by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 11, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
How health insurance changed from protecting patients to seeking profit Transformative technologies rapidly spread across the developed world. Abbott Laboratories made and patented the first intravenous anesthetic, thiopental, in the 1930s. Massachusetts General...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 25, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
Ronald Reagan can really be credited with elevating the idea (the meme) that govovernment is a solution, it really the problem but the Republican party every year since then has accellerated and widened their obstruction to good government doing everything they can to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 27, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
American health care can be free market or cheap. It can’t be both. Republicans need to decide if a conservative health care system is worth the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 24, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
Obamacare repeal was never about health or insurance, it was 100% about cutting taxes for the ultra-wealthy. — Bruce...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 15, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
What liberals get wrong about single payer Michael Moore greeted the introduction of Obamacare with an admission many liberals will cheer. “Obamacare is awful,” he wrote. Its awfulness, Moore said, stems from “one fatal flaw: The Affordable Care Act...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 15, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Health Care
The cost of failure on health care? It may be the rest of Trump’s agenda. In the roiling debate over the plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, there’s a lot more at stake for President Trump than whether the bill can be saved: Its fate could also...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 15, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
The Original Lie About Obamacare If Republicans still pass it, they will take political ownership of the flawed American health care system – after making it much more flawed. Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, has said the bill is so bad that it...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 14, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Health Care
Trading Health Care for the Poor for Tax Cuts for the Rich So much for President Trump’s pledge of “insurance for everybody.” The Congressional Budget Office said on Monday that next year 14 million fewer Americans will have insurance if the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 13, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
Something to really think about and consider in our looking at the state of the Healthcare system we have here in the U.S. Nobel economist takes aim at rent-seeking banking and healthcare industries By Income inequality is not killing capitalism in the United States,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 10, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
Democrats Just Came Up with an Obamacare Replacement That Saves $1.8 Trillion Republican lawmakers expect to have a replacement for the Affordable Care Act in the works by the end of 2017, with an anticipated rollout happening the following year. One Democratic...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 6, 2017 | • Politics, Health Care
Why Republican efforts to “repair” Obamacare are doomed to fail They have a new buzzword but still no...
