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healthcarelegislation https://www.dailykos.com/news/healthcarelegislation News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:36:15 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:36:15 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) KaiserPerm's $900mil new HQ in Oakland, new CEO, & December 16 strike is ON. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/12/16/1905934/-KaiserPerm-s-900mil-new-HQ-in-Oakland-new-CEO-amp-December-16-strike-is-ON UPDATE: 17 Dec, SanFranciscoCBS: <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/12/17/kaiser-permanente-mental-health-workers-strike-day-2/" target="_blank" title="">KP strike day two</a> _______________________________________________________ <blockquote> Four thousand Kaiser mental health workers across California will go on strike Monday for five days, highlighting an unresolved labor issue for the health giant even after it agreed a new contract with other portions of its workforce. Kaiser has been in negotiations with its mental health workers, who are represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, or NUHW, since June 2018. The union postponed a strike scheduled for Nov. 11 after Kaiser’s Chairman and CEO <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/search/results?q=Bernard%20Tyson" target="_blank">Bernard Tyson</a> died the day before. <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/search/results?q=Greg%20Adams" target="_blank">Greg Adams</a> was named to fill both positions Dec. 10. Workers and their union say the strike centers on what they say is Kaiser’s inability to fully integrate mental health care into its health system. This has led to months-long waits for patient appointments and what mental health workers call overwhelming caseloads…. —<a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/12/13/4-000-kaiser-mental-health-workers-will-strike.html" target="_blank">Bizjournals.com Dec. 13, 2019</a> </blockquote> Of overarcing concern, <a href="https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/kaiser-permanente" target="_blank">workplace violation records</a> with roughly $39million in penalties on KP the past decade in California alone, the staggering revenues KP takes in, staggering compensation packages for executives, and huge investments in real-estate, while front-line staff remains at levels inadequate to meet patient needs. 🔷 <h3>KP’s National Billion$$</h3> rss@dailykos.com (mettle fatigue) AffordableHousing BayArea California CaliforniaDepartmentOfManagedHealthcare companytown EnterpriseCommunityPartners ExecutiveOrders financialdisclosure HealthCare healthcarelegislation HealthInsurance HealthMaintenanceOrganizations HMO HMOs Homeless Housing KaiserPermanente Labor LanePartners Malpractice ManagedHealthCare medi-cal Medicaid MedicalInsurance Medicare MentalHealth MentalIllness NationalUnionofHealthcareWorkers NorthernCalifornia Oakland OaklandCA PatientDumping physiciansforanationalhealthprogram ProPublica Psychologists SocialDeterminantsofHealth socialworkers SouthernCalifornia Strikes Therapists Unions Workplace _1905934 Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:16:04 +0000 Why Health Care Reform is a Winner for Democrats https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/22/849347/-Why-Health-Care-Reform-is-a-Winner-for-Democrats There has been a lot made by Republicans recently about the amount of opposition to the health care legislation that has now passed Congress and is set to become law (pending the addition of the reconciliation fixes in the Senate).   Republicans have argued that this is a hugely unpopular bill that "nobody likes." rss@dailykos.com (DemInSCar) CNN healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform Polls _849347 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:53:39 +0000 2010 Anti-Wall Street/Anti-D.C. Populist Memes Emerge In MA https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/18/826310/-2010-Anti-Wall-Street-Anti-D-C-Populist-Memes-Emerge-In-MA Multiple dovetailing articles in Monday's NY Times provide us with interesting analyses, since they support the qualitative reality that a populist (anti-Wall Street, if you're a Dem; anti-D.C., if you're a GOPer) meme is emerging as the over-arching campaign theme that is gaining the most traction among the voting public, not just in the Massachusetts senate race, but throughout the country, perhaps for the entire 2010 election cycle. Interestingly, Nate Silver, one of the Democratic party's hottest quantitative gurus, came to similar conclusions, just a few months ago. rss@dailykos.com (bobswern) 2010 Barack Obama BarackObama Campaign Depression Economy FinancialReform