For Facts Sake: U.S. Health Care Lags Others

New anti-Obamacare ads are Classic Koch

Real journalism uncovers the conservative lies

Fact-checker finds Hannity wanting

Medican't - "Taker" States

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A Mom's Message To John Boehner And Ted Cruz

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The Official Health Plan Marketplace For New York State

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NY State of Health is an organized marketplace designed to help people shop for and enroll in health insurance coverage. Individuals, families and small businesses will be able to use the Marketplace to help them compare insurance options, calculate costs and select coverage online, in-person, over the phone or by mail. The Marketplace will help people to check their eligibility for health care programs like Medicaid and sign up for these programs if they are eligible. The Marketplace will also be able to tell what type of financial assistance is available to applicants to help them afford health insurance purchased through the Marketplace. Insurance coverage can be purchased through NY State of Health beginning in October 1, 2013 

Why Do 6 Bags Of Salt Water Cost You $546

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Medicare For All

Why Repealing Obamacare Is A Horrible Idea

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The US Healthcare System - Government Sanctioned Extortion

The US Healthcare System - Government Sanctioned Extortion
"I've been calling the for-profit health insurance industry "government sanctioned extortion" for a few years now. It wasn't until I read Time magazine's cover story this week, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us" that I realized that the whole medical industrial complex is complicit in the crime! And some of the worst offenders are the so-called "non-profit" hospitals that are raking in billions of dollars in profits and their obscenely paid executives."

Disgrace: Pre-Existing Conditions Like Totaled Car or Burned Down House

Universal Theme Park Will Drop Health Coverage For Its Part-Time Workers To Avoid Obamacare

Universal Theme Park Will Drop Health Coverage For Its Part-Time Workers To Avoid Obamacare: Universal Orlando, a theme park resort in Florida that generates more than $1 billion dollars in annual revenue, plans to drop insurance coverage for its part-time employees at the end of this year — a tactic to avoid providing its workers with adequate health benefits under Obamacare. The health care reform law attempts to put [...]/p

Hospital Chain Flouts NLRB Order After Court Ruling On Recess Appointments

Hospital Chain Flouts NLRB Order After Court Ruling On Recess Appointments: Last week’s radical federal appeals court ruling that called into question hundreds of presidential recess appointments made over the last 150 years is already taking a toll. While the decision finding unconstitutional President Obama’s appointment last January of three members to the National Labor Relations Board invalidated just one particular NLRB decision, a hospital chain declared this [...]/p

Court Ruling on Labor Board a Bid to Return to Era of Open Season on Workers | Common Dreams

Court Ruling on Labor Board a Bid to Return to Era of Open Season on Workers | Common Dreams
"The appeals court ruling Friday overturning President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board is a huge gift to Wall Street, big corporations and the politicians they control who have worked for years to overturn protections for working people in the U.S.

In healthcare the implications are especially insidious. It is a clear assault on the ability of nurses to act collectively to improve safety standards and public protections for patients. If nurses are unable to speak out for patients and act together to safeguard conditions, all patients are threatened in an era in which most hospital employers place their bottom line above patient safety."