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Opinion: Republicans, Abortion and Lying
On Wednesday, Tagg Romney dazzled America with his stupidity, telling a North Carolina radio host that he wanted to punch the president. Thursday Ann Romney took to The View and Congressman Joe Walsh...
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Opinion: Why Don’t Republicans Understand Rape?
Once again, a Republican politician has said something extreme about rape. Extreme and extremely stupid. Last night it is was Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. He told an audience...
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Opinion: Obamacare Is Bad For Small Business
As the final days of the presidential campaign of 2012 wind down, there is ongoing concern about what President Barack Obama’s law for requiring businesses to provide health care for its employees...
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Opinion: Single-Issue Voting Is Wrong In These Multi-Issue Times
During this election cycle in 2012, like no other time one can remember, Americans tend to be talking about voting due to one single issue or another. Whether it be the Sandra Fluke issue of free...
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Opinion: Obamacare Should Win It For Mitt Romney
As we enter the last four days of the oft-times endless-appearing presidential campaign of 2012, there is one thing that has not changed throughout the entire process. That is the data-driven...
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Opinion: President Obama Says Vote For Revenge
Though President Barack Obama has said that he was not influenced by the sermons, preached messages and teachings he received from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the South Side of Chicago in the...
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Opinion: This Is What A Mandate Looks Like
After two years and more than two billion dollars spent, President Obama was returned to Washington with a clear mandate on the economy and the direction of the country. When it came to our economic...
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Opinion: Four More Years Of Gridlock
The 2012 presidential election results gave the United States Congress little reason to end the gridlock that has plagued President Barack Obama for the past two years. After all, the politicians who...
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Opinion: Happy Thanksgiving
The Buck Starts Here wishes a happy Thanksgiving to our readers. For progressives there is much to be thankful for this year. The election could not have turned out much better for those who support...
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Opinion: Americans Failed Walmart Workers
After all the hype regarding Walmart employees’ discontent with their employer, the long holiday weekend apparently went on without any major concerns for the money-making conglomerate. Walmart made...
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Lawmaker Pushing For More Oversight Of Health Care For Prison Inmates
CHICAGO (CBS) – An Illinois House committee has held a hearing aimed on a proposal to providing more oversight for the private company that maintains health care in the Illinois prison system. WBBM...
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Unions, Retirees Slam Mayor’s Plan To Cut Health Care Subsidy
CHICAGO (STMW) – Union leaders and retirees blasted Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday for saving $108.7 million by phasing out a city subsidy for retiree health care and using roughly the same amount of...
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State Discontinues Healthcare Funding For Disabled Stroke Victim
(CBS) — Unconscionable. That’s what a doctor calls a state decision to cut care funding for a patient. The family believes it puts their son at risk. As CBS 2’s Brad Edwards shows in this original...
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Sacred Heart Hospital Effectively Shuts Down
CHICAGO (CBS) — Sacred Heart Hospital on the West Side has effectively closed down. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – an arm of the federal government which monitors hospitals – confirms...
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Retired City Workers Sue To Keep Health Care Subsidy
CHICAGO (STMW) – Chicago’s 30,000 retired city employees are trying to stop Mayor Rahm Emanuel from saving $108.7 million — by phasing out the city’s 55 percent subsidy for retiree health care and...
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The New Patient’s Bill Of Rights
There have been several attempts by Congress over the years to pass a formal Patient’s Bill of Rights. The intention has generally been to protect many basic rights of Americans when it comes to...
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Health Care Costs In America Versus The Rest Of The World
While America has the most expensive health care system in the world, Americans do not live longer or have better health than people in most other developed countries. The Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
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Who In Illinois Is Eligible Under Affordable Care Act?
CHICAGO (CBS) — Next month begins a new chapter in health care that many Americans are still trying to figure out. On Oct. 1, open enrollment begins for what some call Obamacare. It’s really called the...
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Computer Glitches Hinder First Day Of Affordable Care Act
CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s official: The Affordable Care Act takes effect today, meaning you can begin shopping for health insurance. Governor Pat Quinn gave a thumbs up as he walked into a kickoff event....
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Food Stamp Outreach Boosting Illinois Medicaid Expansion
CHICAGO (AP) — Although only a few hundred middle-class Illinois residents were able to sign up for health insurance last month on the crippled federal HealthCare.gov website, the poor appear to be...
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Romneycare Vs. Obamacare: Key Similarities & Differences
The less-than-smooth launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, coupled with the recent revelations that many who purchase health insurance on the individual market are receiving cancellation...
