WellPoint cuts workers health benefits
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091003/BIZ/910030367/WellPoint+cuts+workers+health+benefits

To those employees getting dropped or their health benefits cut:

Well, now you know ( Read more... )

... and so that I can make a bit of noise on this LJ using my Muppets icon ( Read more... )

From nyceve: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/13/0623/68223

I don't know whether to be excited or afraid. I don't expect the movie'll tell me anything new (I, Miss Extreme who moved countries because of healthcare) but I don't know how anyone could watch it ( Read more... )

Not Dead Yet from Spamalot playing in my head as I can post here after my surgery and say that: It went really well! (Aside from the nausea and starvation I had coming out of anaesthesia because I couldn't hold down my food for several hours after.) So many things (about the care, speed of treatment, ease of getting necessary drugs and diagnosis, ( Read more... )

Finding a lot of good stuff this morning:

From http://www.alternet.org/story/40388/ :When my son was born five years ago in Tel Aviv, the nurse complimented his good health by saying: "He'll make a good soldier." That gave me the chills. The babies he shared the nursery with will ( Read more... )

Never did I think the twain would meet... but they just did.

Death Launches A Diary On Daily Kos

Thankfully, he doesn't type in ALL CAPS all the time.

On the downer side, nyceve covers the cost of anti-nausea medication for chemo patients in the US and contrasts it with the cost of them in Canada. I know you know they'll be cheaper up north, but ( Read more... )

nyceve and bonddad are my favorite writers on DailyKos. Today nyceve revealed what healthcare would be like (in this case, in Dallas) if one ever got into a bad car accident. (I have always wondered.) This was a person with health AND catastrophic insurance. It is fucking depressing reading ( Read more... )

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