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5 sexual health services insurance will cover… for men
The political flap over the Obama Administration decision to require health insurance companies to cover birth control as preventative care continues apace, even after former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) declared it “a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be,”…
Insurance eligibility improves medical care: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study suggests young adults are more likely to get care and see a doctor when states extend the time they can stay on their parents’ health insurance — a measure also mandated by the 2010 federal health care law. The laws are meant…
Consumers demand insurers cover experimental drugs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When your health insurance provider denies an experimental treatment or a high-cost drug, how much are you willing to pay for the care you believe you need? Barby Ingle, a former cheerleading and dance coach at Washington University who now lives in a Phoenix suburb, has…
Affordable Care Act gives 2.5 million young adults coverage
Defenders of the Affordable Care Act received good news Wednesday morning. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 2.5 million young adults received health insurance, thanks to a provision in the laws which allows people under 26-years-old to stay on their parents’ insurance. The percentage of 19 to 25-year-olds…
Santorum: Americans don’t ‘die because of lack of health insurance’
In a feisty exchange with a student in Sioux Center, Iowa Monday evening, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that, in his opinion, lack of access to health care has no effect on America’s mortality. According to ABC News, the former Pennsylvania senator was pressed by the student asking about…
House raises taxes on people with health insurance, institutes death penalty for f*cking
The House just passed HR3, which was misnamed the No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act. In reality, the law has nothing to do with taxpayer funding. What it does is revokes the tax credit or deduction for health care for any individual or employer who purchases private insurance that covers…
This Is What Grammar Jesus Made Awkward Ellipses For
Megan McArdle, economist-always-in-training, argues against health insurance using quite possibly the worst argument ever: Ezra asks why, if I think thebenefits of health insurance are so minimal, I have health insurance. Revealed preference! Gotcha! But the answer as to why I have health insurance is simple: my employer pays for…
WSJ Poll: 12% of Americans judge the Bush decade ‘good’ or ‘great’
Are we supposed to feel better that the figure isn’t any higher? (Think Progress): According to the poll, a combined 58% said the decade was either “awful” or “not so good,” 29% said it was fair, and just 12% said it was either “good” or “great.” [...] Asked what they…
That’s why we don’t call them “pro-life”
Matt makes a useful point about how anyone who threatens to block health care reform over abortion is a lot of things, but “pro-life” ain’t one of them: That said, it really is worth lingering on the extent to which his threat to hold health reform hostage to an abortion…
It’s time to put the insurance companies out of their misery
If I were on trial for robbing a house, the last thing in the world I would do is give a series of public lectures on cat burglary techniques. “I’m completely innocent,” I’d say, as the sample lock clicked open. “I’ve lived a clean life. Any questions about the order…
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