tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post3614885973016909363..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: It Takes a Neoliberal VillageKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-89986467784786857082015-02-14T20:23:51.088-05:002015-02-14T20:23:51.088-05:00Why is it not surprising that the loathsome Hillbi...Why is it not surprising that the loathsome Hillbillary should ally herself with the equally loathsome Dr.(?) Bill Frist in a totally pretentious effort to "Save the Chil'uns?" <br /><br />Answer: It gives Hillbillary bogus "across-the-aisle" street-cred come 2016, and rescues <i> Dr. </i> (and I use the term <i> very </i> loosely) Frist from total--and well-deserved--obscurity.<br /><br />As always in American politics, one dirty hand greases the other to the pathetic satisfaction of both, but to the total disgust of the electorate.<br /><br />Or not. <br /><br />One can fool ALL of the people SOME of the time, and SOME of the people ALL of the time. And that, alas, is usually ENOUGH.<br /><br />I already dread 2016.Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-88093674681977129692015-02-14T01:13:56.929-05:002015-02-14T01:13:56.929-05:00Feels like shouting into the void, doesn't it?...Feels like shouting into the void, doesn't it?<br /><br />As Mrs. Clinton's campaign comes into focus we'll be lucky if we can find a centimeter of distance between her and Jebbie (or any of the other neolib/cons running as more Republican than she).<br /><br />I can feel a universal gag reflex building into a tidal wave among lucid onlookers. Here in NC I don't run into anyone who has a good word to say about Hillary - and all my friends are Democrats!<br /><br />Maybe this will serve as the national moment of clarity we've been anxiously awaiting that will usher in necessary legal/political change.<br /><br />Although there are a heck of a lot of rich people who will be fighting hard to stop it.Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-56442939261727790032015-02-13T18:05:17.173-05:002015-02-13T18:05:17.173-05:00Once again, Karen, you have nailed it!
Astronomic...Once again, Karen, you have nailed it!<br /><br />Astronomical healthcare costs and lack of access continue to drive families past their breaking point while insurance companies continue to soak-up billions of healthcare dollars as millions of children's basic needs go unmet.<br /><br />"You can no more make an agreement with them than you can nail currant jelly to the wall. And the failure is not due to the nail. It's due to the currant jelly." – Theodore Roosevelt<br /><br />They blame it on the “kid glitch” in the Affordable Care Act.<br /><br />“In a state that is already turning away federal money by not expanding Medicaid because legislators want to thumb their noses at the president and the Affordable Care Act instead of helping citizens get health insurance, losing CHIP money would be a severe blow. Child care advocates hope Congress will renew CHIP funding for at least another few years until the “kid glitch” in the federal health law can be fixed.”<br /><br />http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/editorial-don-t-let-chip-funding-run-out-for-missouri/article_3923c249-b934-55cf-8190-602b5ae54aa6.html<br /><br />The Center for Children and Families of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute report on Arizona children who lost CHIP coverage and lessons learned for the future:<br /><br />Fourteen thousand children in Arizona lost their health insurance at the end of January 2014 when the state ended its KidsCare program for low-income children, becoming the only state in the country without an active Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).<br /><br />Georgetown researchers found that former Arizona CHIP enrollees switching over to the exchange likely would have to buy coverage that was anywhere between two and eight times more expensive and with fewer benefits. The poorest families and those with more than one child would face the largest cost increases, even with subsidies, because of the exchange plans' high out-of-pocket costs, they found.<br /><br />http://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Dismantling-CHIP-in-Arizona.pdf<br /><br />A study on the “Inequities in Health Care Needs for Children with Medical Complexity,” published in the December 2014 issue of Health Affairs on children’s health:<br /><br />“Children with special health care needs are believed to be susceptible to inequities in health and health care access. Within the group with special needs, there is a smaller group of children with medical complexity: children who require medical services beyond what is typically required by children with special health care needs…We found that children with medical complexity were twice as likely to have at least one unmet need, compared to children without medical complexity. Among the children with medical complexity, unmet need was not associated with primary language, income level, or having Medicaid. We conclude that medical complexity itself can be a primary determinant of unmet needs.”<br /><br />http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/12/2190.abstract<br /><br />“Because of the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act we need to return to the negotiating table to fix our health care system. But when we do, let’s not start from a position of compromise, thereby allowing private insurers to continue to inflict these abuses on us. Let’s begin with a bona fide single payer system – an improved version of Medicare that covers everyone.” - Don McCanne, Physicians for a National Health Program<br /><br />http://pnhp.org/blog/2015/02/09/elisabeth-rosenthals-insured-but-not-covered/Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.com