How Much Do You Want to Know? The Transparency Movement in Healthcare Pricing
Over the course of my nearly 60 year life, one thing about me has always been clear: I want more information. More. Better. Clearer.
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Category: Government Programs
The Pros and Cons of Single-Payer Health Insurance
A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows broad support for expanding public healthcare coverage, including Medicare-for-All. In that poll, 74% of Americans favor a national government plan that is open to anyone.
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Baseball, Cataracts and Government-Run Healthcare – Part 2
In the last installment of “Straight Talk,” I shared with you some amazing things that recently happened with my eyesight. I had cataract surgery and my ophthalmologist returned my eyes to 20/20 vision for the first time in 50 years!
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Baseball, Cataracts and Single-Payer Healthcare, Part 1
I can remember it like it was yesterday, but it was fully 50 years ago. There I was, a tubby 8-year-old, strong for my age and tall, but chunky, all decked out in my Little League baseball uniform looking for all the world like a young Babe Ruth. “Hamer’s Hammers” was emblazoned across my jersey in big blue letters; “13” broadly across my back.
Straight Talk Takes on Single-Payer
Who pays in a single-payer health insurance plan? This week, Straight Talk is kicking off a multi-part series on single-payer.
Ready to Shop for Short-Term Limited Duration Health Insurance Plans (STLD)? Best Put on Your Big-Boy Pants.
When I was a little boy growing up in Morgan City in the 1960s, I had a baseball coach who seemed like he was 100 years old! “Coach Charlie” had been coaching Little League in our town for 30 years, and I was lucky enough to be on one of his teams right before he hung it up.
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