In 1972, after a month of deliberation, Congress launched the nation’s most ambitious experiment in universal health care: a change to the Social Security Act that granted comprehensive coverage under Medicare to virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure, regardless of age or income. It was a supremely hopeful moment. Although the technology to keep […]
What Health Care Reform Means for Medicare Programs
Using results from a questionnaire [2] we did with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network [3], we’re looking at how the proposed health care reforms will actually affect people facing common health care coverage situations. This is the third in a series (Part 1 [4], Part 2 [5]). Graydon DeCamp Age: 75 Location: Elk Rapids, […]
Injured War Zone Contractors Fight to Get Care From AIG and Other Insurers
Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington — Civilian workers who suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home to a grinding battle for basic medical care, artificial limbs, psychological counseling and other services. The insurance companies responsible for their treatment under taxpayer-funded policies have routinely denied the […]
Solving America’s Mortgage Crisis
As a native born American of the baby boomer generation who has watched both our leadership and economy now disintegrate progressively from the 50’s Eisenhower era (there were a few high points, but very few), perhaps when Mr. Obama is searching for some solutions for the mortgage crisis now occurring in this country, he might […]
US details Toxic asset programme
The US has given details of a $500bn (£343bn) plan to encourage private investors to buy up toxic assets. The plan will offer subsidies in the form of low-interest loans to private investors to encourage them to buy troubled mortgages and other loans. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said […]
Video of Obama discusses stimulus plan in California
As he voiced outrage over bonuses paid to executives of a giant insurance firm propped up by taxpayer-funded bailouts, President Barack Obama assured Californians on Wednesday that they won’t be left behind in efforts to turn around the economy. Before an enthusiastic throng at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, Obama delivered a populist […]
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