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• If Cap and Trade Doesn’t Work, Obama will Make it Work

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  All the talk in Washington is surrounding a government health insurance plan, but there’s a little discussed insurance plan in the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill that’s worth some attention. The Senate version of the cap and trade bill includes a section that grants the President the authority to “direct relevant ...
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• If Cap and Trade Doesn’t Work, Obama will Make it Work

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  All the talk in Washington is surrounding a government health insurance plan, but there’s a little discussed insurance plan in the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill that’s worth some attention. The Senate version of the cap and trade bill includes a section that grants the President the authority to “direct relevant ...
  4 hours ago

• Reinforcing the Progressives

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Yesterday I used my Chutzpah of the Week award to call attention to the nine Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against health care reform in betrayal of their representation of a sizable portion of their electorate currently without any form of health insurance. Having done this, I should ...
  8 hours ago

• Pot(belly), Meet Kettle

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From From THINK PROGRESS : Ensuring that insurers don’t reject any American for health coverage because of a pre-existing condition is a top priority of the public . Republicans have repeatedly said that they also want to make this change, but in the alternative legislation they released, Americans with ...
  9 hours ago

• Kaiser’s support for state access to insurance

  
  eLetters — Authority: 139
  Re: “Insurers needle state on rate hike,” Nov. 5 news story. Not all health insurance companies are opposed to House Bill 1355 [which passed the Colorado legislature in 2007], which prohibits rate hikes for businesses that have sicker employees. Kaiser Permanente Colorado supported that bill and many previous ...
  9 hours ago

• The Rise of Single-Administrator Health Care?

  
  Mike The Actuary's Musings Actuarial Musings — Authority: 126
  David Frum made an observation on one of the potential bits of fallout from the House health insurance reform bill, assuming it survives into law: Small employers can now escape the obligation to provide health care for their employees by paying an 8% payroll tax. Many small employers will seize that offer. Their ...
  10 hours ago

• The House passes historic reform bill despite dissent

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 719
  Filed under: Health , Insurance-health If you ask a progressive on the presidents left flank, theyll probably tell you that the House health care reform bill that passed the House on Saturday is, in fact, a weak bill with a public option thats doomed to fail. I dont necessarily agree. The bill clamps down hard ...
  10 hours ago

• Freedom from Fear in the Health-Care Debate

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 638
  There comes a moment when we can say a word or speak a concept so often that it loses meaning and simply becomes sound.  The concept becomes exhausted, thin, one-dimensional.  Such was the case with the word and the concept…
  12 hours ago

• GLAD needs your help: tales of gender discrimination

  
  Gloria's Oversexed Mind — Authority: 484
  From this mornings mail. GLAD is collecting stories about people’s experiences with health insurance coverage related to gender transition, to help us determine how we can best address legal concerns in this area. If you have a story to share, please complete our brief survey at: ...
  12 hours ago

• Harkin Non-Committal on Preservation of CHIP

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Though it’s been little mentioned throughout the health reform debate, there’s a showdown brewing between House and Senate Democrats over the future of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, previously know as SCHIP. House lawmakers have proposed to do away with the program at the end of 2013, ...
  13 hours ago

• ‘Abortion-Insurance’ Issue Creates Strain to Avoid ‘Split the Baby’ Metaphor

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 565
  “SO CONGRESSMAN, YOU’RE ‘ SOLOMON ! NOW TELL ME HOW YOU’RE GONNA’ MANAGE TO, UH, CUT THE DIFFERENCES IN HALF,  I MEAN ‘SPLIT THE …,  YA’ KNOW WHAT I MEAN.”
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• Give Kay a call about health care reform

  
  theCLog — Authority: 489
  Now that the health care reform fight has moved to the U.S. Senate, North Carolina’s Sen. Kay Hagan is seen as a key figure in determining what kind of reform comes out of Congress. Hagan supports reform, but has made noises about being “flexible” on the public option part of a reform bill. Our view is that not ...
  13 hours ago

• Is Universal Health Care Fair?

  
  Profiles Blog - Profiling the Hottest Daily Topics — Authority:
  We have had a ton of people write in with questions and comments on the pending Universal Health Care Bill that is now in the Senate. I have not seen a more debated topic in politics in quite a long time. The pending Bill which Obama hopes to have signed into law by the end of 2009 will affect just about everyone in ...
  14 hours ago

• San Antonio Health Insurance: Fort Hood Update

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 423
  As of November 9th, the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre is conscious and talking according to the article “Alleged Ft. Hood shooter awake and talking at San Antonio hospital” by Jpost.com Staff.  The source was a spokesperson for Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. The spokesperson also ...
  14 hours ago

• ‘Opt-Out’ Proposal Puts State Leaders to the Test

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Candidates for governor will likely be pressed for answers if the provision becomes part of a new health plan.
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• Life After College: Financial Woes

  
  College Candy — Authority: 661
  Yeah, thats my life savings right there. Because I’m making six pennies a year in my job after taxes, I follow a very strict budget that allows me to afford a moderate amount of food and a moderate amount of fun. There is no room for a savings plan in my budget so I just figured if I was extra careful nothing ...
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• NY Times Profiles DP Benefit Tax Provision in House Health Reform Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  Check out the New York Times’ story, “Potentially One Less Tax Penalty for Gay Couples” profiling the provision we’ve told you about in the House version of health care reform that would end the unfair taxation of domestic partner health benefits (similar benefits offered to married spouses are not taxed):This ...
  15 hours ago

• Ingenix (United HealthCare Subsidiary) to Purchase CareMedic Services – Business Intelligence and Algorithms

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Business Intelligence and analytics continues to grow in healthcare with mergers and acquisitions.  Just last week I posted about the Medical Banking Project being acquired by HIMMS.  In looking at the CareMedic site, both are shown as affiliates.  Is the financial end of healthcare shifting to become the main ...
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• Jail Time for Health Insurance Scofflaws?

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 705
  Under the House health insurance reform bill , those who can afford to buy insurance and don’t will pay a fine. If the refuse to pay the fine theres a threat of jail time. Despite this, today, appearing on ABC News with Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama stopped short of endorsing that threat.
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• Two must-read petitions

  
  Thurber's Thoughts — Authority: 128
  I urge you to read these two petitions:The Candlemakers Petition - Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles, Waxlights, Lamps, Candlelights, Street Lamps, Snuffers, Extinguishers, and the Producers of Oil, Tallow, Resin, Alcohol, and, Generally, of Everything Connected with LightingThe Healthcare Producers Petition - ...
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