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• More Red Flags from Senate Healthcare Reform

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Senate moved forward yesterday on debate of H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes. You read that right.   The bill being used as the shell for Senate ...
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• NRSC - Reform options: Yes, others exist

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 444
  http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Reform+options%3A+Yes%2C+others+exist&articleId=ed983f06-90b9-4a33-9b34-6e135ea9c780 Reform options: Yes, others exist Union Leader Editorial December 1, 2009 In a column in the New Hampshire Sunday News two days ago, Rep. Paul Hodes falsely claimed that ...
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• Top CMS Job Remains Empty – Does Anyone Really Want To Be the CMS Administrator?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 532
  This is a pressure cooker job for sure and one with a lot of responsibility for decisions, decisions that are hard and difficult to make as technology keeps changing the rules every day.  We have seen quite a few retire recently and I think this might just be the case.   On the other hand what is a CMS ...
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• Teabagger vs. Teabagger: Chicago tea group distances itself from hecklers

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 507
  From Thinkprogress : word that a group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, which encouraged its members to attend a town hall earlier in the month, is belatedly trying to distance itself from what it calls a “splinter group” responsible for heckling a woman whose daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild  died ...
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• GOP Rejects Transparency in Senate HCR Debate

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Heres a harbinger of whats to come in the next several weeks of Senate debate : Senate Republicans objected on Monday to a proposal from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that all health care reform amendments must first be posted online before being considered in order.... A member of the erstwhile "Gang of ...
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• Okay, I’m just gonna have to go all Doctor on you now

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 502
  No, it doesn’t mean that I’m going to charge you for reading this. I’ve talked about healthcare reform over and over again (I don’t see how Joan does it every day without going insane). I’ve talked about healthcare from an emotional standpoint and from an American legislative standpoint. I’ve talked ...
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• Dr. David Winn Founder of e-MDs EHR Responds to “Money Driven Medicine” With Suggested Solutions for Healthcare Reform

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 532
  Dr. Winn is the founder of e-MDs ambulatory electronic medical records systems located in Austin, Texas.  After seeing the post on my blog and watching the video, he offers his response.  By the way, this is the last evening you can watch the documentary for free and for a reasonable fee you can purchase the DVD ...
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• CBO Report: Most Covered Under Exchange Would Have Lower Premiums

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  A new report from the CBO , [pdf] issued at the request of Sen. Bayh, concludes that most Americans will pay lower premiums under the Senates healthcare reform proposal. There are conflicting spins coming out of this report: "CBO and JCT estimate that the average premium per person covered (including ...
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• Healthcare Fraud Costs Taxpayers Three Times as Much As Medical Malpractice

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 128
  The figure most commonly cited as the cost of all medical malpractice is about one half of  one percent of all healthcare expenditures.  Now, some people claim that figure is too low.  So let’s double it and assume that medical malpractice costs add up to 1 full percent of total healthcare spending.  ...
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• Democrats expect U.S.healthcare overhaul to pass

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Democrats on Sunday said they expect Congress to pass a major healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama, but supporters may have to accept legislation that falls short on some issues. The U.S. Senate on Monday is set to begin debate on the sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion ...
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• BlueCross BlueShields HCR Fight

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  BlueCross BlueShield has been extremely aggressive in fighting healthcare reform, and theyre taking the fight to their customers. In North Carolina, their tactics have resulted in an investigation by the state attorney general . In North Dakota and in in Illnois , BCBS and its licensees have been sending what ...
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• Rep. Thaddeus McCotter On Obamacare

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 480
  Rep. Thaddeus McCotter’s thoughts on health care and the republican’s approach to harnessing technology to provide more choice, and empower people to find the right health care for them.  I am absolutely convinced that McCotter’s IQ must be higher than the combined IQs of the democratic majority and the ...
  18 hours ago

• CBO: Healthcare Premiums Going Up (And More Redistribution Of Wealth)

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 480
  I am sure Harry Reid is having canaries about this report: Congressional Budget Office, An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, November 30, 2009.  I started to read it and when my brain started to hurt, and my eyes started to cross, I found this brief analysis ...
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• If you believe ObamaCare will be deficit neutral …

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 558
  ….  then you must believe all of the following (via The Health Care Blog ): Health reform adds a heap of new cost saving political obligations on Congress. A partial list: 1)that Congress not extend the five-year shelter for states from their share of the cost of a 15 million person Medicaid expansion (e.g. ...
  19 hours ago

• The Next Round Of Senate Healthcare Debate Starts Today, 11.30.09 (Live Streaming)

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 480
  Live streaming coverage of the healthcare debate in the Senate starts today at 3pm eastern on C-Span2. (Bookmark it)C-SPAN2 Live StreamC-SPAN2 offers gavel to gavel coverage of the U.S. Senate. C-SPAN2 also offers a balanced variety of public affairs programming when the Senate is in adjournment, including ...
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• It’s All the Same: Love The Docs, Hate The System

  
  Better Health — Authority: 555
  I’ve spent the last few days with much of our European team, today in Madrid, Spain. Here are a few quick observations, as the American reform process continues. 1.  Every country’s health care system has developed in the unique circumstances of its history.  That is, the health care system of each country is ...
  21 hours ago

• healthcare reform and the appeal to emotion

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 680
  “There are actual sick people with actual families feeling actual pain and facing actual tragedy because of this grotesque, wasteful, perverse, immoral, evil system that we labor under. Health care reform is a necessity because this is true and the fact of its truth tells us that change has to come.” ~ Freddie , ...
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• The Gorilla in the Living Room of Healthcare Reform

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 128
  [M] eaningful health care reform is unlikely unless we deal with theproblem of conflicted, unethical, and sometimes corrupt leadership ofhealth care organizations. - Healthcare Renewal, Former McKesson CEO and Board Chairman Convicted of Fraud
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• Katie Couric Rips Obama In What Newsmax Describes As ‘A Turning Point’

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 474
  Can someone give me an “Amen”? Or maybe you can figure out how to sing the following story to the tune of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” from The Wizard of Oz . Turning Point: Couric Rips Obama Sunday, November 29, 2009 By: Special From Newsmax’ Most Informed Sources Katie Couric may be best known ...
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• HCR Debate to Begin in Senate Today, 123 Uninsured People Could Die Today

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Its all business as usual starting tomorrow in D.C. The debate is expected to last at least several weeks. Democrats would like to pass a bill by Christmas, but have yet to find a formula that can win 60 votes, the number required to conclude debate. Complicating the situation, lawmakers from both parties ...
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