FinancialServicesReform healthcarelegislation MA-Sen MarthaCoakley Massachusetts politicalcommunications politicalmediaDemocraticParty PoliticalRhetoric Populism Recession RegulatoryReform Republican Party RepublicanParty Scott Brown ScottBrown Senate Talking Points TalkingPoints Tea Party Teabaggers TeaParty teapartymovement _826310 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:16:23 +0000 Ripping Apart The Rationalizations For Passing The Current Health Care Bill https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/31/820741/-Ripping-Apart-The-Rationalizations-For-Passing-The-Current-Health-Care-Bill Yesterday I read an unsigned editorial in the NY Times which listed the reasons why we should pass health care reform legislation. To me, it summed up perfectly everything that is wrong with our country and our system of government.  The gist is that our healthcare system is broken, people are suffering needlessly because of it, the current bill won't really fix it, but we should support it anyway because at least it's something.  Below, I refute every argument that is made in support of passing the current healthcare legislation, which will actually make things worse for most people, not better. rss@dailykos.com (ksliberal1) Congress Fraud healthcare legislation Healthcare Reform healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform NewYorkTimes NY Times Uninsured Working Poor WorkingPoor _820741 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:00:03 +0000 Senator Nelson is not the 60th vote- a Republican is https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/22/817877/-Senator-Nelson-is-not-the-60th-vote-a-Republican-is Whether you agree or disagree with the current health care legislation now making its way through the senate, there is no denying that it will be impactful and could not have been achieved without overcoming the hurdles of enlisting critical senators for its passage. rss@dailykos.com (jcan) Arlen Specter ArlenSpecter Democrats healthcarelegislation Republicans _817877 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:24:06 +0000 Stop Whining! Everyone Has Healthcare. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/7/801886/-Stop-Whining-Everyone-Has-Healthcare <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/7/801813/-Steve-King:-All-Americans-have-health-care">Republican congressmen Steve King</a> is just the latest in a long line of stupid republicans to argue that "everyone has healthcare" because everyone can get treated at an emergency room. <a href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001135.htm">Who can forget George Bush's prescription</a> for our healthcare woes: "Just go to an emergency room." I recently heard one republican--whose name I cannot recall--say that if you got into a bicycle accident, nobody would just leave you on the street to die. First, one must ask the question--why can the uninsured and the poor go to the emergency room for emergency medical care? Because the federal and state governments reimburse hospitals using taxpayer money to make up for a substantial portion of those losses. In other words, emergency room care for the poor and underinsured is GOVERNMENT FUNDED HEALTHCARE--a "public option" (though highly undesirable), if you will. So really, what are we all worried about? Everyone without healthcare can just seek treatment at the emergency room. rss@dailykos.com (CatM) chronicconditions EmergencyRoom HealthCare healthcarelegislation Public Option PublicOption singlepayerinsurance Steve King SteveKing _801886 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:48:08 +0000 Punctuated Equilibrium https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/21/795810/-Punctuated-Equilibrium In project management, one of the key tools is called a Force Field Analysis. Essentially, it is a list of all the reasons for the project to move forward on one side and a list of all the reasons for the project to not progress on the other side. Comparing and ranking the forces can help to understand why a project is stalled. Brute force management techniquee involve taking the major forces for completing the project and magnifying them. It's like politics. To get your piece of legislation through, you start a campaign to overwhelm the opposition. If successful, the shock and awe of the campaign just mutes the opposition. In my experience, however, I've used a different tack. In a stalled project, I look for ways to co-opt the opposition forces that seem most vulnerable. No need to go into details in this instance. There are a lot of ways of doing so (food for another diary entry). However, the results are astonishing. There are already forces in place to move the project forward. Otherwise