Blue Shield of California backs away from 59% rate hike

Blue Shield of California backs away from 59% rate hike CNNMoney.com

Private Insurer Profits? $13 Billion. Medicare Fraud? $48 Billion. Health Reform? Priceless

Private Insurer Profits? $13 Billion. Medicare Fraud? $48 Billion. Health Reform? Priceless. at Forbes

The Court Case Haunting Health Care

The Court Case Haunting HealthCare BusinessWeek

Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy

Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy AP

Sugar Pills Work Even When People Know They Are Fake

Sugar Pills Work Even When People Know They Are Fake at Forbes

Senators Cannot Agree on Fix to the Health Law

Senators Cannot Agree on Fix to the Health Law NY Times

Doctors brace for possible pay cuts for Medicare cases

Doctors brace for possible pay cuts for Medicare cases

GOP investigators take aim at health care overhaul

GOP investigators take aim at health care overhaul

Texas Tribune: Texas Considers Medicaid Withdrawal

Texas Tribune: Texas Considers Medicaid Withdrawal NY Times

On January 1, 2013 ObamaCare Imposes a 3.8% Medicare Tax on Unearned Income

On January 1, 2013 ObamaCare Imposes a 3.8% Medicare Tax on Unearned Income, see http://www.gop.gov/blog/10/04/08/obamacare-flatlines-obamacare-taxes-home.

Medicare: Like Stealing Candy from a Baby

Medicare: Like Stealing Candy from a Baby at Fox Business

ObamaCare Lawsuit Can Go To Trial

ObamaCare Lawsuit Can Go To Trial, see http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/10/15/20101015Health-care-reform-lawsuit-trail.html.

National Health Expenditures as a % of GDP

National Health Expenditures as a % of GDP: In 1960 it was 5.1%. In 1985 it was 10.1%. In 2003 it was 15.3%. In 2009 it was 17.3% of GDP. Obviously, this insanity has to stop.

Source: National Health Expenditures, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; and U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Gov't: Spending to rise under health care overhaul

Gov't: Spending to rise under health care overhaul

Survey: Family health costs soar 14% in 2010

Survey: Family health costs soar 14% in 2010 CNNMoney.com

InoLife Technologies, Inc. to Market a Plavix Metabolizing Test to the Medical Industry

InoLife Technologies, Inc. to Market a Plavix Metabolizing Test to the Medical IndustryMarketwire

The Health Care/Insurance and ObamaCare Disaster

I just got my annual health insurance increase notice from Health Net (who seems to be a good company). It went up +21.16% (not surprising at all compared to prior year's hikes), due to, Health Net says, increased use of new medical technologies, higher prescription drug costs, AND, get this, due to pressure on health insurance plans and the private sector to absorb higher costs, as funding DECREASES for public programs like Medicare and Medicaid (I thought the Feds ramped this up, weird).

Now, here's more bad news related to ObamaCare. If I change my plan to save money I will lose my plan's current grandfather status, AND, the new plan will probably experience substantial (they say "could go up," is there any doubt?) rate hikes due to additional benefits mandated by federal health care reform! Wonderful ObamaCare, which was supposed to at least partially reform some of the cost aspect of the health care system.

There's now zero doubt in my mind (was very close to zero anyway) that ObamaCare will be an unmitigated disaster. Insurance rates will skyrocket EVEN more than they are now, which is already a disaster. Truth is stranger than fiction. That's all for now. Ciao

Keep the health insurance you like? Not!

Keep the health insurance you like? Not! - O.C. Register

When Obama's White House prevented bipartisanship

When Obama's White House prevented bipartisanship Fortune

Op-Ed Contributors: Misled on Medicare

Op-Ed Contributors: Misled on Medicare NY Times