Comments on: Insurance Coverage: We’re Number One! (ADDENDUM: and making the rest of the country look good) http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/ The Ultimate Massachusetts Health Care Insider Information Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Health Care Tips » Blog Archive » Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1968 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:32:41 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1968 [...] Rosman of Health Care for All’s A Healthy Blog argues that the drop in uninsured residents, in part because of higher enrollment in public [...]

]]> By: lotsakats1 http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1967 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:34:48 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1967 >>>>>Bottom line: a decrease in the number of uninsured Americans from 47 million to 45.7 million should not distract us from the underlying fact that our current system is unsustainable, that private coverage is decreasing, and state and local governments are faced with higher and higher health care bills.<<<<

Hang on a second – OMG – I can’t believe what I’m reading! A statement that is TRUE and on THIS SITE!!! Maybe someone IS paying attention to the mess that is our Health Care System…Could it be that there is hope? Oh wait, in my excitement I forgot I was living in Massachussetts – never mind…

]]> By: Ron Norton http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1966 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:33:50 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1966 ?

Considering that Chapter 58 has done nothing to reduce or even control rising costs, and that the feds appear ready to pull the plug on the waiver, I feel certain that our legislators and HCFA are already trying to devise something worse.

]]> By: ? http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1965 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:44 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1965 Ron and Norma,

Aren’t you lucky that they can’t dream up things even worse?

Some D.O.R.Klepto hasn’t suggested a mandate for having insurance on one’s health insurance policy, have they?

]]> By: Wonk Room » Census Data: The Importance Of Public Heath Care Programs http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1964 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:29:51 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1964 [...] 439,000 new residents and cut the number of uninsured nearly in half — is responsible “for 24% of the decline nationally in the number of uninsured.”Last week, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report that underlined the important [...]

]]> By: Norma http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1963 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:28:23 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1963 Massachusetts Health Law is discrimination based on income and the State is proud of this?I’d like to know how much money the insurance companies are making every month?This law was and is created for the insurance companies not the middle class citizens of this State.Why isn’t Health Care For All concerned about All the citizens of Massachusetts?

]]> By: Ron Norton http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1962 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:00:59 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1962 Um, you’re forcing people to buy health insurance or be punished. Tyrrany shouldn’t make anyone proud.

]]> By: ? http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/08/26/insurance-coverage-were-number-one/#comment-1961 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:41:12 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=1824#comment-1961 “…the urgent need for national reform which Senator Kennedy so forcefully emphasized last night.”?

Doesn’t HCFA’s very existence show Edward’s 46 year failure to attain health care for all, and therefore shouldn’t you people be ashamed of yourselves, given his present condition?

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