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• Bloomberg Press: Fight Looms Between House and Senate Democrats on Cutting Funds to Medicare Advantage

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  A fight still looms between House and Senate Democrats(regarding cutes to Medicare Advantage). The House health-care bill contains about $50 billion more in cuts to Medicare Advantage than the Senate. The House plan also would target rural areas for much of the reduction. In the Senate, where Montana’s Max Baucus ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (82) Karen Ignagni on Reducing the Cost of Health Care

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 428
       Karen Ignagni, President of AHIP (Americas Health Insurance Plans), has issued a clarion call to reduce the overall cost of health care in the United States.      On December 3 AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies, posted a number of entries on its blog quoting experts who ...
  2 days ago

• Comcast CEO endorses Senate health bill

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The chairman of Comcast endorsed the Senate health care bill in a letter Thursday to President Barack Obama, saying, "We cannot allow perfection to stand in the way of critically needed and very good legislation." "While there has been much controversy and debate over hundreds of provisions and alternatives, it is my ...
  4 days ago

• Women Discriminated Against, Charged More for Health Care

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  If it becomes law, the bill currently passed today in the U.S. House would end the practice of setting premiums higher for females and denying coverage to women simply because of their gender.Today, too many women in the U.S. depend on a health care system that is failing them.According to a 2008 report by the ...
  5 days ago

• An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums under the U.S. Senates Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
   Information below has come for a Congressional Budget Office(CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation Report, which has been released on November 30, 2009. To read the entire report Download 11-30-Premiums     The CBO’s and JCT’S Definitions of insurance groups: Nongroup Policies: New ...
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• Latte Links (11/29)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Some miscellany from the weekend: Des Moines Conservative Examiner: Huckabee Says He Probably will not run in 2012 World: Morality without God? by Marvin Olasky (HT: Stand to Reason ) The Blog Prof: ObamaCare Could Approach $7 Trillion Over 10 Years Thomas Sowell: Solving Whose Problem? (HT: ...
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• Congressional Budget Office Estimate of Subsidies and Payments at Different Income Levels Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(The Senator Reid Bill)

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
    Download Reid_Subsidy_Examples_11-20  for the complete CBO analysis.    The enclosed table focuses on enrollees who purchase a “reference” plan—the second lowest cost “silver” plan, as defined in the bill—because federal subsidies would be tied to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breaking News from the Washington Post: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to Unveil $849 Billion Compromise Health-Care Bill

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has assembled a compromise health package that would expand coverage to more than 31 million Americans at a cost of $849 billion over the next decade, a senior leadership aide said late Wednesday. The cost of the package would be more than made up for by cuts in future Medicare ...
  3 weeks ago

• Know the Difference Between an Individual Health Insurance Plan and a Family Health Insurance Plan

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 141
  Individual health insurance plans and family health insurance plans, while basically the same, differ in degree of coverage as well as cost. Learn the difference between the two types of insurance products. Individual Health Insurance Plans and Family Health Insurance Plans – Do You Know the Difference? Trying to ...
  3 weeks ago

• You, You, You Spend too Much!

  
  The HSA Coalition — Authority: 443
  James Pethokoukis of Reuters is at it again, subversion-via-blog . So in the little sit down with the President, the Chinese made clear they did not believe a word of the President’s promises about ObamaCare not adding to the deficit. The Chinese asked uncomfortable questions about the cost of ObamaCare: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reform at your expense: Health premiums to skyrocket

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The health-reform bill that the Senate will soon debate may differ markedly from the one written by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that passed the House -- but both would raise the cost of health care for ordinary Americans. Such an approach is at odds with the chief goal of reform -- to increase access to care by reducing the ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Health Bill Would Lower Medicare Payments, Report Finds

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  Though President Obama pledged health care legislation would bring down the cost of health care "while strengthening the financial health of Medicare," the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid issued an official analysis that found the House bill breaks both pledges. 
  3 weeks ago

• Poll: Cost of Health Care Reform a Top Concern

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  Costs for those with coverage could rise because people in poor health whod been shut out of the insurance pool would now be included, and they would get medical care they could not access before.
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• "The Affordable Health Care for America Act:” After the Tumult and Shouting Subside, Will the House Divide and Fall? By DrTed

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  When Speaker Pelosi announced passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), Democrats in the House of Representatives erupted in cheers and high fives.   Across the aisle, the Republicans watched glumly.   Afterwards, the Democratic and Republican House Leaders made ...
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• Big Insurance Companies and Big Pharmas Interest in Health Care Reform by Robert Reich

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  Salon; September 2009 Americas biggest private insurers and Big Pharma are drooling over the prospect of tens of millions more Americans buying insurance and drugs because the pending legislation will require them to, or require employers to cover them. The pending expansion of Medicaid will also be a bonanza. ...
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• Fat in Japan: A crime?

  
  Our Lady of Weight Loss — Authority: 130
  Heres a tasty tidbit for you that offers plenty of food for thought. While many of us gain a pound or two or even six over the holidays and suffer the indignity of broken zippers and split seams; in Japan, employees face an annual FATsical exam! Waists are measured! Humiliation is served up straight! Because ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reuters: Healthcare Reforms will Cost U.S. States Millions

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  (Health-care reform) Bills in both the Senate and the House of Representatives would make more people eligible for Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor that states administer with reimbursements from the federal government. At the same time, any bill that makes it to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wednesday, November 12, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 128
  According to government projections, U.S. health care spending is estimated to have reached $2.4 trillion in 2008 and is projected to experience its largest single-year increase as a share of the economy in 2009 as the effects of the recession ripple through the health care sector, federal analysts report in a study ...
  4 weeks ago

• Have the Dems Deep-Six Children’s Health Insurance Program(CHIP)to Appease the Insurance Industry?

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  From the Washington Independent 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Congressman John Yarmuth(D-KY) will Discuss the Health Care Bill at the Upcoming League of Women Voters Meeting

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 435
  Congressman Yarmuth will attend the League of Women Voters meeting on Monday (November 9 th ) night to discuss Health Care Reform and answer questions. Feel free to invite anyone you know who is interested in this issue to this meeting. The meeting is at 6:00 PM at the Leagues building, 115 South Ewing, which is ...
  4 weeks ago

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