Tag: affordable care act

Good for Bob Etheridge

June 27, 2012 at 12:55 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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From an article this morning in Politico about lawmakers who lost their seats in Congress in 2010 — at least in part as a result of their votes in support of the Affordable Care Act:

“Former Rep. Bob Etheridge has little doubt that his health care vote cost him his reelection in 2010.

But now, as he tends cattle on his North Carolina farm and awaits an epic Supreme Court ruling on the most consequential legislative vote of his Capitol Hill career, he’s got no regrets: ‘I wouldn’t have lost if I hadn’t voted for it, but there’s a time when you gotta do the right thing. And I did the right thing….’ Read More…

Even Republicans still like most of what’s in health care reform law

June 25, 2012 at 3:30 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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(Cross-posted from The Maddow Blog)

By Steve Benen

I saw a familiar headline over the weekend: “Most Americans oppose health law but like provisions.” It’s been the only consistent trend when it comes to polling on the Affordable Care Act: the public has been conditioned to reject “Obamacare,” but Americans don’t really know what’s in it. When asked about the provisions of the law, however, they’re quite popular.

That was the case in 2009, 2010, and 2011. And the new Reuters-Ipsos poll suggests nothing has changed.

In this case, Greg Sargent obtained the poll internals and found, “What’s particularly interesting about this poll is that solid majorities of Republicans favor most of the law’s main provisions, too.”

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Cost Scarier Than Ovarian Mass

May 9, 2012 at 9:33 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Yesterday I spent the day with oncologists planning surgery to remove a large mass on my ovary. Everything happened so quickly. I went to my Primary Care Doctor on Thursday and by Tuesday I was facing very scary surgery. The mass may or may not be malignant but it is making me very ill and has to come out. The surgery is expensive and involves several days in the hospital. The first words out of my mouth to my PCP were “Send me to UNC they will work with me on a payment plan I can afford”. I did not say get me the best oncologist. I think UNC has the best but I should not have to think about cost first.

I am in debt for health care now due to my Multiple Sclerosis. I live a very healthy lifestyle. I am 49 years old am unlucky enough to have a Progressive form of MS and now have to have radical surgery and I do not know what else. I am trying not to think of the cost.

Congressman Price when I was in his office in Washington in March thought everyone with MS automatically gets disability and Medicare. I can’t get it. We are middle class homeowners who were scraping by with one major illness. Now we have two major illnesses to deal with to deal with.

My Doctors feel badly because I do all the right things and yet I have bad luck and bad genetics. I want to pay my medical bills and will but I do not think in this country people should lose their homes or retirements over a hospital bill.

Charlotte O: Hospitals can and should do more

April 30, 2012 at 8:46 amCategory:Uncategorized

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The Charlotte Observer has an excellent editorial this morning calling on the hospital industry to do more to help vulnerable consumers.

As the editorial makes pretty clear, Carolinas HealthCare System ought to start by removing the lien on Joyce Jones’ home.

After two years the Affordable Care Act looks better and better

March 8, 2012 at 9:49 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Adam Searing has an excellent op-ed this morning in Raleigh’s News & Observer explaining what a disaster it would be if the U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down.

You can read it here.