Healthcare

In Excellent Health – Dr. Scott Atlas from Stanford University’s Hoover Institute

By Steve McGough | October 23, 2013 |

Jim just interviewed Dr. Scott Atlas from the Hoover Institute about health care and health care outcomes in the United States compared to other countries. They also specifically discussed health care quality and outcomes in the United Kingdom.

Obamacare – It’s all about spin and marketing

By Steve McGough | October 23, 2013 |

Remember what I wrote about the other day? Even though the Democrats passed and started implementing Obamacare years ago, they have been in a constant battle to sell this law to the people. It continues.

Reminder: Obama lied about being able to keep health insurance coverage you like

By Steve McGough | October 23, 2013 |

If you like your policy, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep him or her. Those were lies. We told you over-and-over this was the case.

How much did health insurance cost before Obamacare?

By Steve McGough | October 20, 2013 |

I’ve been stuck on this fact. Individuals and families who did not have health insurance coverage prior to Obamacare had every opportunity to research available plans online, compare coverage and purchase coverage. No government websites were ever needed. But now that they have the new pretty government sites, what is the cost difference between pre-Obamacare…

No QA testing for Obamacare website – roll it out no matter what

By Steve McGough | October 20, 2013 |

In the Fortune 50 world, we called it quality assurance (QA) testing. Either HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius completely ignored all standards for QA testing when it comes to a roll out of a new online application, or she knew it was screwed up and let it launch anyway.

UnitedHealthcare cancels agreements with doctors servicing Medicare Advantage patients

By Steve McGough | October 9, 2013 |

As of February, more than 2,000 physicians will be dropped from UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage program in Connecticut. Although you’ll see this referred to as a profit-related move in the media, this is not about United being greedy.

Privacy policy from Maryland Health Connection website – Sharing info with law enforcement?

By Steve McGough | October 8, 2013 |

Drudge Report is highlighting this right now, and it’s another one of those poorly worded privacy statements on a website. Supposedly, Maryland feels as though it’s perfectly fine to share your personal information with law enforcement.

First Obama Phones, now ObamaCare phones!

By Steve McGough | October 3, 2013 |

Will this, can this, ever end? Yeah, yeah, the phone program has been in place long before the Obama administration and I thought it was stupid then too. Now we have Obamacare representatives giving away phones included with their health insurance benefits.

And your opinion on Dred Scott v. Sandford is?

By Steve McGough | October 3, 2013 |

Or how about Korematsu v. United States? Or maybe Plessy v. Ferguson? I’m quite annoyed at the people who keep saying “the Supreme Court has decided” and the debate about the so-called “Affordable” Health Care Act is over. We’re supposed to just shut up an take it? What do those of you who have called Vicevich and…

President Obama’s justification for the problems with the Obamacare exchanges

By SoundOffSister | October 1, 2013 |

As you know, Obamacare’s exchanges opened today, and the results were not pretty.  So, the President took to the Rose Garden this afternoon to minimize the  existence of  the exchanges’ “glitches”.  Here is what the President said: