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Saturday, October 24, 2009
First lady' on Leno,
where he asked her whether POTUS would prefer world peace or White Sox in the World Series. A little laughter and a lot of poise. I love this First Lady, she has the strength and confidence the world admires. And she reminds me of Jackie Kennedy...
Friday, October 23, 2009
Medicare and Public Option show similarities
I support a public option, 2 reasons, the biggest one being that it will give the insurance companies a whack on the back of their necks. They have gotten too big for their britches, and they just keep increasing our premiums. Have you seen the latest in their blotched thinking....Again it goes back to children being denied benefits because of weight, using pre existing conditions. I would be afraid for my grandsons trying to get covered. They have Osteogenesis Imperfecta, otherwise known as brittle or glass bones, they were born with it. Would an insurance company look at that as a pre existing condition.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
UPDATE: Rocky Mountain Health Plans to Cover Heavy Babies
[My Commentary: This is just one example of the bureaucracy that happens every day that denies Health Insurance to thousands of Americans, and now i have heard that the insurance companies have stabbed the white house in the back. Are we going to stand and take this I hope not,I do not know what to do, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.....]
Discovery of Flaw in System Leads to Policy Change
(GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.) – Today, Rocky Mountain Health Plans has made a company wide policy change and will now provide health plan coverage for healthy infants, regardless of their weight.
“A recent situation in which we denied coverage to a heavy, yet healthy, infant brought to our attention a flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants,” says Steve Erken Brack, president and CEO, Rocky Mountain Health Plans. “Because we are a small company dedicated to the people of Colorado, we are pleased to be in a position to act quickly. We have changed our policy, corrected our underwriting guidelines and are working to notify the parents of the infant who we earlier denied.”
The trend in health care has been for more and more families with small children to seek individual coverage for their children from health insurers. Rocky Mountain Health Plans has also been seeing this trend. Underwriting for this age group is a relatively new process.
“We are part of the Colorado community too and that includes healthy babies. Rocky Mountain has been serving this community for more than 35 years and our collaborative, community approach to health care is well documented. We are constantly working on new, innovative ways to deliver quality, affordable health plans that are designed for the people of Colorado.
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Discovery of Flaw in System Leads to Policy Change
(GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.) – Today, Rocky Mountain Health Plans has made a company wide policy change and will now provide health plan coverage for healthy infants, regardless of their weight.
“A recent situation in which we denied coverage to a heavy, yet healthy, infant brought to our attention a flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants,” says Steve Erken Brack, president and CEO, Rocky Mountain Health Plans. “Because we are a small company dedicated to the people of Colorado, we are pleased to be in a position to act quickly. We have changed our policy, corrected our underwriting guidelines and are working to notify the parents of the infant who we earlier denied.”
The trend in health care has been for more and more families with small children to seek individual coverage for their children from health insurers. Rocky Mountain Health Plans has also been seeing this trend. Underwriting for this age group is a relatively new process.
“We are part of the Colorado community too and that includes healthy babies. Rocky Mountain has been serving this community for more than 35 years and our collaborative, community approach to health care is well documented. We are constantly working on new, innovative ways to deliver quality, affordable health plans that are designed for the people of Colorado.
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a "happy, adorable, big baby." denied health insurance for being overweight
Four-month-old Alex Lange is described as a "happy, adorable, big baby." Yet he can't get health insurance.
Rocky Mountain Health Plans refuses to cover little Alex because he's too large. Grand Junction's NBC11News.com reports.
Because of his size, Baby Alex was turned down for health insurance, his height and weight put him in the 99th percentile according to CDC guidelines.
Kelli [his mother] says it's ridiculous, "It's frustrating, it's very frustrating."
Dr. Speedie at Rocky Mountain Health Plans says all babies are evaluated for insurance the same way. "In children it's based on a combination of height and weight."
The health insurance reform legislation moving through Congress would end this practice of denying coverage based on "pre-existing conditions" -- in Alex's case, "obesity."
The Denver Post has more:
"I could understand if we could control what he's eating. But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. "There is just something absurd about denying an infant."
Bernie and Kelli Lange tried to get insurance for their growing family with Rocky Mountain Health Plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after Alex was born. They filled out the paperwork and awaited approval, figuring their family is young and healthy. But the broker who was helping them find new insurance called Thursday with news that shocked them.
"'Your baby is too fat,' she told me," Bernie said.
UDPATE: Bernie, Kelli, and baby Alex will all appear on MSNBC's Ed Show on Monday evening.
Rocky Mountain Health Plans refuses to cover little Alex because he's too large. Grand Junction's NBC11News.com reports.
Because of his size, Baby Alex was turned down for health insurance, his height and weight put him in the 99th percentile according to CDC guidelines.
Kelli [his mother] says it's ridiculous, "It's frustrating, it's very frustrating."
