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• UPDATE: Details on “the plan” for Real Health Reform

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 118
  Here is a continuing update detailing, in greater depth, various points of “The Plan” designed to address the reasoning behind these ideas and the objections some have voiced. (1) All persons must have health insurance from the private sector or government sponsored plans. Many have objected to this as ...
  6 hours ago

• Obama Flubs Job Count: Why Trust His Health Care Numbers?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  By John W. Lillpop The Obama administration has shown a remarkable inability to apply simple math in order to keep track of the number of jobs created and saved as a result of the stimulus blowout. Without accusing anyone of anything (except fraud and deceit), it is an incredibly curious fact that the White House ...
  7 hours ago

• Obama Backs Senate on Two Disparities in Health Bills

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  A tax on high-cost insurance and a new commission to control Medicare spending — items only in the Senate’s bill — are seen as essential by Obama advisers.
  9 hours ago

• Download the Medicare and You 2010 Medicare Handbook

  
  ElderGuru.com — Authority: 400
  The federal Department of Health and Human Services has released the 2010 Medicare and You consumer handbook. This is the official government benefit description manual issued to Medicare members. The handbook contains information on the following: What’s new in 2010 Medicare costs Medicare coverage Health ...
  10 hours ago

• Single payer at the National Press Club and the days news

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  Statement of Russell Mokhiber President, Single Payer Action Good morning. My name is Russell Mokhiber. I’m the president of Single Payer Action. Single Payer Action is a non-profit 501c.4 organization. Our mission is a simple one: – secure single payer Medicare for all national health insurance for the ...
  13 hours ago

• Illegible Signatures Now Considered Medicare Fraud

  
  Better Health — Authority: 576
  How widespread is Medicare fraud ?  The government is now reporting Medicare fraud rates almost three times higher than previously accounted for, at 47 billion dollars this year.  How could Medicare Fraud triple in a year?  The answer is simple. In an effort to be more honest with data collecting, Obama ...
  18 hours ago

• The Un-American Pledge, Nietzsche (Republican), Islamists, Anti-Statism, Health Care Reform (again), and Abortion Politics

  
  2parse — Authority: 130
  Today, I present to you an early addition of the best reads for the long Thanksgiving weekend… 1. The Un-American Pledge. Michael Lind explains why the Pledge of Allegiance is un-American . 2. Nietzsche was a Republican . The Economist’s Democracy in America discusses Medicare and Nihilism . As it is ...
  18 hours ago

• What Do Health-Care Reform, the 40-Hour Work Week, Unemployment Insurance, the Minimum Wage, etc., Have in Common?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 659
  Well, they were all brought to you be political progressives, they were all opposed by political conservatives, and they all are now viewed as fundamental presuppositions of a healthy society by virtually everyone.  Okay, all but health-care reform, but trust…
  19 hours ago

• Could an Independent Commission Save Medicare?

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 690
  Broad concerns about the federal deficit could lead to a new approach to taming Medicare costs.
  19 hours ago

• U.S. Bishops Voice Disappointment in Abortion-Funding Provisions in Senate Health Bill, Urge Better Care for Immigrants and Affordability

  
  MetroCatholic — Authority: 513
  WASHINGTON DC ( MetroCatholic ) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Senate to make essential changes its health reform bill in order to keep in place federal law on abortion funding and conscience protection on abortion, protect access to health care for immigrants and include strong ...
  21 hours ago

• Owner of Detroit Rehabilitation Facility Pleads Guilty to $18.3M Medicare Fraud Scheme

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 145
  Suresh Chand has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to launder money as part of an $18.3 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a joint news release by the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. ...
  21 hours ago

• Hospital Officials Report Job Cuts, Concern About Possible Effects Of Reform

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Several news outlets find that hospital executives are worried about their facilities finances, and for a Chicago hospital the prospect of health care reform brings even more concerns.
  22 hours ago

• KHN Column: Answers From Iowa

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  In this Kaiser Health News column, Michael L. Millenson writes about insights one could gain from paying attention to whats happening in Iowa. "The Des Moines home of the Chicago Cubs AAA farm team boasts of being one of the top minor league facilities in the country.
  23 hours ago

• New Medicare Rules On Home-Oxygen Affect Patients, Businesses

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  The Wall Street Journal: "New Medicare rules designed to reduce waste and fraud in medical-equipment reimbursements are driving some home-oxygen suppliers out of business and leaving patients scrambling to find new providers.
  23 hours ago

• Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act Of 2009

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Statement by APTA President R. Scott Ward, PT, PhD The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) applauds the US House of Representatives for taking recent action to ensure that Americas seniors and people with disabilities have access to high quality care rehabilitative services.
  23 hours ago

• What’s Best for Our Breasts?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  OK, I’m jumping into this controversy about screening for breast cancer (mammograms, self exams, and the under- versus over-50 issue) a week late, but not because I haven’t been following the stories.  It’s kind of hard to know how to talk about one’s breasts when one has the perspectives of both an economist ...
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• Anti-Health Care Reform Forces On The Wrong Side Of History

  
  The Liberal Curmudgeon — Authority: 130
  Nicholas D. Kristof reminds us of the history of opposition to progressive legislation such as Social Security and Medicare. Those who were on the wrong side of history in the past sound remarkably similar to those railing against health care reform today: Indeed, these same arguments we hear today against health ...
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• U.S. Sen. Grassley: Grassley seeks information about impact of proposed Medicare tax increase

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 516
  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley said today that he’s asked for information from the Joint Committee on Taxation about which taxpayers would be impacted by the Medicare payroll tax increase in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. “If Democratic leaders want to increase Medicare ...
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• Column: Health reform threatens practice of charitable care

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 532
  My new column on health care was published in the Detroit News today. Full text follows: As the health care debate moves to the U.S. Senate, much of the focus has been on how the Catholic bishops’ support of the amendment by U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, the Menominee Democrat, to prohibit the use of tax dollars to ...
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• The Assault on Medicare Advantage Plans is Already Underway

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 529
  About 660,000 people nationwide — or 7 percent of Medicare Advantage enrollees — are in plans that are set to close… Medicare Advantage enrollees who do nothing and remain in the same plan in 2010 will see their monthly premiums increase an average of 32 percent… Medicare Advantage plans are shifting more ...
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