I’m not here to defend insurance companies. But in this instance, I have to ask, what the hell do you expect? At this point they are trying to insure their own survival! I received this in my e-mail: From the FEE blog: [no link provided] The health-insurance lobbyist complains that under the proposed healthcare overhaul the penalties on individuals who don’t buy coverage would be too mild and would encourage people to wait until they are sick before buying a policy — at which point

Dems Scramble After Warning From Health InsurersGotta deal with the truth now, Mr. O.Oct 12, 6:17 PM (ET)By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR / My Way AP NEWSWASHINGTON (AP) – Insurance companies aren’t playing nice any more.Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine talks to reporters outside of the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Senate Majority Leader of Nev. announced Thursday that the Finance Committee will vote next week on the health care bill

Following a heady day of Nobel Peace Prize news, President Barack Obama's routine address this morning got back to the nuts and bolts of governing. Once again, as he has numerous times in past weeks, he focused the talk on health care reform, with this week's theme focusing on bipartisan consensus gelling to change the status quo. Gathering momentum, the president proclaimed, is behind what he called the historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American p

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not among those praising Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) for bringing his healthcare bill in well under President Barack Obama’s $900 billion limit.Pelosi (D-Calif.), an advocate of the government-run health insurance option left out of the Senate Finance Committee chairman’s bill, criticized the means by which Baucus kept costs down.Related Posts:Club for Growth Denounces Baucus Healthcare PlanDem healthcare infighting intensifies: Alexander Bolton and Jeffrey YoungDems warn B

One day after saying on the House floor that the Republican plan for health care consists of telling people to die, Florida Congressman Alan Grayson was back on the House floor: Last night, I gave a speech and I’m not going to recount everything I said but after that speech, several republicans asked me to apologize. I would like to apologize. I would like to apologize and here’s why. according to this study, health insurance and mortality in adults which was published two weeks, 44,000