US/healthcare

About

Unlike many other developed countries, the United States has no comprehensive national health care system. Health insurance is largely tied to employment in that employer subsidies are necessary in order to make health insurance affordable for most people.

There have been at least two major reform efforts.

Pages

• /costs
• /reform

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia
  • Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States
• Conservapedia (mostly about US): claims that Obamacare is a universal healthcare system
• dKosopedia (mostly about US)
• SourceWatch (mostly about US)
• lessigwiki:Medicine: A collection of references on medicine in the US - must-reads, to-research, and examples of systemic corruption

News

• 2014-05-08 [L..T] My personal Wal-Mart nightmare: You won't believe what life is like working there «The president's visiting my store Friday. He won't see how I sleep on my son's floor and eat potato chips for lunch.»
• 2009-09-04 [L..T] The right way to debate healthcare reform «...the people speaking with Franken were tea party activists who "staked out" Franken's booth at what looks like the state fair "and confronted him loudly when he arrived." .. What ended up happening, though, was a civil, reasoned discussion about the current healthcare situation in the U.S.»
• 2009-07-22 [L..T] Uninsured Travel from Across US for Free Healthcare from Relief Group Remote Area Medical «As debate continues in Washington over healthcare reform, thousands of Americans in neighboring Virginia are preparing to line up this weekend to receive free healthcare provided by a relief organization called Remote Area Medical. We speak to the group's founder, Stan Brock.»
• 2009-07-06 [L..T] How Long Does it Take to Set Up a Health Co-Op? “Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, tells Bloomberg that if existing regional co-ops are the model, such plans can take decades to fully develop.”
• 2008-06-08 [L..T] Senator Graham: McCain's Policies Would "Absolutely" Be An Extension Of Bush's «Senator John McCain has aggressively tried to distance himself from Bush in an effort to avoid being tagged by Democrats as running for Bush's third term. However, as Think Progress notes, McCain's chief surrogate, Senator Lindsey Graham, did not adhere to that message during his appearance on ABC's This Week, with George Stephanopoulos. [..] Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Graham if McCain's tax and healthcare policies are essentially "an extension or maybe an enhancement of the Bush policies." Sen. Graham answered, "Yeah, absolutely."»

Positions

• Woozle

to file

• 2012-12-10 New Trend In Health Insurance: Low-Cost Concierge Medicine: audio with summary
• 2012-11-29 Is Concierge Medicine the Future of Health Care?