What you need to know about “premium support” and Medicare…

…especially as it pertains to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.

Read it and learn to counter the myths floating around out there.

And thanks, Leftover, for the link.

A lil’ poem to light your way

What History Fails to MentionWhat history fails to mention is

Most everybody lived their lives
With friends and children, played it cool
Left truth & beauty to the guys
Who tricked for bigshots, and were fools.

Gary Snyder
from Left Out in the Rain
North Point Press, 1986 

(via 3QD)

And, for more of your reading pleasure: Why Washington Accepts Mass Unemployment.

And thanks, Leftover, for the inspiration.

Ah, me.

And thanks, DickG., for the link.

Ladies? What does Obamacare mean for you, really?

I have a new monthly column at Connecticut Health I-Team. You can read it here.

The United States of the Uninsured

And thanks, DickG., for the link.

And with that, I bid you a fond see-you-later. Have a great weekend and see you back here on Monday.

Hey, Leftover! Mitt just may be your man.

I agree with Sharon, who put this on Facebook and then I stole it. This sounds like single-payer to me: Everybody in. Nobody out.

How this die-hard, conservative lost her fear of universal health care

Read this and maybe you’ll lose your fear, too.

And thanks, Leftover, for the link.

Well, go figure.

And thanks, Sharon H.

Ladies? What can Obamacare do for you?

Why, here‘s a handy-dandy list!

And you’re welcome.

Two words in regard to Obamacare: Single payer

Leftover sends Robert Weissman’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision last week. Weissman writes:

In upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court lets stand legislation that offers some important benefits, but only to a portion of those who are uninsured, and will predictably fail to solve our nation’s health care crisis.

However the health reform law ultimately plays out, we know two things for certain: Tens of millions of Americans will remain uncovered as will tens of millions of under-insured who will remain at risk of financial ruin if a major illness strikes; and it will leave the private health insurance and pharmaceutical industries in charge of prices and life-and-death treatment decisions.

There is a single solution to the challenges of providing coverage to the 50 million who are uninsured that would curb out-of-control health care costs and provide a humane standard of care to all who enter the medical system. That solution is an improved Medicare-for-All, single-payer system.