Mountain Sage

WARNING: While adult language is bleeped out, it is still pretty obvious.

Viagra? Yes. Birth control? No
How shortsighted is it to not require birth control coverage in insurance plans while at the same time claiming to want to cut the number of abortions performed each year?  Are women really expected to give up sex or have a baby every year or so?
Why must women always [...]

I’m terribly afraid the bill has been so watered down that it really means very little.
The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmark health care reform.
There were still six minutes [...]

All of our representatives need to take an oath to not take any more money from the insurance industry. It is a conflict of interest.

A young man is killed in his dorm room and is taken to UC David Medical Center….he has health insurance. The trauma team worked on him for approximately 5 minutes and the young man dies. His parents receive a bill for almost $30,000.00 informing them they could no longer use the UC Davis [...]

Here are link summaries of the Affordable Health Care for America Act
Detailed Summary of Affordable Health Care for America Act
Affordable Health Care for America Act Section by Section Analysis

Word is the health care bill will be posted on line sometime this morning.  I will post a link as it is available.
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 29, 6:49 am ET
WASHINGTON – After months of contentious negotiating, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to unveil a retooled [...]

Just a week or so ago we read about an infant who was too fat being denied insurance.  Now, a toddler is considered too small by United HealthCare.  If you don’t fit a “norm” as defined by insurance companies you can expect a denial for health insurance.
Infants too fat, toddlers too small, victims of [...]

So much for preventative care.  So, domestic abuse is a preexisting condition and anti-AIDS medicine in the case of rape makes one uninsurable.  I’d like to see women vs. men stats when it comes to what makes one uninsurable.
Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a [...]