There is a Reason Why Missouri is 50th in Everything

...or very nearly so....but be careful - Idaho is catching up!

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/02/17/14249/missouri-lawmakers-renew-cynical-efforts-derail-obamacare-navigators

Affordable Care Act BS

There has been a lot of this thrown about over the last year -- all untrue but making for good-sounding popular "twits" (my name for particularly inane or unintelligent Tweets) and providing ammo to the uninformed (or just plain unintelligent).

But, it is interesting to note that TWO former CEOs -  one with a non-profit and one with a for-profit health care insurer (sometimes fondly referred to as "death panels" -- thank you Sarah Palin) have both come out rather strongly that the American health care system is extremely broken...on its good days.

ACA is a start in the right direction, but because the least intelligent among us (politicians) got involved, it still falls short of what other countries have been able to do -- this isn't even a conversation topic there.

First up is George Halvorson, former CEO and chairman of Kaiser Permanante - a not for-profit health plan who just wrote a book Don't Let Healthcare Bankrupt America which I plan on reading. (It is not widely available yet, though Amazon has it for Kindles).   



The other is a person I believe I have referred to before - Wendell Porter who is a former CIGNA executive (and probably not very well liked in his old stomping grounds right now).

We can do better folks --- and the ACA is just a first baby step fouled up by politicians!

Affordable Health Care Act Follies

If you are one of those who suspects that when it comes to the Affordable Health Care Act (called Obamacare by the knuckle-draggers), there is more than the normal amount of outright lies as well as a good deal of "I wish this was true...so I will spout it on the Internet and it will be" type of misinformation out there, you are right.  The non-partisan Center for Public Integrity has compiled a list of the nonsense skewered by one of their regular contributors (a former death-panel...err I mean health insurance company executive!).

(And yes, Ted Cruz is the biggest idiot of all...even fellow Repubs like John McCain are holding their noses.)

The Truth Can Kill You

The insurance industry "death panels" (the insurance companies) hate this guy.  He's a former top industry executive that decided to tell the truth in his book and elsewhere like this column.  I plan to read his book soon, and I am sure that it will make fascinating...and maddening reading.