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• Senate Poised to Take Up Health Care Bill Next Week

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  The Senate is set to begin debate Monday on its version of a sweeping legislation to remake the U.S. health care system, a showdown likely to last for weeks.
  8 hours ago

• Dems kamikaze mission: Health care by New Years

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin recently was asked if a national health care bill would pass the Senate by the end of the year. "It must," Durbin responded. "We have to finish it." Many other top Democrats share Durbins determination to meet this deadline. But its almost certainly not going to happen, for three ...
  9 hours ago

• Just Like Climaquiddick ObamaCare Is Dead Meat

  
  Journal — Authority: 563
  Rasmussen: Approval rating of US health-care system up 20 points since early 2008 And thats a good thing.  We all know that American Health Care isnt all that great, by our standards, but is far better than anywhere else.  Just look at Canada, Britain and most of Europe.  Anyway, our medical care could get a ...
  10 hours ago

• Spending Less on Food, Spending More on Health Care

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  As the health-care bill passes through Congress, one wonders about an issue that has been left out of discussions.  No, not abortion.  Food.  How much is what we eat linked to what we spend on health care? First, consider the costs. …
  12 hours ago

• Thankful for Obama

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The Obama juggernaut is fragmenting upon the jagged outcroppings of American popular resistance. Yes, his health care catastrophe might just pass Congress. Accounting gimmickry, rhetorical appeals to Americans most decent moral impulses, and $300 million bribes will do that for even the worst legislation. But the ...
  14 hours ago

• White House defends efforts to slow health costs

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  The Obama administration pushed back Wednesday against claims that its not doing enough to slow the growth of health care costs, a topic that senators will debate heavily in coming weeks. White House budget director Peter Orszag cited economists and analysts who say a pending Senate bill would take several steps in ...
  1 day ago

• Fact Check: Health Care Reform Claims

  
  Speciality Sites 24-7 — Authority: 136
  WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2009 (CBS) Congress has begun its Thanksgiving break, with Senate Democrats going home thankful they cleared a major hurdle on health care reform after voting to open a floor debate when they get back next week. Meanwhile, debate continues all over the airwaves about what the House and ...
  1 day ago

• Comparison of Democratic Health Care Bills

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  The United States Senate voted last week to debate their health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, their legislation is significantly different than the bill passed by the House of Representatives a few weeks ago. To help anyone curious about the differences between the two ...
  2 days ago

• Filibuster! The GOP Musical

  
  Technicolor Dreams — Authority: 132
  The media reminds America how vocally Republicans opposed the filibuster as partisan Democratic obstruction just a few years ago: And there was Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), who warned four years ago that “if the filibuster becomes an institutional response where 40 senators driven by special interest groups ...
  3 days ago

• Conason Reminds Scarborough That The Iraq War and Tax Cuts Ballooned the Deficit.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 133
  Joe Conason points out to Joe Scarborough that the Iraq war, coupled with tax cuts for the rich, did more than anything to balloon the US deficit. Scarborough wants to view such things as "the past" and thinks that "people who opposed everything George W Bush did" are bound to get it right once in a blue moon. This ...
  3 days ago

• Senate Health Care Bill Includes Tax on Cosmetic Procedures

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 737
  Washington, DC (AHN) – A provision in the Senate’s health care bill unveiled last Wednesday includes a 5-percent tax on cosmetic surgeries and procedures. If passed, the tax would go into effect in January. Proponents say it will raise an estimated $5 billion over the next 10 years and will help pay to extend ...
  4 days ago

• Newsweek Editor Admits: Health Care Bill a ‘Fiscal Fraud’ But ‘I’d Still Vote for It’

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Over the weekend, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas offered an intriguing insight into the MSM’s approach to the liberal health care bill slowly rolling its way through the Democratic-controlled Congress. After conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer accurately pointed out how the Senate bill only ...
  4 days ago

• Uncle Jay’s Word of the Week is ‘Class’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Uncle Jay reminds viewers today that it’s almost Thanksgiving, a time when we go from sharing our blessings with friends and family one day to trampling them to death at the mall on Black Friday.  His word of the week is “class” — as in having good taste or showing respect.In this week’s edition of [...]
  4 days ago

• Former Gov. List: Health care bill ‘so liberal,’ will cost Reid

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Former Republican Gov. Robert List said today that the nearly 500,000 uninsured Nevadans do not lack health care because they can receive public hospital and emergency room treatment in the state. "I think it’s incorrect to say these people don’t have health care," List said during a conference call arranged by the ...
  4 days ago

• NEWSWEEK EDITOR ADMITS: HEALTH CARE BILL A FISCAL FRAUD BUT ID STILL VOTE FOR IT -- BY RICH NOYES, NewsBusters

  
  COURAGE IN AMERICA — Authority: 167
  Over the weekend, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas offered an intriguing insight into the MSM’s approach to the liberal health care bill slowly rolling its way through the Democratic-controlled Congress. After CLICK TITLE OR HERE TO READ REMAINDER OF ARTICLE
  4 days ago

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  Last Wednesday, the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and key Democratic leaders announced their highly anticipated health care reform bill, which has already been voted to the debate floor. For those of you who do not remember, the House of Representatives unveiled their plan a few weeks ago . The ...
  4 days ago

• Will Medical Tourism Industry Realize Benefits From Passage of Government-Run Health Care Bill?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Recently, a friend shared a prediction that prompted me to wonder whether or not the medical tourism industry will experience a boom if government-run health care becomes a reality in the United States.In case you’re not familiar with the concept of medical tourism, it typically involves people from one country ...
  4 days ago

• Should the Government Pay for Christian Science?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 731
  Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are pushing to get a provision into the health care bill that would mandate equal treatment for “spiritual healing,” such as Christian Science prayer treatments. Sens. John Kerry and Orrin Hatch are trying to get it inserted into the Senate bill, according to the ...
  4 days ago

• Lieberman: I Dont Think Anybody Thinks That This Bill Will Pass

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 805
  On Meet the Press yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said the Senate health care bill wont make it out of the Senate as is. "I dont think anybody feels this bill, as Senator Reid put it down, though he made a lot of progress in blending bills together -- I dont think anybody thinks that this bill will pass," ...
  4 days ago

• Breast Cancer Guidelines Become New ‘Death Panel’ Scare

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  We reported last week that a government panel issued controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines, and predicted that the very real concerns they present would be twisted to raise concerns about the House health care reform bill .  Our prediction played out on Sunday’s This Week with George ...
  4 days ago

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