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Obamacare Key Dates In 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law March 2010. Over the ensuing three years, various provisions of the law have gone into effect. The newly created health insurance marketplaces opened...
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Your Chicago: Mile Square Health Center
(CBS) – For 40 years, Mile Square Health Center has prided itself on giving excellent care, whether patients have medical insurance or not. There are 12 locations around the city. The main site is a...
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U Of I To Get $19.5M For Health Care Innovation Project
CHICAGO (AP) – The University of Illinois has been named a likely recipient of a $19.5 million federal grant for a project focused on the health of 6,000 Chicago-area children. The grant is among $360...
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Lake County, Ind. Inmates Getting Registered For Medicaid
(CBS) — Inmates at the Lake County Jail in Indiana are getting registered for health care, something they couldn’t do in the past. The jail is signing up inmates for Medicaid. Due to federal law they...
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City Transforms Clinic At South Side School Into Community Healthcare Center
WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (CBS) — The Emanuel Administration is heralding the establishment of what officials are calling a school-based health center on the Near...
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Ryan, Trump Pull Health Care Bill, Canceling Vote
(CBS) — At President Trump’s request, House Speaker Paul Ryan has pulled the GOP’s health care overhaul bill from consideration. The decision was a humiliating setback for the president and...
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What Does Open Enrollment Mean For Your Employees?
For small businesses, your employees can only change their health coverage during the open enrollment period. Open enrollment occurs once per year, unless of course there is a qualifying life event....
View ArticleShort Term Insurance Leaves Man In Financial Crisis, Advocacy Groups Work To...
CHICAGO (CBS) – Critics of short term insurance plans say they can be a long term disaster, saying they’re often misleading, leaving people without the coverage they thought they had. 29-year-old Sam...
View ArticleHealth Care, Tech Jobs Top List Of Highest-Paying Work In U.S.
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (CBS Local) – Americans eager for a high-paying job might want to focus on two industries: health care and technology. That’s because 18 out of the 25 highest-paying jobs are within...
View ArticleCustomers Complain Of Poor Service As Hotel Workers Continue Strike
CHICAGO (CBS) — Hotel customers are complaining of dirty beds, limited services, long check-in lines, and an overall shortage of staff since hotel workers at 25 hotels in downtown Chicago went on...
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Restaurants Adding Surcharge To Cover Employee Health Care Costs
CHICAGO (CBS) — When you dine out, and the check comes, it usually includes the cost of your food and taxes, but more restaurants are adding a new surcharge to your bill to cover the costs of employee...
View ArticleIllinois Officials Agree To Settle Prison Health Lawsuit
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A court-appointed expert would guide the overhaul of health care for Illinois prison inmates in a proposed federal consent decree filed Thursday. Lawyers for approximately...
View ArticleNo-Cost Birth Control Faces Court Challenges
(AP) — Millions of American women are receiving birth control at no cost to them through workplace health plans, the result of the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, which expanded access to contraception....
View ArticleFurloughed, Laid Off Workers Now Face Difficult Financial Choices
CHICAGO (CBS)– For millions of people who’ve been laid off, furloughed, or had their hours reduced, there’s some really hard financial choices to make right now. What bills to pay? Which to ask for...
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Time For A Career Change? Health Care Experiencing Strong Job Growth In Chicago
Photo: Unsplash Chicago’s health care industry is experiencing strong job growth. Local employers posted 314 new jobs over the past week and 1,166 in the last month, ranking third among local...
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Working For Chicago: Advice From An Expert At Glassdoor About What Sectors...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Every week, Glassdoor publishes a job market report for the Chicago area with the latest industry breakouts. CBS 2’s Tim McNicholas took a look at the data to help job seekers...
View Article‘Definitely A Blessing’: Indiana Families Can Soon Get Necessary Medical...
CHICAGO (CBS) — For months, the CBS 2 Investigators have been exposing a problem for some of the sickest kids in northwest Indiana. Insurance rules mean most of their families have to drive hours to...
View ArticleGov. JB Pritzker Signs Expansive Health Care Access, Equity Legislation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday to make health care more accessible and equitable, particularly for people of color. The wide-ranging law includes...
View ArticleState Officials Refuse To Say How New $200 Million YouthCare Health Care...
CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s a new $200 million taxpayer-funded medical program for children in the state’s care, but if you want to know how it’s working out, you can’t. The state isn’t releasing that...
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