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Category Archives: Health Care Insurance
GoFundMe To Pay Cancer Bills is Barbaric – A Friend’s American Horror Story
I don’t often do this, but my writing teacher has breast cancer (that’s her photograph above). On October 4th, her husband lost his job because his employer said it was cheaper to pay a bookkeeper than an accountant. The employer … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Uncategorized
Tagged HealthcareIsAHumanRight
5 Comments
America’s Begging Bowl Society – Why is the richest nation in the world the most heartless to its own people?
On April 30, 2016, I escorted my wife to a charitable dinner where she was one of the principal speakers. She was there to tell her story in order to generate donations for The Hochstein School of Music and Dance. … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Insurance, inequality
Tagged Begging, Charity, Medicaid, Medicare, Pre-existing Conditons, Uninsured
17 Comments
Questions for the GOP candidates at their December 15 debate: 70,000 Cuban refugees coming to the Southern US border
By ann summers Dear GOP POTUS candidates in the 15 December debate on CNN: In the fervor to deny refugee status to Syrians because TERROR, what of the possibly 70,000 Cubans now trying to gain egress past the as yet … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, California, Communism, Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Immigrants, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Media, Mexico, Neoconservatives, New Mexico, Nurses, Physicians, Presidential Elections, Terrorism, Terrorists, Texas, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Law Enforcement, police, Racism, Republicans, Terrorism
5 Comments
Appeals Court Tosses Parking Citation Because Of Missing Comma — Strange News for Fans of SCOTUScare
From AP: MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — An appeals court has agreed with an Ohio woman who said her parking citation should be tossed because the village law was missing a comma. Andrea Cammelleri (kah-meh-LEHR’-ee) says she shouldn’t have been issued … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Denialism, Health Care Insurance, Legal Analysis, Logic, Uncategorized
Tagged Rule of Law, SCOTUScare
5 Comments
Wendell Potter: Court Case Against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Shows How Insurers Rip Off Working People and Their Employers
By Elaine Magliaro Wendell Potter is a former CIGNA executive who became a healthcare industry whistleblower. He is an outspoken critic of the US private health insurance industry–“particularly HMOs, and the sometimes-hidden tactics insurers can use to increase their profits by creatively denying policyholders their … Continue reading
When Catholic Health Care Systems Own Your Doctor: The New Threat to Affordable Birth Control for Women
By Elaine Magliaro Patricia Miller has a chilling article over at Salon titled When the Catholic Church owns your doctor: The insidious new threat to affordable birth control. Miller’s article opens with a story about a woman named Angela Valavanis. … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Democracy, Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals, Religion, Reproductive Rights, Roman Catholic Church, United States, Women's Rights
Tagged Birth Control, Catholic Health Care Systems, Catholic Hospitals, Contraception, Contraceptives, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Vasectomies
14 Comments
Comedian Amy Schumer Responds to Birth Control Debate with Hilarious Prescription Ad Parody
By Elaine Magliaro Comedian Amy Schumer has a killer parody of a contraceptive prescription ad. In it, Schumer “satirizes just how hard it is for a woman to get her hands on birth control, following the commercial’s instructions to ask … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Drug Policy, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Physicians, Politics, Propaganda, Religion, Reproductive Rights, Society, Tea Party, United States
Tagged Amy Schumer, Birth Control, Contraception, Contraceptives, Hobby Lobby, SCOTUS
36 Comments
The Vagina Vigilantes Strike Again!: Republican Members of the House of Representatives Vote to Strike Down D.C. Law That Bans Reproductive Discrimination
By Elaine Magliaro Aaron C. Davis of The Washington Post reported last Thursday that the House of Representatives had “voted along party lines late Thursday to strike down a D.C. law on ideological grounds for the first time in almost … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Jurisprudence, Local Government, Pharmaceuticals, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Reproductive Rights, United States, Women's Rights
Tagged Abortion, Birth Control, Contraception, Contraceptives, District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton, House of Representatives, John Boehner, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Vagina Vigilantes
18 Comments
Picture of the Day for April 22, 2015: On the Subject of Americans’ Access to Doctors and Weapons
Posted by Elaine Magliaro
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Physicians, United States
Tagged Guns, weapons
2 Comments