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Interactive timeline shows when various provisions of the Affordable Care Act take effect

Patient Centered Learning: The solution is to permit alternatives to rigid institutions, utilize free internet programs, and have medical students assist practicing physicians by assisting practicing physicians in taking patient histories. These students would offer valuable, free services to doctors. At the same time, they would have a vivid learning experience by spending several hours each day interacting with actual patients. The Cost Of Medical Education Would Be Negligible. The expense of healthcare is directly proportional to the cost of the doctor's education. With the institutional bottleneck gone, there would be a greater number of doctors, and the cost of healthcare would plummet.

While 45,000 die every year for lack of health insurance, "The GOP health insurance reform plan is this: Just don't get sick! And if you do--die quickly!" Or...first, go bankrupt. Then get on your knees and beg for charity. If this doesn't work, then resort to the final solution: "Die quickly!"

A non-institutional, patient-centered educational plan would produce an abundant supply of compassionate, innovative, prevention-oriented doctors at an extremely low cost. Additionally, the pace of medical research would be sharply accelerated.

Conservatively speaking, there are thousands of people with chronic illnesses who have educated themselves about their conditions via the internet. They quickly managed to become more familiar with their diseases than the physicians who treat them.

"I think this is the civil rights issue of our generation: access to appropriate healthcare is a human right." ~Mad as Hell Doctors

Read how this young woman has battled against Crohn's disease.

This is really unbelievable: The drug and medical-device industries are mobilizing to gut a provision in the stimulus bill that would spend $1.1 billion on research comparing medical treatments, portraying it as the first step to government rationing.

This version makes it easy to cite and share passages, knowing that your readers will readily find your citations // Text of H.R.3200 as Introduced in House: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

Wellpoint's Maine subsidiary sued the state of Maine when it refused to guarantee a 3% profit on the heads of 12,000 individual policy subscribers. They're spending close to $1 million on legal fees to fight the case, rather than use people's premiums to pay for medical coverage. || Quote from video: "I don't think ANYONE is worth $9 million a year; they spend $ millions on lobbyists--can they be sued for BRIBERY?