hoisted themselves on their own insured petard.
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Insurance industry's top lobbyist makes case for public option

Today's New York Times has an article about the back-and-forth between the insurance industry and Democrats over the industry's report attacking the Baucus health care reform bill.
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Health insurance opposition to Baucus bill shows need for public option says Rep. Weiner

The insurance industry came out swinging against the Baucus health care reform bill today. (Even after Baucus and his pals at the White House kissed the industry's butts for months.
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"Dog bites man" news: Insurance industry opposes reform

Big surprise, huh?: Healthcare reform being considered by Congress could cost the typical family $4,000 per year in higher premiums, a new report sponsored by the insurance industry says.
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Rich People With No Health Insurance Worries Vote On Public Option Today

Just sayin'- and frankly, this is about as much of this gobbledy-gook as I'm able to understand...

Apparently I'm not alone.
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Minneapolis doctor gives artists a health care option

Minneapolis doctor gives artists a health care option This is seriously a great story. I love this guy.
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I talked to a health care expert who says the individual mandate is bogus without the public option

I just spoke with a health care expert who filled me on the "individual mandate" - the requirement in the Baucus bill that everyone get insurance.
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Cat fight brewing between administration and insurers

It seems the insurers are lobbying Medicare beneficiaries to reject the Obama/Baucus plan. Which is interesting, since the insurance industry was already bought off by the individual mandate, which some estimates say could send another $1 trillion their way.
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Why all the official Democratic Party attention directed at the Baucus' markup?

Oh the flurry of emails flitting about official Washington in defense of the Baucus health care mark-up today.
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Gee, what a coincidence. Max Baucus suddenly cares about insurance industry abuses.

Oh please. Anyone who doesn't think that Baucus is asking for the investigation, and that the Obama administration granted him the investigation, because of politics needs to have their head examined in a health care co-op.
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