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• In House Health Bill, Kids Play ‘Lottery of Geography’

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  By Mike Lillis The Washington Independent Children’s Health Advocates Fear Repercussions From Ending CHIP How effectively will the House health care bill cover children? Turns out, it depends on where they live. The $894 billion health reform bill working its way toward a House vote this week would repeal ...
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• Low-Income Children Could Be Worse Off After Health Care Reform

  
  Poverty & Policy — Authority: 413
  Hundreds of concerned citizens answered the Childrens Defense Funds call to join a "stroller brigade" to the U.S. Capitol or in one of at least 16 communities across the U.S. These brigades were to demonstrate grassroots support for "comprehensive, affordable, accessible health care for all children, no matter where ...
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• Ad Audit: How Close Is The Message To The Truth About Pending Health Bills And Medicare?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau examines a new ad by a conservative advocacy group that warns that the health care bills now before Congress would hurt Medicare. He finds that the ad uses older Americans to exaggerate the impact of proposed Medicare cuts and ignores some improvements (11/4). This ...
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• Rockefeller: Proposal to Repeal CHIP Is ‘Harmful’ and ‘Intolerable’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who last month salvaged the Children’s Health Insurance Program in the Senate’s health reform bill, just issued a statement condemning the House legislation for proposing to terminate the program. “As health reform moves forward, we need to make sure children can keep their ...
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• Experts Favor Broad Medicare Reforms To Control Costs And Foster Health Care Innovations, Survey Says

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  A vast majority of leaders in health care and health policy believe Medicare has been successful in providing access to care and stable coverage to the elderly and disabled individuals; however only a small percentage think the program has realized its potential to achieve other important goals, like
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• Obama One Year Later — A Legacy of Lies and Broken Promises

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 634
  It’s been a year since the president was elected, and he’s already piled up an impressive list of lies and broken promises. The broken promises include his pledge to enact a “ net spending cut, ” his promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year, and his promise not to sign bills ...
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• Pelosi Bill Undermines Obama’s Vision and Its Own Policies

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 754
  On the campaign trail, then Senator Obama set a course for universal coverage of children through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and opposed an individual mandate. H.R. 3962 , as introduced by the House leadership, repeals the SCHIP program in 2014 and includes an individual mandate. ...
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• CHIP on Chopping Block in House Health Reform Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) (WDCpix) Nine months ago, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were all celebration as they hailed the renewal of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program. Last week, they called for CHIP’s demise. The $894 billion, 1,990-page health reform bill unveiled by House Democrats ...
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• With State Budgets Tight, Services Are Cut; Kansas Looks To Avoid Mandates

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  California cut program budgets aimed at providing care for the poor while in Wyoming, the programs themselves are forced to close their doors because of a funding shortfall. In Kansas, lawmakers are examining - ahead of final consideration of health care reform in Congress - how they can shield themselves from health ...
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• CBO: Few Americans Would Sign Up For Public Health Insurance Plan

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  The New York Times: "More and more, the Great Health Care Debate of 2009 is a numbers game. And the longer the debate goes on, the squishier the numbers seem to get. For months, many leading Democrats, including President Obama, have pushed for the creation of a government-run insurance plan to compete with private ...
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• Public Option Might Be Only A Minor Player In Changing Health Care

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Kaiser Health News staff writers Eric Pianin, Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby combine efforts to provide this analysis of the reach of the public option in terms of its potential impact on the health care system.
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• Feds bail out Massachusetts, but who bails out feds?

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 470
  Writes Grace-Marie Turner in the Wall Street Journal: Massachusetts is a problematic model on which to base federal health-care reform because the state relies heavily on Medicaid. Washington in 2008 agreed to provide the state with $10.6 billion over three years as part of its Medicaid waiver request, which allows ...
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• Scot Ross doesn’t understand how S-CHIP works as he attacks Walker on Money Bomb Day

  
  North Shore Exponent — Authority: 510
  Scot Ross of the ultra-partisan One Partisan Wisconsin Now issued a press release over Scott Walker’s call to cut S-CHIP known as BadgerCare.  Ross said: “But why would Scott Walker care? He’s got a $120,000 a year salary, taxpayer-financed health care and a lovely house with a big pool to enjoy.” Well, ...
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• States Lose Control, Families Lose Choices Under Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 754
  Speaker Pelosi’s mammoth health legislation, H.R. 3962 , includes the largest Medicaid expansion in history, adding as many as 18 million people to the program. Not only will childless adults become eligible for Medicaid for the first time in the history of the program, approximately 5 million children who have ...
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• Is Obama Really Doing Anything Besides Health Care?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman has an interesting story premise — while Washington focuses on health care reform, Barack Obama has quietly pushed through Congress a series of new laws that have long been on the Democratic Party’s domestic agenda. The evidence for this, though, is pretty ...
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• House Health Reform Bill Repeals Popular CHIP Program

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Not even nine months after President Obama, with much fanfare, signed into law a five year, $33 billion reauthorization of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, House Democrats have proposed to dismantle it. Under the $894 billion health reform legislation that House leaders unveiled last week, CHIP ...
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• Healthcare Reform: What about the children?

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 128
  I believe the children are our future Teach them well And let them lead the way Show them all the beauty They possess inside Whitney Houston wrote and sang this in The Greatest Love of All. The lyrics came to mind as I read this statistic: Uninsured children are 60% more likely todie in the hospital than ...
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• House Democrats Hail, Question Health Reform Bill

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  News outlets detailed the House health care reform bill and reaction from members. The Congressional Budget Office estimated its net cost to be $894 billion over 10 years. The New York Times: "The bill is similar in size and scope to one taking shape in the Senate, where Democrats control is more tenuous and the ...
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• New York And Louisiana Crack Down On Medicaid Fraud

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  The New York Times reports on unlikely Medicaid fraud suspects including a Manhattan painter and mime with properties in the Hamptons, a freelance artist whose two Manhattan apartments are valued at more than $1 million each and a dentist in the Bronx, all "were among 11 people indicted recently on charges that they ...
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• Government To Decide On Payment For Doctors Who Use Medical-Imaging

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  The government is weighing whether to cut Medicare payments to physicians who use medical-imaging machines to screen patients for diseases like cancer and heart problems. The decision could come as early as Friday. Lawmakers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services see the cuts as a way to prevent overuse of ...
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