Wonkette
- Medical insurers propose a new health care plan: they will not turn anyone down for coverage, as long as everybody is required to have it. Thorny questions linger regarding affordability and enforcement of a mandate, and Barack Obama has no comment on the industry proposal. [New York Times]
- The Wall Street Journal has a comment on Max Baucus’ healthcare proposal — one that “closely resembles the one Mr. Obama campaigned on”: Sucky sucky. [Wall Street Journal]
- The genome for the woolly mammoth has been sequenced, so scientists can finally figure out how to use Robin Williams’ stem cells to cure Parkinson’s. [Information Week]
- Poland still wants their missile-defense system, but they aren’t going to nag Barack Obama about it. [Washington Post]
- The liberal Democrat Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke out against global warming at a meeting of US governors and their overseas counterparts. [Reuters]
- Unemployment claims are the highest they’ve been in 16 years — 25 if you consider the rolling 4-week average. Prosperity! [MarketWatch]
Blue Cross? Manage everyone’s care? Wouldn’t just be easier and cheaper just to line us against the wall and shoot us?
I concur with the Wall Street Journal: the notion of everyone having access to affordable health care is positively un-American, and if I suddenly find myself living in a country where no one is forced to choose which of his two lacerated fingers he can afford to have reattached, then I’m moving to an abandoned offshore oil platform that’s been claimed as an independent nation by freedom loving Libertarians.
They won’t turn anyone down for coverage, they’ll just continue to turn everyone down for actual reimbursement should you become sick.
Pierce Moffett:
Dude, I knew there had to be a catch.
The woolly mammoth should replace the elephant as the symbol for the Republican Party.
So unemployment levels under Junior are no back to what they were under Senior.
I suppose the symmetry is kind of cute.
i work sixty hours a week and can’t afford health care. My wife works full time too. we’re too “rich” for any gov’t help and too poor to pay both the premiums and deductibles on health insurance. so if we don’t get a national plan, i’d like JUST ONE OF YOU wall street journal types to come up with a better plan.
sorry that i can’t be snarky about this.
How about health care providers become non-profit organizations? The heath care industry seems to be following the housing trend; pushing the costs above and beyond affordability until the bubble bursts. Next comes hospitals and pharmaceuticals invading Washington for bailout cash. They never learn.
wheelie: That’s now, not no, you handsome man.
Wooly mammoths and mastodons roamed North America until those environment-hating Clovis-point bastards killed them off. That’s why there was so much woods when the Europeans got here; no elephants to eat the brush. I say we reintroduce genetically engineered mastodons across the Southwest to replace brush-cutters like Bush. Failing that, elephants. What could possibly go wrong?
Let’s see: there’s denial. . anger . . . bargaining! Hey, we’re up to bargaining already! The insurance companies must have been going to grief counseling ever since Election Day. Soon executives of Aetna, US Healthcare and Blue Cross will be slamming down effexor like there’s no tommorow, before coming to grips with their loss sometime around next June.
Nice try Insurance Companies. Too bad you bet it all on Walnuts and the Repubs.
It would be nice to see you guys get a large piece of what you’ve been giving US Americans all these years when you arrive on Capital Hill to Lobby against Hope.
When is Mitt Romney going to try to take credit for the insurers’ proposal? If he hasn’t done it already, that is. Why the Republicans didn’t vote for that affable Massachusetts socialist I can’t imagine.
BTW, a Polish Government Minister making a joke in reference to President Elect Obama, claimed that Mr Obama’s Grandfather had a little Pole in him because he probably feasted on a Polish Catholic Priest.
And as for the Woolly Mammoths, we could probably use the pubic and armpit hairs of neocons to produce mammoths.
We can use the mammoth meat to pay for Health Insurance.
Oh gee, ain’t it wunnerful of all them insurers to do that.
Only that was a guarantee Bob Dole gave the Clintons back in 93, that he would make sure that the Republicans voted into law a ban on pre-existing restrictions.
I presume that all the health insurance companies are about to go belly up & want into the bailout too.
No fucking way!
Single payer to replace those thieves!
do you think they could send the RIAA to the somalian seas?