Chris Fitzsimon has a new commentary in the latest NC Medical Journal detailing the need for health reform - and why so-called “market-based” solutions are all wet.
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Chris Fitzsimon has a new commentary in the latest NC Medical Journal detailing the need for health reform - and why so-called “market-based” solutions are all wet.
Share and Enjoy: [...]From our friends at Daily Kos, a quick look at one of the newest strategies the national Blue Cross Association and other insurers are using to try and deep six all the parts of health reform they don’t like.
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[...] North Carolina’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity has signed up more than 300 residents for a “Code Red” rally in Washington on health reform.
The group, which opposes the Democrats’ reform bills, plan to rally on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Barb Barrett reports. The national protest by conservatives is [...]
The folks at NC Policy Watch are at the top of their game today, featuring a new postcard calling on Larry Kissell to get serious about health reform. For a guy who sang such a sweet populist song for two years as a candidate, he sure has turned into [...]
Some folks are conducting their own postcard campaign to let Congressman Kissell know their feelings about his vote against health reform:
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In addition to two amendments she promoted Tuesday morning, U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has two others she plans to introduce as the Senate continues debating health reform.
The first amendment would require health insurance companies to report at least once a year on their reimbursement rates paid [...]
An AP report today (I haven’t found it anywhere else yet) has yet another compromise from the Senate on a public option health plan. Here’s the idea – current nonprofit health plans (read NC Blue Cross Blue Shield and other similar nonprofit state plans) would be able to sell [...]
ThinkProgress reports that The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association — of which NC Blue Cross is a member — is working to craft legislation that will allow states to strike down key health reform provisions as unconstitutional. (Thanks to Facing South for highlighting the [...]
Over at BlueNC a couple of filmmakers, Rick Fitts and John Autry, posted a video they made discussing health reform with average North Carolinians.
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Share and Enjoy: [...]The U.S. Senate took its first vote a few minutes ago on the massive health reform bill being considered now on the Senate floor.
The amendment — from U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland and Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine — would protect coverage of mammograms [...]
Adam Searing and Jack McCoy are on the case of Senator Burr’s latest misstatements. The health reform debate is heating up and NC’s Burr is taking the opportunity to bash Medicaid. Only problem – NC’s Medicaid is a model program where innovation is saving millions of dollars while delivering care [...]
Lori Heim, a physician in Vass, serves as president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Here she talks about how unfairly her patients are treated by insurance companies.
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Share and Enjoy: [...]After 20 lawmakers filed a complaint about the anti-health reform campaign of Blue Cross, Gary Robertson of AP reported this:
The state Attorney General’s office confirmed Tuesday it was investigating North Carolina’s largest health insurer for prerecorded calls that started late last month. Based on a preliminary review, some calls [...]
A group of 20 lawmakers today released a letter to the Attorney General and the Insurance Commissioner calling for an investigation into the anti-health reform campaign of Blue Cross.
While sending out misleading fliers and making inflammatory robo-calls Blue Cross potentially violated several state [...]
Someone posted an example of the Blue Cross robocalls on YouTube. When making these calls much more information is required, including a phone number and contact details.
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[...] AARP volunteer Ann Robson explains how her Medicare drug costs drastically increase when she hits the dreaded “doughnut hole” and how health reform bills now in Congress will cut those costs. She fully supports AARP’s endorsement of the House health reform bill.
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U.S. Sen. Richard Burr said on the Senate floor this morning that health reform should empower Americans to make healthier choices.
In a conversation ahead of a key Senate vote Saturday about health reform, Burr criticized the bill put forward by Democrats, reports Barb Barrett. He said [...]
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Buncombe County lawmaker Susan Fisher has joined Ellie Kinnaird, Pricey Harrison, and the Pitt County commissioners in calling for an investigation into anti-health reform mailers and robocalls produced by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
The elected officials are calling [...]
The year was 1994 and President Clinton’s plan to reform health care was being hotly debated. NC Blue Cross was right in the midst of it as usual when then-CEO Ken Otis penned an editorial for the Durham Herald-Sun laying out Blue’s position. It boiled down to three [...]
I want my Congressional representatives to get busy. Sure, they’ve got their hands full with health reform, saving the economy, and – I hope – job creation measures, but I want them to stand up for me and my right to choose. Specifically, I want to choose to deny them [...]
As we’ve noted before, Burr comes up with a new misrepresentation about health reform every month. In a Fox News interview Burr even claimed that no plan being considered in Congress covers the majority of Americans. This despite the fact that every Democratic plan extends health [...]
