health care reform

Welcome to the 'health care reform' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'health care reform'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “health care reform”

• Only 13 percent

  
  Fishersville Mike — Authority: 578
  Abortion continues to be the tar gumming up the works of health care reform. Despite the fact that only 13 percent of abortions in 2001 were paid for with private insurance money. Megan McArdle doesnt understand all the complaining from abortion rights groups. So I dont get the outsized reaction to all this--I ...
  2 hours ago

• The Health Care Debate Hypocricy of Senator John McCain

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  by Igor Volsky Think Progress.org This afternoon, Sen. John McCain ( R-AZ ) introduced the first Republican amendment to the Senate’s health care reform bill. The so-called ‘motion to commit’ would send the legislation back to the Senate Finance Committee and instruct that committee to remove the $491 ...
  3 hours ago

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

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 438
   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 ...
  3 hours ago

• Sheldon Whitehouse: "The debate will degenerate into tomfoolery."

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff Sheldon Whitehouse just now on Countdown : The debate will degenerate into tomfoolery. We have a good bill right now. There is room for compromise right now in this bill. I remain optimistic. This is a moment of destiny. It was Sen. Kennedys legacy. We believe we can get a vote for the public ...
  4 hours ago

• "Sideshow Bob" Marshalls Latest Looniness

  
  Blue Virginia — Authority:
  Check out the latest wackiness by "Sideshow Bob" Marshall . Believe it or not, this time Marshalls proposing a "healthcare freedom" constitutional amendment based on his belief that "it is unconstitutional for the government to mandate, at risk of penalty, that all individuals have insurance or that companies ...
  5 hours ago

• Why is paying for Afghanistan war necessarily more important that health care?

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 481
  Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders were the featured guests on ABC News "This Week" yesterday.  The discussion with host, George Stephanopoulos, centered on President Obamas upcoming announcement of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and the current health care reform debate.  There ...
  5 hours ago

• Jobs is Job #1

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 570
  “Kiss me!!” “What?” That’s right, I said, “Kiss me!!” Many a businessman is familiar with the basic principle of “kiss me,” that is “Keep It Simple, Stupid .” Regrettably, Washington is not familiar with that simplest of business principles. Legislative bills that run into the thousands of ...
  5 hours ago

• Health Care Reform : The Final Act

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 560
  Photo by Benjamin Simpson / Hodomania.Final curtain:The health care tragedyBy Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / November 30, 2009I was recently privileged to have the opportunity to discuss world affairs, and health care in particular, with an affluent Swiss businessman visiting in this area. He, as are most ...
  6 hours ago

• Latino voters see universal health care as the top priority

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  Something that should add some gas to the fire under the Dems butts, but Im sure theyll screw this up too. Latino voters in the United States see health care reform as the most important priority for the country and a solid majority expresses support for universal health care that includes a public option. (snip) ...
  6 hours ago

• Something for Everyone in the CBO’s Latest Health Reform Analysis

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  One report. Two very different interpretations. The Congressional Budget Office stirred yet another hornet’s nest Monday when it released its latest analysis of the costs associated with the Democrats’ health care reform bill, with each side of the debate already leaning on the report to bolster its case. And ...
  6 hours ago

• My Congressmand Does Not, In Fact, Rock the Casbah

  
  random babble... — Authority: 522
  After almost a month of correspondence and petition signing, Congressman Stupak finally got around to having one of his aides respond to me. In fairness, this letter is fairly well tailored based on what I actually wrote, and yet, it is ridiculously condescending, and predictably skirting of anything that I said. ...
  7 hours ago

• Why Are Pro-Choicers Spending So Much Time Fighting Stupak-Pitts? [Roe Vs. World]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 811
  Earlier today, Atlantic blogger Megan McArdle argued that Stupak-Pitts isnt that bad , and it certainly isnt bad enough to derail health care reform over. Whats scary isnt McArdles pragmatic position - its the anti-choice dogma wrapped around her words. McArdle seems to have a low opinion of the various ...
  7 hours ago

• Women, Listen to Your Mothers

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes (with characteristic brilliance) on the abortion-activism generational divide . Her finding: the post-Roe generation gets less worked up about the right to choose “not because younger women are any less supportive of abortion rights than their elders, but because their frame of reference ...
  8 hours ago

• Mammogram Hearing Set for Wednesday

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee has scheduled a hearing Wednesday to examine  contentious new guidelines recommending that women get breast cancer screenings less frequently and later in life. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force caused a storm this month when it suggested that routine ...
  8 hours ago

• Anatomy of a Beat-down Part 1: Why Kenneth Gladney was Beaten, and by Whom

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  On August 6, 2009 two Service Employee International Union (SEIU) leaders and a volunteer for Organizing for America (OFA) assaulted Kenneth Gladney outside of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town hall meeting on health care.  The perpetrators were arrested at the scene of the crime, and three months later charges have ...
  8 hours ago

• Debate opens on health bill; Democrats divided

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 806
  The Senate opened debate Monday on landmark health care legislation that would extend coverage to millions of uninsured and ban onerous insurance practices, with Democrats vowing to work weekends to deliver on President Barack Obamas domestic initiative by years end.
  8 hours ago

• “Loosey-Goosey” Anxiety Over Health Reform

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  A story by Lori Montgomery in today’s Washington Post offers an interesting critique of those of us who worry about fiscal sustainability in the context of health reform (emphasis added): As the long battle over health care is rejoined in the Senate this week, experts remain deeply divided over whether the ...
  8 hours ago

• Senate, reporters return to the health reform bill

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 476
  As the Senate gets back to work on health care reform, some reporters have taken a a good look at what’s contained in the proposed legislation. Mike Shields of the Kansas Health Institute’s News Service focuses on school health clinics , saying that both the House and Senate versions of the bill “differ ...
  8 hours ago

• In health-care reform, no deficit cure (slow to wake up to the cost)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  In health-care reform, no deficit cure Debate rages over bills impact on costs -- and how much that matters By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 30, 2009 As the long battle over health care is rejoined in the Senate this week, experts remain deeply divided over whether the legislation would ...
  8 hours ago

• CBO Report Says Senate Health Care Bill Will Raise Premiums

  
  Furious Seasons — Authority: 535
  This is definitely not good news for the Senate health care reform bill, which I still cannot find a working copy of (yes, that is weird): "The report, prepared at the request of Sen. Evan Bayh, found that those obtaining insurance on their own or through the government-run exchanges could expect to pay 10 percent ...
  9 hours ago

Comments about health care reform