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• [Bay Area Houston] Time to give thanks

  —Politicker TX - Texas Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis

  This is always a special time. So while you are gathered around the turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie waiting to over eat then sit and watch the football game on your new flat screen tv, take a moment to give thanks. Give thanks if your family can afford health insurance [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:53am EST
  by johncoby@sbcglobal.net (John Coby)

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• What’s a Woman To Do?

  —MOMocrats™

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  MOMocrats welcomes guest author Linda Tarr-Whelan's comments on the health insurance reform bill and the promise it holds for women and children. Please support the MomsRising campaign at the post's end!

  Health care for women is in the news these days. But what does it all mean?  Having just researched for my [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:38am EST
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• The Senate Health Care Bill: 5 Paragraphs You Must Read

  —Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels

  Here it is:
  What most of us know about the Democratic bill is that it requires nearly all Americans to have health insurance. What most of us don't know is that it requires us to buy a minimum level of insurance approved by the federal government, and forces health' [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:33am EST
  

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• Bad Deeds for 11-23-2009

  —The WAWG Blog

    Woman Loses Health Insurance for Smiling on Facebook – Nathalie Blanchard, 29, took long-term sick leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, more than a year ago for severe depression. She was receiving monthly benefits from her insurance company, Manulife. When Blanchard called Manulife to inquire why the [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:13pm EST
  by Jim Vogas

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• More Proof We Were Lied To

  —musings

  What? Tort reform hasn't lowered the cost of health care in Texas? What??? I feel duped. Same feeling I got when I found out electricity deregulation did not result in the promised lower electricity bills. And I got that same bad feeling when I was told that insurance' [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:30am EST
  

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• Health Care Measure Passes Key Senate Hurdle

  —Whosplayin.com

  Yea! The Senate will debate and pass this, then the conference committees will have to hammer out the differences between the House and Senate versions, then each chamber will vote again, then the President will sign.
  
  
  
  I think I hear some insurance company executives hopes for continued [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:35pm EST
  

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• Health Care Hypocrisy : The GOP's Nutty Screaming

  —The Rag Blog

  "Wait Times!" Cartoon by Matt Bors.The GOP's health care nuttinessAnd the insurance industry backstoryThe problem the right has with health care reform is not that it represents intrusive government (it doesn’t). It’s that it doesn’t represent the kind of intrusive, authoritarian government they like.By Glenn W. Smith / The Rag [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:01am EST
  

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• [Bay Area Houston] Bend over, you are in good hands....

  —Politicker TX - Texas Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis

  After the 2003 insurance welfare act, rates have skyrocketed, and it only gets better, or worse:
  Home insurance rates will jump an average 9.8 percent next month for thousands of Allstate customers.
  

  The increase will start Dec. 17 as policies come up for renewal and affect 143,000 customers of [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:46pm EST
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• Bend over, you are in good hands....

  —Bay Area Houston

  After the 2003 insurance welfare act, rates have skyrocketed, and it only gets better, or worse:
  Home insurance rates will jump an average 9.8 percent next month for thousands of Allstate customers.

  The increase will start Dec. 17 as policies come up for renewal and affect 143,000 customers of [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

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• Bendover. Allstate is raising rates.

  —South Texas Chisme

  Home insurance rates will jump an average 9.8 percent next month for thousands of Allstate customers.
  
  The increase will start Dec. 17 as policies come up for renewal and affect 143,000 customers of Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance. It's the Allstate unit's second increase this year.Greed is revered in [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

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• Kaufman Bar Meeting- Elections and Insurance Disclosures

  —Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog

  This past Wednesday was the final Kaufman County Bar meeting for 2009. What a difference a year makes. It was only twelve short months ago when a dozen lawyers met for what was only then 5th KCB meeting of the year and elected Tracy Booker, myself, Keena Greling, and [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:06am EST
  by Robert Guest

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• The headline says it all

  —Houston's Clear Thinkers

  The fundamental problem with the American health care finance system is that reliance on tax-deductible, employer-based health insurance and government subsidized insurance (such as Medicaid, Medicare) created a culture since WWII in which consumers of health care at the... [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• One big reason Senate health care bill is good

  —SocraticGadfly

  This one reason, from Ezra Klein, is enough:
  7) Forcing insurers to spend 80 percent of all premium dollars on medical care (75 percent in the individual market), thus capping the money that can go toward administration, profits, etc.
  Assuming it's enforced, without loopholes, the Scrushys of the insurance [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:22pm EST
  

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• Reid Rushes Health Insurance Reform Vote

  —Pondering Penguin

  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
  
  From Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)on the health insurance reform bill in the Senate:
  
  "What we do know so far, as reported by" [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:57pm EST
  

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• Margo has joined the race

  —Vaqueros & Wonkeros

  Businessman Dee Margo has decided to run against State Rep. Joe Moody for the District 78 seat. The chairman and CEO of JDW Insurance told the El Paso Times two weeks ago that he was not interested in the state... [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  by Zahira Torres

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• Uninsured Trauma Patients Likely To Die

  —jobsanger

  
  We have known for quite a while that people without insurance have a greater chance of dying than those who have insurance. Those without insurance are less likely to be screened for many cancers or admitted to a hospital for procedures like heart bypass surgery. [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:02am EST
  

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• [Bay Area Houston] Twashing TWIA

  —Politicker TX - Texas Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis

  What a load of TWIA crap, but what can you expect from an insurer of last resort when TWIA:
  is a pool of all property and casualty insurers operating in the state. TWIA is governed by a nine-member board dominated by insurance company representatives.

