Health Insurance Reform

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• Health Lobby Fights Against Progress with $$$

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 135
  If you arent aware that the health insurance reform bills arent being bought, heres an update on how the battle is moving from Congress payoffs to the state level - " Insurance companies, hospitals and other health care interests have been positioning themselves in statehouses around the country to influence the ...
  7 hours ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (99) No Conference Committee to Resolve Differences Between House and Senate Bills

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 478
       The differences between the House and Senate health care reform legislation will be reconciled not by a conference committee, but rather informally by the leadership of the House and Senate, in consultation with the White House and with Senators and Representatives whose votes are necessary for passage of the ...
  14 hours ago

• Some States Fight Medicaid Expansion – Costs a Worry to All

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 114
  One provision of health reform which has the states up in arms, for varying reasons, relates to the expansion of Medicaid coverage.  First, the expansion creates a mandate by the federal government levied upon the states, since Medicaid is basically a 50/50 matching program of state and federal dollars.  Second, ...
  16 hours ago

• Who Do You Trust About Health Insurance Reform?

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Amidst all the noise over health insurance reform , Vice President Joe Biden asks the important question, Who Do You Trust? Lori Heim, MD, (President, American Academy of Family Physicians) and Rebecca Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR (President, American Nurses Association) explain why doctors and nurses are calling for ...
  19 hours ago

• Following Lyndon Johnson’s Example

  
  Blake's Think Tank — Authority: 139
  Here’s an interesting idea (and before you continue reading note that’s highly implausible): President Barack Obama should sign the health care reform bill in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center . Huh? Right, I know. That doesn’t make any sense. Remember this : President ...
  1 day ago

• The health reform bills are just another bailout for financials.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout of the Financial Sector? Ellen Brown Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an ...
  2 days ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (97) Extent of Coverage and Subsidies in the House and Senate Bills

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 478
       If a principal goal of health care reform is universal coverage, both the House and Senate bills fall short of this ideal.  But each bill gets us most of the way there.      According to the CBO, the House bill would extend coverage to an additional 36 million Americans by the year 2019; the Senate ...
  2 days ago

• Democrat’s Health Care ‘Neutron Bomb’

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 527
  Dropping the Bomb on Health Care by Peter Schiff As business owners undergo the yearly ritual of passing through eye-popping health insurance premium increases to their employees, its easy to understand why any attempt at health insurance reform would be met with some degree of hope. Unfortunately, President Obama ...
  3 days ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (96) The Public Options in the House and Senate Bills

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 478
       It is well-known that the House bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act , contains a "Public Health Insurance Option" - a government-run health insurance company that would have competed with private insurers to provide coverage for American citizens.  It is also well-known that the Senate ...
  3 days ago

• The Health Care Mess: "Expanding" Medicaid

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Over at DU an attorney with some experience with Medicaid explains what it is really about, which really means this stupid health care "reform" bill expanding the number of people going on Medicaid merely expands the numbers of people who have their current and future estates seized: This post is not intended to ...
  3 days ago

• Health Insurance Reforms

  
  View How! — Authority: 140
  With all these new changes of the state and federal laws, it makes it easier for the self-employed indviduals with pre-existing conditions to attain or continue possessing their current medical healthcare coverage. This will now fall under a new law HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This ...
  4 days ago

• Senate Passes Health Care Bill

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 591
  You’ve probably already heard that the Senate passed the health care reform bill today, after months of political wrangling designed to remove any vestiges of actual usefulness: Senate approves landmark health-care bill . Democrats are increasingly confident that President Obama will sign a bill into law in early ...
  4 days ago

• Quotable...

  
  Upper Left — Authority: 436
  Harry Reid ... It is about people. It’s about life and death in America. It’s a question of morality, of right and wrong. It’s about human suffering. And given the chance to relieve this suffering, we must take it. Matt Yglesias ... It’s fine not to be satisfied with this legislation, but it’s ...
  4 days ago

• FMA Disappointed of Health Care Bill 2009 Passage

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 658
  James B. Dolan, MD, President of the Florida Medical Association (FMA), issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Senate’s passage of the federal health care bill 2009 .
  5 days ago

• And what he said: AFL-CIOs Richard Trumka, "the Senate bill remains inadequate. Substantial changes must be made"

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 140
  After passage of the Senate health care reform bill today, Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO echos Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) with in his statement of the need for more work in order to align its key measures with those retained in the House bill.  Full quote, as per FDLs David Dayen . is quoted in full: read more
  5 days ago

• Obama: Make Health Care Reform Arrive in 2010

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  President Barack Obama says Congress is now "incredibly close to making health insurance reform a reality in this country. He says lawmakers must now finish that job, and make 2010 the year health care reform arrives. (Dec. 24)
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• Flush with historic victory, Obama vows to finish the job

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 24 (IANS) As the US Senate passed a historic $871 billion health care overhaul bill Thursday bringing President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority “incredibly close to reality”, he vowed to finish the job soon.“With today’s vote, we are now incredibly close to making health ...
  5 days ago

• Lincoln comment on Senate health care bill

  
  Lynch at Large — Authority: 143
  Lincoln: Final Senate Health Reform Bill Good for Arkansas Washington – U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) today made the following statement upon final passage of the Senate’s revised health insurance reform bill: “It has taken months of dedicated work to get us where we are today – one large step ...
  5 days ago

• Wednesday Wake-Up Call

  
  Lynch at Large — Authority: 143
  Bill Vickery and I wrangle over health reform BUT look for my Santa tie!! Thanks to KARK TV Ch. 4 for posting the video. Follow the link below. Wednesday Wake-Up Call . Posted in Health Insurance Reform, Pat Lynch
  5 days ago

• Obama Double-Crossed Progressives on Health Care

  
  Moral Philosophy and Current Events — Authority: 122
  By Matthew Rothschild December 23, 2009 "The Progressive" -- - Are you feeling like a chump yet? If youre a good progressive, and you wanted single-payer health care for all, or, second best, Medicare for All Who Want It, or third best, a robust public option, or fourth best, a paltry public option, now youve got ...
  5 days ago

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