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• Why Dems Are Obsessed by Health Reform

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  They believe the liberal base expects them to deliver and will punish them if they dont. Voters are increasingly worried about unemployment, but Democratic leaders in Congress remain obsessed with passing health- care reform. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin was asked recently if a health-care bill would pass the ...
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• Urban Institute report on the "public option"

  
  Creative Destruction — Authority: 469
  This report argues that the virtue of a public health insurance option is that it offers a plan that can offer reasonable rates to customers because it can impose low reimbursement rates on health care providers. In other words, it uses the governments market power to offset the market power of hospitals. The authors ...
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• Health reform hits doctor deficit reality

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 149
  Health-care reform hits small-town reality: Even with insurance, patients need somewhere to go. read more
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• Questioning a $30,000-a-Month Cancer Drug

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 160
  Experts question the value of the expensive lymphoma drug Folotyn, which shrinks tumors but has not been shown to prolong lives.
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• Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-Ore] – Good Democrat

  
  J.M. Bell — Authority: 472
  Stealing from JasonThe again – because he summed everything up quite well. Witty . Rep. Earl Blumenauer sends up a bill: “Until health reform is enacted,” Blumenauer [D-Ore] added, “Members of Congress should get to experience the tender mercies of our fragmented, complex and exploitative health care ...
  17 hours ago

• Questioning a Cancer Drug That Costs $30,000 a Month

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  Preparing an anticancer drug. Many oncologists question the value of expensive anticancer drugs that can cost $30,000 a month but do not prolong life more than a few months.
  17 hours ago

• National call in for the CLASS Act

  
  Judy Vorfeld's Office Support Services — Authority: 116
  “I am writing,” says Peri Jude Radecic, of Arizona Center for Disability Law, “to urge you to make sure the CLASS Act remains in the final health reform bill. I urge you to oppose any amendment to strip the CLASS Act from the bill. The CLASS Act will help persons with disabilities to remain independent in their ...
  19 hours ago

• The public option and healthcare costs

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthEach month our blog team meets and as former hospital CEOs, we discuss some of the latest issues impacting the world of nonprofit hospitals and medical centers. We want to let you in on the conversation!Below you can read an excerpt from our most recent meeting:Kester ...
  19 hours ago

• Senate Votes To Offer Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Plan

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 676
  The Senate has voted to keep a new federal entitlement program providing long-term care insurance in its health overhaul bill.
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• Lawmakers have wooed seniors into the hole

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 133
  Readers should not that Obama made a deal with Big PhRMA to reduct the donut hole, not to close it.  What needs to happen is for the Plan D to be eliminated and go back to co-pay along with price negotitation.  As long as Obama is bought off by Big PhRMA there will never bee price negotiation in Medicare. All this ...
  22 hours ago

• Federal reform update

  
  Ohio Health Policy Review — Authority: 107
  As the Senate continues to debate its version of health reform legislation, Majority Leader Harry Reid has taken full responsibility for gathering the requisite 60 votes needed for passage of the 2,074-page bill (Source: “ Reids recipe for getting health-care deal done ,” Washington Post, Dec. 4, 2009). As of ...
  22 hours ago

• Abortion, Drug Prices, Cost Cuts: More Amendments to Watch

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 677
  Whats next in the Senate health-care debate
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• Free mammograms: Womens health in reform

  
  DiscussionDIVAS — Authority: 116
  You might have thought that all the sports news thisweek revolved around Tiger Woods and his “transgressions.”  But of course politics is something of a sport aswell, and there was plenty of gamesmanship on display this week, from PresidentObama’s decision to both send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan   ...
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• How the Bishops Lost Sight of Their Own Priorities

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 733
  This article is co-authored by Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program and a member of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress , and Ellen-Marie Whelan, a Senior Health Policy Analyst and Associate Director of Health Policy at the Center for American ...
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• Ben Nelson Latest Elected Official to Ask Catholic Bishops to Give Their Approval to US Law

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 733
  Just in case you had any doubt about the direct--and I mean direct--intervention of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in curtailing womens rights in US health reform legislation, here is the latest evidence of how some representatives are working at what appears to be the behest of the bishops. Congressional ...
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• Mikulski, Snowe, Collins, Vitter bring victory for womens health in Senate bill; ensure preventive care

  
  MOMocrats — Authority: 488
  Straight from Kaiser Health News today  (bolding mine, to highlight crucial points): " Senate Bill Moves Forward, Amendment Ensures Coverage For Womens Preventive Care" Los Angeles Times : " After days of delay, Senate Democrats pushed ahead Thursday with their drive to pass a healthcare bill by ...
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• My theory of the public option fight, and of health care

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 792
  Digby has a great post on the politics of the public option : Ezra believes that if the votes arent there for a decent public option then the horse trading should be around getting something good in return for giving up the public option rather than negotiating the terms of the public option. That would make sense ...
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• Sherrod Brown calls Republican bluff. Republicans pretend not to hear him.

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 792
  This is good, clean fun : Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and David Vitter (R-La.) are preparing an amendment to force members of Congress into any public option health plan that becomes law, frustrating at least one Senate Democrat who wants to join the effort. Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) said he is trying to co-sponsor ...
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• Radical concept: Know what you’re paying for in health care

  
  The Platform — Authority: 518
  The question was deceptively simple. It was answered with a telling silence. What would Barnes-Jewish Hospital charge for heart bypass surgery, Dr. Glenn Steele asked a St. Louis audience on Tuesday. “I can tell you what it costs at one of…
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• Why health-care reform cant control costs

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 792
  A reader asks: I heard (somewhere on NPR I think ... maybe This American Life) an argument that in many regions the public option and generally more competition among health insurers would actually drive premiums up. In these regions, the problem is that providers are too strong and insurers dont have the ...
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