Dr. Speedie at Rocky Mountain Health Plans says all babies are evaluated for insurance the same way. "In children it's based on a combination of height and weight."
The health insurance reform legislation moving through Congress would end this practice of denying coverage based on "pre-existing conditions" -- in Alex's case, "obesity."
The Denver Post has more:
"I could understand if we could control what he's eating. But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. "There is just something absurd about denying an infant."
Bernie and Kelli Lange tried to get insurance for their growing family with Rocky Mountain Health Plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after Alex was born. They filled out the paperwork and awaited approval, figuring their family is young and healthy. But the broker who was helping them find new insurance called Thursday with news that shocked them.
"'Your baby is too fat,' she told me," Bernie said.
UDPATE: Bernie, Kelli, and baby Alex will all appear on MSNBC's Ed Show on Monday evening.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Congressman Alan Grayson a Florida Democrat......Three Cheers
This Congressman from Florida I love He has fire in his belly, and he stands up to the Republicans. Now he is the only Democrat who has had the guts to speak up. Is he going to be the one who sets the rest of the Democrats straight?
I can say with pride that I am proud to be a Florida Dem, is there anybody out there who feels the same.
I can say with pride that I am proud to be a Florida Dem, is there anybody out there who feels the same.
Let me know!Leave a message....
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Commentary on Health Care by Keith Olbermann
Last night Keith Olbermann did an hour commentary on the status of health care in the the United States of America. I am prayng that alot of people saw it and that they think about what he said. If you did not see it than watch it right here. Then take the time and think about what he has said. And then contact your so called congress person and let them know how you feel.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Poll: Do you support a strong public health care option?
I am tired of all the gas bags in washington who we elected telling everybody that we do not want a public option. I believe the insurance companies are living high on the hog and dismissing health care that people are paying for , putting all that money in their fat back pockets and telling those who pay for their insurnace coverage to go tohell. they tell our doctors what they can do and what services we get. the government can not do not worse and would give those greedy b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, a run for their money. they the insurance companies dictate who lives and who dies, and who can have insurance and who can't. I went without insurance for a long time, now I have medicare, thank God. My children all work and still can't afford insurance for their families, that is not fair. that is morally wrong. insurance is a right for everyone in the united states of America. I am discussed with all the politicians, and those egotistical people who sit int he background and tell the legislators what they can do and not do and then pay them to vote they way they want them to, the worst part is the politicians do it. they are not looking after their constitutes they are looking out fore themselves. we should make them do without their precious health care for six months so they know what we go through.
I am tired of all the gas bags in washington who we elected telling everybody that we do not want a public option. I believe the insurance companies are living high on the hog and dismissing health care that people are paying for , putting all that money in their fat back pockets and telling those who pay for their insurnace coverage to go tohell. they tell our doctors what they can do and what services we get. the government can not do not worse and would give those greedy b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, a run for their money. they the insurance companies dictate who lives and who dies, and who can have insurance and who can't. I went without insurance for a long time, now I have medicare, thank God. My children all work and still can't afford insurance for their families, that is not fair. that is morally wrong. insurance is a right for everyone in the united states of America. I am discussed with all the politicians, and those egotistical people who sit int he background and tell the legislators what they can do and not do and then pay them to vote they way they want them to, the worst part is the politicians do it. they are not looking after their constitutes they are looking out fore themselves. we should make them do without their precious health care for six months so they know what we go through.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Legislators for sale
Members of Congress are failing to represent their constituents in the health care fight
Olbermann: Legislators for sale
Aug.3: In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann slams members of Congress for acting more in the interests of their health industry campaign donors than their constituents who so clearly favor health care reform.
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Health Care Reform Opponents-Death Panels
Ex Governor Palin is a disappointment to me. Someone who has a child with downs syndrome who can look people in the eye and tell fantastic lies about what is in the health care reform bill, death squads, who expects people to vote for her if she runs for President, when she and the other GOP and Democratic impersonators are proved to be wrong, we the people of these United States will take back our country from those congressmen who believe that they are the holy grail, that they can do no wrong, and that their word is gospel. I am very disappointed with the deathers and the birthers. I am very irate with the way our Government is being hoodwinked by some congressmen who spout they are for change and when we the people want and vote for change they lie to us, cheat us, and their morality ashamed us.
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What I think of Members of our Congress
i know that there is alot of misinformation about the health care reform bill, I have heard the vicious statements and the hostile, unfair and demeaning statements by certain leaders of the GOP and certain Dems and I am very disappointed in our respected leaders who are by the way elected by us the commoners to see that what we want done in Washington on our behalf is done. But what I see is our dreams being blatantly tossed aside and they are doing what they want, what certain groups want done. Please listen to this web site, do your own checking, know that these groups are run by the GOP. It is our time, our generation, and our future generations, do not let a select few ruin our time for health care reform.....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/?e=10&ref=image
http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/?e=10&ref=image
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