Health Care Costs

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• Senate bill could hurt insurers initially

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Health insurers get some big presents in the Senates health overhaul bill -- about 20 million new customers and no competition from a new government plan. Taking advantage of those boons might take some time, though. The bill imposes hefty new taxes and coverage rules that will pinch insurers by ...
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• MPR builds health-reform impact calculator

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  As part of her series on the effects of health care reform on small businesses , Minnesota Public Radio’s Elizabeth Stawicki worked with the station’s Web staff to create a calculator/quiz for employers wondering if reforms will apply to them. It’s a simple way to use the Web to personalize health care ...
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• My solution for the health care dilemma

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 440
  I havent crunched the numbers, but just knowing how the government pads everything and costs go up everywhere when their sticky fingers go into the pie, I think my plan would not only be better, please everyone but would also be cheaper. First, it would only be for U.S. citizens, native or naturalized. Second, it ...
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• WHY I SUPPORT THE HEALTH CARE BILL

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 127
  Those of you who follow this site, or who have heard me speak on air or at  public functions, know that I support the Public Option (actually, I support a single-payer system, but thats for another day). You also know that I think if our gourmet health care deal included the Public Option what weve ended up with is ...
  2 days ago

• What a Group to be In

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 614
  Per the Health at a Glance Chart Set, Powerpoint, available here : All OECD countries have achieved universal or near-universal health care coverage, except Turkey, Mexico and the United States And its even more impressive when you go to Slide 36 (whose header is quoted above) and realise that the Public Coverage ...
  2 days ago

• Good Trends in Health Care Costs?

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  Fellow blogger Janice has been carrying on the good fight to control costs at her hospital. A group of us at my hospital have been doing the same in a less formal way. I generally feel as though we are fighting a losing battle. For every dollar we save, the medical entrepreneurs seem to find some way to get paid ...
  2 days ago

• Health care reform for the young and healthy

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  As part of the ProPublica Eye on Health Care Reform blog’s ongoing “ What Health Care Reform Means For… ” series, reporters Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce considered how the Senate and House reform bills would effect young, healthy, independent Americans . Here are a few highlights from their piece: ...
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• The Singapore Alternative (health saving accounts instead of insurance)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  I pointed out on my show last week that health “reform” that gives people more health insurance will only raise health care costs. Insurance itself is the problem. When people dont spend their own money, they dont care what health care costs. One solution is health saving accounts, or HSAs, in which people spend ...
  2 days ago

• How Will the Senate Bill Impact the Insurance Companies and Their Customers?

  
  Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review — Authority: 461
  How will the Senate bill impact health insurance companies and their customers?Even better, how will it impact a not-for-profit health plan--one with a reputation for being a "good guy" that continually wins the countrys top awards for member services and with historic profits of less than 1% of premium? And, one that ...
  2 days ago

• Please explain to me how this is good for buisness?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  http://online.wsj.com/article “In their rush to pass massive health care reform before Christmas, Senate Democrats included a last-minute provision overtly targeting the construction industry, including home builders,” the National Association of Home Builders said in an email alert to its 200,000 members ...
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• 5 Reasons to Get Insurance Coverage for Home Health Care

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Insurance protection is essential now a days because in America hospitalization is much more costlier due to increasing new facilities the health care costs gets higher and higher. Here are five reasons to get the insurance for home health care : 1. Suppose some one gets major accident or ...
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• Would Reform Bills Control Costs? A Response To Atul Gawande

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 527
  Atul Gawande, MD, is one of the best medical writers of our time. I subscribed to the New Yorker just so I could read him.  I reached eagerly for my Dec. 14, 2009 New Yorker when I heard he had an article there . I was deeply disappointed. What worries me is that his article will be used to support a political ...
  3 days ago

• About that Democratc Victory in Health Care Reform…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Democrats are VERY happy they got the 60-40 Health Care Reform (HCR) vote, but instead of thinking that they have a political victory, the Dems should wait until... ... Until more voters notice that some Senators voted for the bill mainly because they secured special treatments for their State on the backs of ...
  4 days ago

• Government and Health Care Costs

  
  BizPlusBlog.com — Authority: 120
  The most common arguments for government control of health care is making it available to everyone and excluding no one. Studies indicate that US indigent care (those who cannot afford health care of their own) is better than health care for those who have socialized medicine in other countries. Meanwhile, the vast ...
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• SUPPORT THE SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL?

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 127
  Super Numbers Geek, and all around smart guy, Nate Silver has a nice chart that helps to "uncomplicate" the current health care debate. That is, if you like charts. In a few words, Silver believes that if the Holy Grail for Liberals and Progressives was to get a single-payer system (everyone is covered by one ...
  4 days ago

• MSNBCs Dylan Ratigan turns Morning Meeting into a Morning Melee

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 694
  Morning Meeting , a horrid hour long morning news and shout show featuring former CNBC talking head Dylan Ratigan, invited Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on a recent show and conducted the kind of interview that would cause the Bill OReilly from that infamous Inside Edition clip to calm down. Although it ...
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• The Senate health care bill is an improvement over what we now have

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 440
  Far from perfect , the Senate health care bill does move the ball forward.  Perhaps not as much as hoped, but forward nonetheless.  Via Jonathan Cohn comes some data from MIT economist Joseph Gruber measuring how families of varying means would fare with and without the reform offered by the Senate bill. ...
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• The Revised Senate Health Reform Bill: Cost Control And Other Aspects

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 527
  One of the most common complaints about the health reform legislation pending in Congress is that the bills do nothing to control the growth in health care costs or improve the quality of health care.  Those who raise this complaint either have not read the bills or are very attached to a particular proposal that was ...
  5 days ago

• Collin Peterson, Mary Landrieu & Ben Nelson

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  It isn’t a mistake to say that Collin Peterson, Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson are a band of idiots. Each of them voted for legislation that will raise taxes on their constituents. In exchange for their abandoning their principles, each got concessions . Peterson accepted his thirty pieces of silver after ...
  6 days ago

• CynThesis on Third Party Funding

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  Our good Wired Sister CynThesis’ anticipated essay on third party funding as an economic problem in its own right has just been published in our Featured Works section: One is a Hermit, Two is a Conspiracy, Three is a Party H. M. Stuart Alexandria Posted in Culture Tagged: cost inflation, health care costs, ...
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