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• Reality Check: Standing by Medicare vs. Standing by Insurance Companies

  
  White House.gov Blog — Authority: 732
  If youre an avid reader of this blog or youve been following the health insurance reform process closely, you probably know by now that reform will strengthen Medicare and keep the Medicare trust fund in the black for an additional five years. So you might find it curious that opponents of reform continue to repeat ...
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• Laid-off workers start losing COBRA subsidies

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 475
  Many of the millions of laid-off workers and dependents who were getting federal subsidies to help pay for health care coverage are now losing those subsidies and so might end up joining the ranks of the uninsured, according to a report issued today by two health-care advocacy groups supporting Democratic reform ...
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• WMU hopes to add med school partners

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 825
  DunnAs Western Michigan University plans for a new medical school, President John Dunn would like to bring a few more partners aboard.WMU has been working for two years on plans for a medical school with partners Borgess Health and Bronson...
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• Tom Daschle and Health Care Reform

  
  Weekly Standard Blog — Authority: 156
  Heres the AP on the first day of the Senates health care debate. The most interesting stuff comes toward the end of the story: Despite the public jousting, significant action was occurring behind the scenes Monday evening as Reid, D-Nev., and Baucus huddled to plot strategy with top White House and Cabinet ...
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• Through The 2008 Campaign Looking Glass--John McCain on Medicare Cuts, Now And Then

  
  Swampland — Authority: 732
  One can be forgiven for the double take. Back during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was the one accusing John McCain of wanting to cut Medicare benefits for seniors--a claim that independent fact checkers called "false." (McCain had proposed vaguely defined cost savings in Medicare, not benefit cuts.) Now everything ...
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• Friends, Family, Money and Health Care Failure

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 487
  Greenwald has linked to an interesting piece on Senator Evan Bayh. Indiana is my home state and most of my family still live there. I follow its politics with only passing interest now, but this piece, once again, illustrates why I have been pessimistic about health care reform succeeding. When he was governor, ...
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• How You Can Use Long Term Care Insurance

  
  KDL40v2500.Com — Authority: 135
  by Terry Stanfield Most of us never want to imagine growing old, being sick or needing long term care. But for 70 percent of people, this is something that they have to face. And the sad thing is that many of them are not insured with long term care insurance. What is long term care insurance? It is an insurance ...
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• Is a Mandate Constitutional?

  
  novatownhall blog — Authority: 428
  Is a federal mandate to purchase health insurance Constitutional? Ruth Marcus says it is . Marcus’ argument rests on two powers given to Congress: the power to tax, and the power to regulate interstate commerce. Looking first at the Commerce Clause, which has been stretched beyond all recognition, she relies on ...
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• Zakim Bridge to go RED for World Aids Day!

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 485
  Today is going to be an exciting day! Many of the worlds biggest monuments will "Go Red" in honor of World AIDS Day!According to the Boston Globe , "The Zakim , the widest cable-stayed bridge in the world, will have the bulbs changed in its inner lights from blue to red. The bridge will be bathed in crimson-colored ...
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• White House Web Site Asks ‘Who Do You Trust?’ When It Comes to Government-Run Health Care

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Few would disagree with the assertion that four words now appearing on the White House web site constitute “the fundamental question on health insurance reform.” Those words are “WHO DO YOU TRUST?”In order to answer that question, I compared the White House “spin” to what I heard directly from medical ...
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• Senate Bill Allows Health Care for Illegal Aliens: Joe Wilson Vindicated

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 617
  As the U.S. Senate and U.S. House craft health care bills to, supposedly, put an end to Medicare fraud, it leaves a gaping hole for some 1 million illegal aliens to receive coverage through their employer. Remember Rep. Joe Wilsons very public, televised accusation of Obama: "you lie?" uh huh. Of course, we always ...
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• HIV/AIDS Is Not Just An African Epidemic-Global View (video)

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 146
  African American women and men: In the United States, AIDS is the leading cause of death among black women aged between 25 and 34. Along with young gay men of color, heterosexual African American women take a hard hit in cases of people infected with HIV. No longer can HIV/AIDS be considered strictly a gay mans ...
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• Republicans Love Medicare, Except When They Dont

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Remember those days of yore, when John McCain was a man who put principle over partisan politics, somebody who could be counted upon to speak the truth? John McCain doesnt. Yesterday, McCain began the Republican assault on health care reform by proposing to strip the Senate bill of its proposed $487 billion in ...
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• HOW MUCH WILL YOUR STATES’ TAXES GO UP IN OBAMACARE?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Obama health care initiative will be the biggest unfunded federal mandate on the states in history. It will force dozens of states, particularly in the South, to abandon their low tax ways and to move toward dramatically higher rates of taxation. It may even force Florida and Texas to impose an income tax! In the ...
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• Do Supplements Help People Garner Lifelong Health?

  
  Common Allergies And Symptoms — Authority: 132
  Staying healthy is a big topic in the world today. You can tell by all the health-related magazines, TV and radio programs and Web sites everywhere you turn. I think all that health information has become more commonplace because people are trying to stay healthy in our fast-food society and they need good information ...
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• Insuring kids

  
  The Daily Briefing — Authority: 566
  There are 111,255 uninsured children in Ohio and most of them qualify for tax-funded health care but arent enrolled. While Gov. Ted Stricklands plan to expand eligibility in the State Childrens Health Insurance Program to higher-income children is on hold because of a lack of funding, child advocates are ...
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• 2,000 new posts in health sector in Kashmir

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Jammu, Dec 1 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government Tuesday announced the creation of 2,000 new posts in the health sector.Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma said the new posts would help extend the health care in Jammu and Kashmir to its rural and far flung areas. These posts would be both in medical and para-medical ...
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• Health Care Bill Hits the Senate–Let the Debates Begin!

  
  Promote Health & Wellness — Authority: 113
  The health care bill that is designed to completely overhaul the American health care system has caused plenty of heated debates in the Senate after it was recently passed by the House of Representatives. Debates are expected to continue for up to three weeks as lawmakers look to find a nonpartisan resolution on ...
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• Casey Pushes for Full Funding of CHIP

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  In October, it was Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) who rescued the Children’s Health Insurance Program from oblivion in the Senate Finance Committee. This week, it’s Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) pushing to provide full funding (and then some) for the popular program as the Democrats’ health reform bill moves on ...
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• New Health Care Numbers from Rasmussen

  
  Weekly Standard Blog — Authority: 156
  New poll numbers from Rasmussen show that 60 percent of respondents say health care reform will increase the deficit, and 75 percent say that its likely middle-class taxes will increase in order to pay for the Democrats new entitlement. No wonder close to 50 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Obama is ...
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