Reading the healthcare reform headlines and analysis this week, I’ve been having some disturbing flashbacks. It seems every bad idea, every damaging policy, every special-interest laden piece of refuse that I’ve written about in the last few months has been included in HR 3590. The Senate has effectively legislated increased protection for fat, powerful health insurers; lazy, uncompetitive pharmaceutical companies; and profiteering hospitals. Even physicians were granted a two-month reprieve on Medicare reimbursement so a permanent solution could be included in the final healthcare bill. What did we, the patients, get? Join in this trip down memory lane as we answer that question.

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What’s next in the healthcare reform drama? Believe it or not, there’s an actual process being followed. See the map and learn 5 things to watch here.                      blogsurfer.us

Courtesy of MAPLight.org, we now have a clear window into a show of solidarity for the public option in the Senate. And it’s fairly disturbing to see how easily our senators can be bought. Read it here.

America’s Healthcare Insurance Plans (AHIP) came out with a study deliberately designed to be damning to healthcare reform. Instead, it inadvertently promotes a public insurance option. Read it here.                        blogsurfer.us

It seems as if Olympia Snowe would rather throw consumers into the Wild West of unregulated insurance that annoy WellPoint any further. Read it here.