it would not be stalled. So diminishing the resistance suddenly moves the whole thing forward. It's done before anyone catches on to the effect. A new equilibrium is established. rss@dailykos.com (Hank Heath) ChaosTheory healthcarelegislation projectmanagement punctuatedequilibrium _795810 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:20:22 +0000 Hypocritical vs. Hippocratic in Health Care Debate https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/4/776685/-Hypocritical-vs-Hippocratic-in-Health-Care-Debate The 75 percent or more of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html">Americans who support health reform with a public option</a> have more to worry about than the Health Insurance and Drug companies, the lobbyists, politicians and "advocacy organizations" fronting for them, and the frightened, misinformed citizens manipulated into being anti-reform protesters. Turns out that doctors may be having more of an impact on this whole national debate than we realize. Here in Florida, as is true around the country, many physicians who oppose President Obama’s vision of health reform with a public option are taking their case directly to their own patients -- often right in the middle of examinations and consultations. You know how it goes, probably something like, "Okay, Mary, it’s just a mild Flu, so take two aspirin, drink plenty of liquids, and tell Congress to say No to Obamacare". rss@dailykos.com (dantilson) dantilson Democrats FloridaPolitics HealthCare healthcare legislation healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform NewPoliticalVideo Obama health plan Obamahealthplan Public Option PublicOption Single Payer SinglePayer TedKennedy Tilson FIlms TilsonFIlms _776685 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:17:28 +0000 Healthcare Reform: Smaller Steps = Better Results https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/24/771656/-Healthcare-Reform-Smaller-Steps-Better-Results From <a href="http://www.politicalblend.com">www.PoliticalBlend.com</a> The healthcare reform debate continues to rage on, and our fearless leaders on Capitol Hill continue to demonstrate their inability to compromise and develop successful legislation to address the inefficiencies of our healthcare industry. rss@dailykos.com (Studout) CapitolHill HealthCare healthcare legislation Healthcare Reform healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform MassReforms Reform _771656 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:57:38 +0000 MI-11: How Not to Write, by Thaddeus McCotter (Summer Semester Edition) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/17/768436/-MI-11-How-Not-to-Write-by-Thaddeus-McCotter-Summer-Semester-Edition Cross-posted at BloggingForMichigan.com You've got to hand it to Thaddeus McCotter. Not only is he a member of the House GOP leadership--head of the Policy Committee, to be exact--but he's firmly established himself as the Walter Mitty of that body. Last year at this time, you might remember the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/21/604856/-Lowlights-of-the-House-GOP-Speak-In-on-Energy">"speak-in"</a> he organized in the House chamber. That was a make-believe House session--albeit with real, but very right-wing members--he called after the real House adjourned for the summer. McCotter was upset that the House hadn't passed an energy bill: the GOP energy bill, also known as the Drill, Baby, Drill Act of 2008. Not satisfied with starting a repertory company, McCotter recently tried his hand at writing rock songs. rss@dailykos.com (Dump Terry McAuliffe) healthcarelegislation MI-11 RepublicanPolicyCommitte ThaddeusMcCotter _768436 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:46:22 +0000 SOYLENT GREEN IS WHITE PEOPLE!!! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/13/766023/-SOYLENT-GREEN-IS-WHITE-PEOPLE . PICTURES PROVE: OBAMACARE LEGALISES CANNIBALISM WHITE WOMEN WILL BE EATEN FIRST Recycling Takes A Nasty Turn It turns out the Birthers & Deathers were both right: Barack Obama is in fact an African, from a cannibalistic tribe near Mount Kilimanjaro, and Obamacare does include "death panels." But the meat will not be wasted. Citing new levels of hunger in America, and an overpopulation of Caucasoids in the Red States, liberal Democrats in Congress have included a secret provision in their pending healthcare legislation that could cut the population of all Republican-majority States by up to half over the next twenty years. The resulting human remains will be processed in the same manner as cows, sheep and pigs who have fallen ill, and mixed with soybeans and lentils to make a tasty treat known as Soylent Green™, prepared as veggiemeaty™-loaf and