So, question: why not allow everyone access to Medicare? Since Medicare already covers people with expensive conditions (elderly and disabled), wouldn't increasing the number of recipients actually increase its funding (since the new recipients would likely be healthier than the current ones)?

Thoughts.

This pretty much covers everything. As far as I can tell, there are really only two options: require health insurance companies to cover everyone (thus increasing premiums for everyone) or have a government-run option (thus increasing taxes for everyone). Either way, people are going to be paying for it. I'd rather have the money go to the ( Read more... )

The philosophical basis of America's privatized health care system might best be characterized as medical Calvinism. It's fascinating to watch well-educated secularists who recoil at the Protestant obsession with personal virtue, prosperity as a cardinal sign of election by God, and total responsibility for one's own salvation turn into fire-eyed, ( Read more... )

The Bush administration announced its "conscience protection" rule for the healthcare industry Thursday, giving doctors, hospitals, and even receptionists and volunteers in medical experiments the right to refuse to participate in medical care they find morally objectionable ( Read more... )

Why tie health insurance to a job?

I hate to be Captain Obvious, but these guys are asking a question that has an easy answer: to keep sick people from getting it ( Read more... )

The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it would support a health care overhaul requiring insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability. But in return, the industry said, Congress should require all Americans to have coverage ( Read more... )

Wow. Michael Moore's "Sicko" is incredible. You can see it here online: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9006414844032752909Read more... )