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• Senate Set for Final Vote on Health Reform Legislation

  
  Medicare Update — Authority: 132
  On December 23, 2009, the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 to advance the Senate health reform legislation (H.R.3590)past what appears to be the last procedural hurdle before the Senate votes on final passage. It has beenreported that the final vote will take place at 7:00 a.m. (EST) onDecember 24, 2009. Subscribe to ...
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• A Practical Solution For Rewarding Efficient Providers

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 523
  We offer a practical solution to the issues that Jack Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee raised in their November 17th blog, “ The Battle Over Rewarding Efficient Providers .”  We combine our experience in areas of law and patient care, respectively. American health care is in real peril of being swamped by surging ...
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• Health Care Reform Debacle

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 150
  12/23/2009 Hoppys Commentary For Wednesday Talkline Host Hoppy Kercheval Politicians love to reference history to bolster arguments. We are told that the health-reform bill is “landmark” legislation on par with Social Security and Medicare, thus glibly establishing the alleged historical significance. ...
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• Project 5 to 5: My Personalized Chain Letter To "Kill the Bill" -- FWIW!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  I AM SENDING THIS EMAIL TO AT LEAST FIVE FRIENDS AND ASKING THAT THEY CONTACT AT LEAST FIVE GOVERNMENT REPS TO KILL THE HEALTH CARE BILL: Subject line: PROJECT FIVE (friends) TO FIVE (Congress people): from libbyliberal asking for help to kill the “mockery of democracy” health care bill being rammed through ...
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• Senate Republicans Question Health Reform Bills Deficit Neutrality

  
  Medicare Update — Authority: 132
  Today, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a procedural matter before a final vote is taken on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on December 24, 2009. In a related event, Senator Jeff Sessions released a December 23, 2009 memorandum from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which ...
  8 hours ago

• Gregg: Health Care Reform Is A Scam On The American People

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 789
  Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) took to the Senate floor today and railed against the health care bill, calling it a "scam on the American people." Gregg said: "The simple fact is, that whats happening here is a scam, pure and simple scam on the American people, and especially on the seniors, on the seniors in this country." ...
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• Ad Slams Obama for Failing to Deliver on Health Care Goals

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  Hey, guess what? Politicians don’t always make good on their campaign pledges—and President Barack Obama is no exception, unfortunately. Although Obama challenged his critics Tuesday on the subject of his campaign pledges about health care compared to the current version of reform legislation taking shape in ...
  9 hours ago

• Money reads: Last-minute shoppers may win after all

  
  It's Only Money — Authority: 126
  Also, why Boomers need $250,00 in retirement just to pay for Medicare.
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• >>The United States Senate mode of operation: Extortion, Ransom, Bribery, Trickery, Secrecy, and Thievery… (This is a MUST READ. BB)

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 141
  (From American Daughter site.  A thank you for this article.  BB) Extortion, Ransom, Bribery, Trickery, Secrecy, and Thievery… By Harry Riley, COL USA Ret |  Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm …The United States Senate mode of operation. A few days before Christmas, American warriors are ...
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• Senator Cites New Budget Letter to Argue Health Care Bill Will Hike Deficit

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  Savings from Medicare touted by Democrats as a means to pay for the Senate health care bill was double-counted and the legislation will increase the deficit, not decrease it, a senior Republican senator said Wednesday, citing a new letter from the Congressional Budget Office.
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• 5 Reasons to Get Insurance Coverage for Home Health Care

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 454
  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 ...
  14 hours ago

• Scrooge and the Good in the Holidays

  
  The Tempered Optimist — Authority: 103
  The holidays are here. Yeah. But they are tempered by some scrooge visits already happening. So here are my nominations, my opinions, for Scrooge of the Year: The entire Republican Party: they know nothing about compromise and constituents and pay more attention to PAC funds from Managed Care Insurers then the ...
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• Brace Yourself For a Hard Landing

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 135
  Ben Bernanke has been a bigger disaster than Hurricane Katrina. But the senate is about to re-up him for another four-year term. What are they thinking? Bernanke helped Greenspan inflate the biggest speculative bubble of all time, and still maintains that he never saw it growing. Right. How can retail housing leap ...
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• Look! In the Senate! Its...A "Progressive Pony" Fallacy!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  I have a question for you, O Corrente Community. Have you, perchance, received an email like this recently? MadamaB, As you probably know, the White House and Democratic Senate leaders caved to Joe Lieberman and took both the public health insurance option and Medicare expansion out of the health care bill. That ...
  15 hours ago

• Matalin Calls Democrats Jihadists and Social Security and Medicare Entitlement Jihads.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 138
  The Republicans never fail to link their opponents to their countries enemies, but this is especially ridiculous. KING: Lets start, David Axelrod says were on the one-yard line deep in the red zone. Mary Matalin, you dont like this bill, but are Democrats going to get it? MATALIN: They are and theyre going to ...
  18 hours ago

• Pain Before Gain in Health Care Overhaul

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  Proposed taxes and fees on upper-income earners, insurers, even tanning parlors, to pay for Democrats health reform take effect quickly. So would Medicare cuts.
  18 hours ago

• Wed 17:50 - Doctors unhappy they are having to pay for a new medicare refund system ... (audio)

  
  Australian Broadcasting Corp. | abc.net.au — Authority: 811
  Steve Chase is speaking to AMA president Andrew Pesce
  20 hours ago

• Physicians for Single-Payer Healthcare Call for Defeat of Senate Health Bill

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 129
  Physicians for a National Health Program Press Release, December 22, 2009 Pro-single-payer physicians call for defeat of Senate health bill Legislation ‘would bring more harm than good,’ group says For Immediate Release Dec. 22, 2009 Contact: David Himmelstein, M.D. Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. Oliver ...
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• Physicians Want Medicare-For-All Program

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 488
  The 17,000 members of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) are not happy with the sadly inadequate mess of a health care bill poised to be passed by the United States Senate. They are urging the senators to defeat the bill and then work toward a bill that would offer a Medicare-For-All approach to ...
  20 hours ago

• Forever Gone

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Health Reform: Any law can be repealed, but the Democrats radical health bill contains unprecedented language that could wreck the U.S. health system permanently. Its one of the dirtiest tricks yet. Page 1,020" — it may soon be a mantra for one of the most disturbing abuses of legislative power in history. In setting ...
  22 hours ago

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