Posted July, 16 2012 by arianne
A new Commonwealth Fund report released last Friday shows that American women are more likely to go without needed health care because of cost and have a harder time paying for medical bills than women in 10 other countries with unversal health care systems in place. These countries included Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Sweden, […]
Posted July, 13 2012 by arianne
With Wednesday’s repeat vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act (yawn) despite its growing public popularity and so closely following the Supreme Court’s decision to largely uphold the law, it is becoming abundantly clear that the real issue here is not constitutionality of the law or any moral objections to its lifesaving […]
Posted July, 9 2012 by arianne
Have you seen this? There is a letter circulating from Michele Bachmann and 72 other tea party members of Congress urging all 50 state governors not to establish health insurance Exchanges. You can click here to read the letter. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions of course. Basically, the main argument used is that states should not […]
Posted July, 6 2012 by arianne
Keeping in line with our “independence” theme this week, Forbes.com posted a great article on how the recent decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is improving many folk’s financial ability to retire. And just how is it doing that, you ask? Well, there’s a number of ways. Basically, all of […]