veggiemeaty™-burgers. (continues) . rss@dailykos.com (cosa nostradamus) BarackObama Cannibalism conservatards corporatestooges DeathPanels Euthanasia healthcare legislation healthcarelegislation insanerumours President Barack Hussein Obama Republicanlunacy right-wingidiots _766023 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:14:19 +0000 Health Care Reform: We Should be Thanking Barack Obama https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/8/763695/-Health-Care-Reform-We-Should-be-Thanking-Barack-Obama <a href="http://www.evans-politics.com/">Evans Politics</a>, for liberal politics news you can trust and good entertainment. by Paul Evans This morning Evans Politics led with the news from AlterNet on Obama's giveaway to Big Pharma, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/141856/obama%27s_%2480_billion_deal_with_pharma_is_a_very_bad_deal_for_us/">Obama's $80 Billion Deal with Pharma Is a Very Bad Deal for Us</a>. However, in thinking about President Obama, the structured deals being worked out behind closed doors in committee meetings, and what is <ins>really</ins> going on with Obama and health care reform, I came to the conclusion that Obama is totally in the progresssive's corner, and that, far from rebelling against an Obama giveaway and sell out, we should be thanking Barack Obama. In my commentary, "Commentary on Obama and Health Care Reform: We Should be Thanking Barack Obama," I explain why: rss@dailykos.com (seawolf1957) Blue Dogs BlueDogs CorporateAmerica Corporation Democratic Party DemocraticParty Democrats GOP Health Care Health Insurance HealthCare healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform HealthInsurance HealthInsuranceIndustry Obama ObamaPresidency Pharmaceuticalindustry Progressive Public Option PublicOption Senate _763695 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:20:44 +0000 Health Care March (w/ video) Wilmington, NC https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/2/760942/-Health-Care-March-w-video-Wilmington-NC Some pundits wonder why Americans (read their viewing audience) have not been treated to demonstrations and marches in the streets for meaningful health care reform. Setting aside the fact that mainstream media would like nothing more than an August advertising war between private health insurance and big pharma interests vs. everybody else, local citizen activists are organizing in their communities and taking to the streets. Your diarist attended one such event in Wilmington, North Carolina yesterday and is dutifully filing this report: rss@dailykos.com (TriangleNC) Hagan healtcaremarch Health Care HealthCare healthcarelegislation Healthcarerally McIntyre NCNorthCarolina Wilmington _760942 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:29:51 +0000 CBO reports health bill increases deficit https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/17/754554/-CBO-reports-health-bill-increases-deficit Devastating news.  Douglas Elmendorf, director at CBO, told congress yesterday that the health care legislation would significantly increase deficit rather than save money.   This is getting reported on MSNBC now, but I see nothing here discussing this.   rss@dailykos.com (dangoch) CBO healthcare legislation healthcarelegislation _754554 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:16:42 +0000 Senator Hagan: Time to ActBlue https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/1/748735/-Senator-Hagan-Time-to-ActBlue Last week, your humble diarist scribed <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/26/747082/-The-Hagan-DisconnectA-Personal-Story">"The Hagan Disconnect – A Personal Story"</a>, a chance meeting with Senator Hagan at the NC town hall meeting in DC focusing on health care reform legislation. Her appearance at the town hall began with a standing ovation upon her introduction and ended with catcalls of "Do the right thing" after floating the concept of a public option to be administered by 50 separate states. Talk about a lead balloon! rss@dailykos.com (TriangleNC) act blue Hagan Health Care HealthCare healthcarelegislation Help NC North Carolina NorthCarolina Public Option PublicOption SenatorHagan _748735 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:36 +0000 Howard Dean Says Don't Call Baucus https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/23/746036/-Howard-Dean-Says-Don-t-Call-Baucus That's right. I was at a meeting with Dr. Dean today, and he said that calling Senators from out of state is pretty worthless. Unless you live in Montana, that is. <a target="_blank" href="http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j32/casperr67/?action=view&current=HChunterdean1.