Education

Hear My Story, Hear Our Stories: First Lady Michelle Obama on How Health Insurance Reform Can Help Women

September 18, 2009 by MOMocrats

ACTION: Rally for Health Care Reform

September 18, 2009 by Daily Kingfish

Big insurance gets richer by rationing and denying health care. Our elected officials are paying homage to big insurance rather than to us. We cannot afford to wait. We must demand NOW the American Plan which includes the public option. The public option is the only thing large enough and ready enough to bring down health care costs while creating competition for unfettered big insurance. In Louisiana, 2 companies control 74% of the market and everyday Louisianians have no say-so.

Please join us Wed, Sept 23 from 6 to 7 PM to show the nation and our elected officials that we want substantial health care reform NOW. Let's keep the momentum going! Please sign up for this gathering right away!

Click here to register.

The event details are:

Big Insurance--Sick of It
Poydras and Magazine, The Hale Boggs Federal Building, outside Senator Landrieu's office

Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009, 6:00 PM

College Students: The lost generation of workers?

September 18, 2009 by Future Majority

We all know the economy have been on a bit of a rough patch to say the least, and as a result of that students across every college campus in the Nation are facing similar worries. Tuition costs are rising, healthcare costs are rising, and really about every other cost out there is rising too. Students have had to increase their work loads and do everything they can to have some extra cash.

Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare luxury and retirement security is something for their parents, not them. In fact, many—younger than 35—still live at home with their parents because they can’t afford to be on their own.

The idea of moving out when your 18 and graduated high school and can start your own life is turning into stay with mom and dad as long as possible until I graduate college and maybe get a decent job.

U.S. health insurance premiums go up and up and up some more

September 18, 2009 by hummingbirdminds

Reuters’s reporter Susan Heavey reports this:

U.S. workers getting health insurance for their families through employers have seen their premiums more than double in the last decade and the trend toward higher health costs is expected to continue, according to two reports released on Tuesday.

The Kaiser Family Foundation said the average premium for a company-provided family health insurance plan rose from $5,791 in 1999 to $13,375, a 131 percent jump.

Separately, the Business Roundtable, an organization that represents large U.S. corporations, said per-employee costs will jump to $28,530 in 2019 from $10,743 currently if nothing is done.

Read the entire article at http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58E45420090915

My only comment: Yes, I know – personally.

Stand Aside US Senate and Let the US House Reform Health Insurance and Health Care Now

September 17, 2009 by Celtic_Divas_Bl...

http://documents.nytimes.com/b...

The good Senator Baucus has shown America his hand at the table of Health Care reform, and progressive constituents are not impressed.  This bill offers no public option (a catch phrase whose complete meaning has yet to be fully evaluated), and it does nothing to regulate the for profit, private, multi-payer, health insurance industry.  

Here is a copy of the current text of the bill titled Chairman's Mark America's Healthy Future Act of 2009.  I was not able to pull a copy from the thomas.loc.gov.  

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11...

Here is what the Insurance Journal thinks of this bill.  

http://www.insurancejournal.co...

I am very disturbed that the Insurance Journal describes the bill in these terms

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.)