  TWIA is now being sued for [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:39am EST
  by johncoby@sbcglobal.net (John Coby)

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• Twashing TWIA

  —Bay Area Houston

  What a load of TWIA crap, but what can you expect from an insurer of last resort when TWIA:
  is a pool of all property and casualty insurers operating in the state. TWIA is governed by a nine-member board dominated by insurance company representatives.
  
  TWIA is now being [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:39am EST
  

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• Texas dings State Farm for overcharging

  —South Texas Chisme

  Did somebody forget to pay a political bill or is this election season?Texas' insurance commissioner is ordering State Farm Lloyds to pay home insurance policyholders $310 million in refunds and interest for overcharges going back as far as 2003.' [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:38am EST
  

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• Republicans : Hypocricy as a Pre-Existing Condition

  —The Rag Blog

  Republican Chairman Michael Steele says abortion coverage has been removed from the party's insurance policy.Republican Party insurance policyHas covered abortion for eighteen yearsBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2009A few days ago, 176 Republicans joined a few blue dog Democrats in voting to attach the odious [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  

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• Ellis County Insurance Policies Won’t Allow for Sex Changes

  —The Ellis County Observer

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  I’m sure that many of the county employees we have are going to be disappointed: From County Auditor Mike Navarro Employees' COUNTY PROVIDED insurance policies do NOT pay for sex changes. Quoting directly from our medical & prescription drugs benefit booklet: MEDICAL LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS item "25. Any services or supplies provided for, in'" [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• Women Have Been Asked to Give Away Too Much in the Name of Party Unity

  —aArdvarking

  This week I have been pondering the implications of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which bans abortion coverage from federally subsidized health insurance policies.
  
  And I am appalled.
  
  Basically, women have been thrown under the bus for the sake of this compromise and the need for a Democratic win. It's' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:55am EST
  

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• GOP Funds Abortions

  —Dungeon Diary

  No really! Their health insurance program for the Republican National Committee actually pays for abortions. The hypocritical votes of Republicans forcing a "no publicly funded abortions" clause in the health insurance reform is amazingly cynical.
  
  Of course I should have expected no less.Dungeon Diary [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:33pm EST
  

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• Tonight’s Irony Alert

  —Relaxed Politics

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  OK, who is surprised by this? The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.” Congressional repigs, on the other hand ….. A spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee – the campaign arm for the House [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:42pm EST
  by Texas Betsy

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• RNC Hypocrites

  —Rhetoric & Rhythm

  Hypocricy exposed at the RNC
  
  The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
  Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  by Mike Thomas

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• Jail Time for Not Buying Insurance Isn't Just a Republican Rumor

  —Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels

  It's true.
  Pelosi: Jail time “very fair” for failing to buy your patriotic ObamaCare coverage
  Democrats are fearful of having to admit that people actually choose not to get insurance, so, she thinks throwing people in jail for it is "fair."
  Of course, the other option is to make' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:20pm EST
  

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• Here comes the unemployment tax increase

  —Off the Kuff

  Here comes that unemployment insurance tax hike we’ve all been waiting for.

  Under state law, the state’s unemployment trust fund is supposed to stand at 1 percent of taxable wages, or about $860 million. The fund has been depleted in the wake of high jobless claims.

  As a result, [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:24am EST
  by Charles Kuffner

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• Sesame Street and The Muppets Help Explain Health Care Reform

  —Relaxed Politics

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  Here are three Sesame Street inspired explanations of the three core concepts that make up the current health care reform bill. If you can remember these three, you should be good to go: 1. It’s Not Easy Being Sick (Insurance Regulations) It’s not that easy bein’ sick Denied insurance ’cause my illness pre-exists. I [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:36pm EST
  by Pellora

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• REALITY CHECK: Rising unemployment insurance taxes

  —Texas Politics

  The issue: Texas employers next year will pay more than twice the $1.09 billion in jobless insurance taxes they'll pay this year. The taxes will go up more in the following years. The increase is meant to restore the unemployment...

  
  

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:49pm EST
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• REALITY CHECK: Rising unemployment insurance taxes

  —Texas Politics

  The issue: Texas employers next year will pay more than twice the $1.09 billion in jobless insurance taxes they'll pay this year. The taxes will go up more in the following years. The increase is meant to restore the unemployment...

  
  

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:49pm EST
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