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j32/casperr67/HChunterdean1.jpg" border /></a> rss@dailykos.com (casperr) Health Care HealthCare healthcare legislation Healthcare Reform healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform HowardDean Recommended _746036 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:10:00 +0000 Breaking: New Endorsement for Public Health Care Option https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/13/742137/-Breaking-New-Endorsement-for-Public-Health-Care-Option Health Care for America Now lists members of Congress that have endorsed a set of <a href="http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/statement_of_common_purpose">core principles</a> supporting a viable public option in crafting legislation for National Health Care Reform. To date, <a href="http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/congressional-support-for-health-care-for-america-now/">20 Senators and 174 Representatives</a> (along with two former Senators named Obama and Biden) are signatories. Daily Kos diarist <a href="http://mcjoan.dailykos.com/">mcjoan</a> has provided excellent reporting and commentary on the National Health Care Legislation issue and is highly recommended by this humble diarist. It’s time to change the number of Congressional Representatives signing onto the HCAN principles thanks to North Carolina's Rep. David Price of our 4th Congressional District. <a target="_blank" href="http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll1/TriangleNC/?action=view¤t=DavidPriceHCANnow.jpg"><img alt="Rep. David Price Townhall June 13, 2009 Durham, NC" src="http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll1/TriangleNC/th_DavidPriceHCANnow.jpg" border /></a> More below the fold. rss@dailykos.com (TriangleNC) HCAN HealthcareforAmericaNow healthcarelegislation nationalhealthcare Public Option PublicOption Publicoptionhealthcare SinglePayerHealthCare _742137 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:02:10 +0000 U.S. Public Health Association: "We've never seen it this bad" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/13/708059/-U-S-Public-Health-Association-We-ve-never-seen-it-this-bad The collapse of the U.S. healthcare system is very old news. We are at Code Red in the United States of America. But don't believe me, here's what the top doctor at the American Public Health Association had to say the other day. "We've never seen it this bad," said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. What's also very old news is that the political establishment in our country has seen fit to do virtually nothing to mitigate the profound human suffering inflicted on law-abiding, tax paying U.S. citizens. It's as if tens of millions of us simply don't exist. Please look at the video in this just posted diary of a young woman with ovarian cancer and no insurance. <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/13/133949/012/730/708129">It's deeply disturbing and heartbreaking.</a> rss@dailykos.com (nyceve) AHIP AmericanPublicHealthAssociation Congress healthcare legislation healthcare profiteers Healthcare Reform healthcarelegislation healthcareprofiteers HealthCareReform Public Option PublicOption Recommended U.SPublicHealthAssoc _708059 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:50:09 +0000 Obama's Plan for Filibuster-Proof Health Care Reform UPDATED https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/24/701480/-Obama-s-Plan-for-Filibuster-Proof-Health-Care-Reform-UPDATED Maybe I'm missing something here, but I think a major element of President Obama's health care reform strategy is emerging. I've wondered for a while how meaningful reform legislation could possibly get 60 votes in the Senate. After all, it's no secret how much Republicans fear universal health care enacted by a Democratic President. Back in 1993, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-frank/health-care-reform-could_b_148178.html">Bill Kristol sounded the alarm</a>: <blockquote> "The plan should not be amended; it should be erased," Mr. Kristol advised the GOP. And not merely because Mr. Clinton's scheme was (in Mr. Kristol's view) bad policy, but because "it will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests." Historian Rick Perlstein suggests that this memo is "the skeleton key to understanding modern American politics" because it opens up a fundamental conservative anxiety: "If the Democrats succeed in redistributing economic power, we're screwed." </blockquote> But guess what? We won't need 60 votes this time. The key is reconcilation. rss@dailykos.com (ryeland) Filibuster Health Care HealthCare healthcarelegislation HealthCareReform reconciliation Rescued _701480 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:42:55 +0000