Sorry. I haven't updated on the latest in health care. I was a bit too distracted with another blog.
1. Birth Control will be considered preventive care under HCR.

I don’t know if you already knew about this. But, health care reform now considers birth control preventative care. That means the pill will be free-of-charge.
Very good news. If the right-wing pro life crowd would use its brain, they would realize that this policy will prevent a lot of abortions thus help them far more than making abortions illegal.

Now I hope health insurance will include dental care, too. That the industry split health from dental care is the biggest scam in history. When I moved here, I didn’t know that and I’m still a bit surprised about the fact.

Source: www.abcactionnews.com/

2. U.S. MDs spend $83,000 (yearly) on insurance administration costs.

"The survey research reveals that physician practices in the United States incur nearly $83,000 in administrative costs per physician each year, nearly four times the amount spent by their Canadian counterparts. The U.S. could save almost $27.6 billion in annual health spending if administrative costs were similar to those in Canada."
Does not surprise me at all. We need to go from private, for-profit health insurance to a healthier public, non-profit health care system.

Source: www.californiaonecare.org

3. Medicare turns 46 this year.

"Since its inception, Medicare has afforded hundreds of millions of Americans access to high-quality health care. It has reduced poverty among seniors and improved the financial security of their families. It has become one of the most popular government programs in history."
In fact, it is so popular, not even the Republican Party was able to reduce or repeal it and Tea Partiers continue to shout "keep government out of my Medicare" although it is a government program. The program has improved over the years, but there is still a LOT to do.

Source: www.pnhp.org/blog