Video http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2635796n ... Drug companies had a deep hand in steering the Medicare prescription drug bill...
William, 1) Typically, how much does a company save by self-insuring? 2) Typically, how large (# of employees) does a company have to be before it starts...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/washington/19drug.html ... A pillar of the Democrats' program tumbled on Wednesday when the Senate blocked a proposal to let...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/opinion/21sat1.html ... If private health plans are supposedly so great at delivering high-quality care while holding down...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/23/pf/ssmc_trustees_report/?postversion=2007042318 ... Meanwhile, Medicare continues to be in much worse shape than Social ...
Thanks for the reply. Follow-up question: Now if large companies benefit from "self-insuring", why shouldn't we as a country "self-insure" our health care...
You have hit on the reason for single payer universal health - the idea that self-insuring works for massively large groups. But relatively small health ...
Medicare is a victim of a system that must recover the cost of over 500 insurance company forms for the same procedure, and an information system for health...
... idea that ... I have not seen single-payer advocates use this as an argument, but it makes sense to me. If companies self-insure, why shouldn't we as a...
I'm not sure of the logic here. Government agencies are grossly inefficient and can find more ways to waste and redirect money that you can imagine. I think...
... *SOME* government agencies are grossly inefficient, but so are *SOME* private companies. Don't just focus on the profit line of those private companies,...
I should have expanded on my thought process. I see this as a competitive bidding process which should get us the most bang for the buck. An awful lot of the...
The competitive side of health insurance is the company competing with the consumer - rather weird, but that is how money is made in this business. You fight...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/washington/07medicare.html ... Insurance companies have used improper hard-sell tactics to persuade Medicare recipients to...
LOL - Gibson and Fox News are getting desperate in their attempt to kill discussions of single payer universal health! From: andylang@yahoogroups.com...
How would my parents recover a pension check that has gone past its expiration date. We live in Texas and they have no idea who to turn to. Can you give them...
Contact the institution that issued the now out of date check and ask to have it re-issued. It will not be a problem. From: andylang@yahoogroups.com...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/80fa0a2c-49ef-11dc-9ffe-0000779fd2ac.html ... The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/31/magazines/fortune/deficit_sloan.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007090408 ... There will be lots of celebrating in Washington...
The only real way to get the true deficit (true being cash basis only - they ignore liabilities for future spending already contracted for - there is no report...
Bill Clinton had a real honest to God surplus in only one year - and that was a calendar year (1/1/2000 to 12/31/2000 - and of course that was reflected in...
Medicare Costs and Retirement Security by Alicia H. Munnell IB#7-14 Introduction Most of the discussion of retirement security focuses on declining Social...
Ben Stein: Entitlements `Bankrupt' U.S. Today Ben Stein, the economist, commentator, and one-time Nixon speechwriter, also well known for film and TV roles,...
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... I spoke to the head of the program over at Boston College a few years ago when his book came out that claimed fairness between generations was not being...
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