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• Earth To Harry!

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 130
  Christmas eve morning, after passing what can only be considered a partisan health care bill, Harry Reid made this comment when talking about the feedback that he thinks the Democrats will hear when they get home for the Holidays:"Were going to hear an earful, but its going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness ...
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• Medical Loss Ratio Revisited: Cost and Coverage Controls that Work.

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  by Bruce Webb The Angry Bear Back on July 28th Bruce (from The Angry Bear) posted on what he considered to be the most important provision of the original House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill in Sec 116: Golden Bullet or Smoking Gun Smoking Gun referred to the belief by Republicans that this bill was ...
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• LA Progressive: December 20 to 26, 2009

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  No Chance Obama’s War in Afghanistan Will Succeed . If Afghans are dying by the thousands and Pakistanis have become refugees by the millions to ensure Obama’s political survival, the U.S. has lost any vestige of moral authority. -Sherwood Ross Reducing Our Only Existential Threat. Despite its ...
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• Health Care Reform: What Happens From Here?

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 137
  Before we took a break for Christmas, the Democrats in the Senate were able to come together in time to secure the 60 votes that they needed to pass the health care bill. The legitimate question now is — what happens now? The Los Angeles Times shared some answers to health care reform questions that may be in ...
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• Nullification of HCR sought in several States

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As previously reported, the Republican Senate caucus and at least ten attorneys general are preparing political, procedural, and legal challenges to the health-care reform legislation proposed by President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-8), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). But freedom ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (97) Extent of Coverage and Subsidies in the House and Senate Bills

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 477
       If a principal goal of health care reform is universal coverage, both the House and Senate bills fall short of this ideal.  But each bill gets us most of the way there.      According to the CBO, the House bill would extend coverage to an additional 36 million Americans by the year 2019; the Senate ...
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• Abortion and Health Care Reform: Practical Considerations

  
  The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog — Authority: 116
  The task of the House-Senate conference committee on health care reform will not be an easy one. Yes, the legislation passed by each chamber have many provisions in common. But where they tend to differ are on some of the thorniest, most controversial issues. Whether there will be a government-run health plan and how ...
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• Young voters disillusioned as Obamas passion falters

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The health-care-reform bill has passed in the Senate, but it has fallen short of the real reform President Obama promised on the campaign trail. The bill is now headed to a conference committee where it will be amended further. Meanwhile, a majority of Americans (55 percent, according to recent polls by Rasmussen ...
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• Memo To Congress: No More Pork!

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 551
  By Alan Caruba On the day before Christmas, the Democrats in Congress passed a alleged healthcare reform bill that the vast majority of Americans did not want. Nearly a million Americans had showed up on September 12 to let them know that, but they ignored them and now they have spat in their face, along with the ...
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• “The problem is that our leadership class no longer views Americans as adult constituents capable of making our own decisions: the(sic) view us the way parents view their preschool children.”

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 632
  A commenter at the Guardian (!) on the recently passed Senate Health Care bill. The entire thread is worth reading, particularly for her comments: Maybe I’ll cash in by starting my own insurance company. “Jennifer’s House of Health Insurance and Vintage Clothing.” The premium will be a flat $100 per ...
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• Complaints from the takers AND the givers...

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 136
       There is no shortage of Alabamians who dislike either or both of the health care reform bills approved by Congress. Governor Rileys unhappy, and Attorney General King is meeting with other Republican AGs to see if the special benefits awarded Nebraska to win Senator Ben Nelsons vote are a violation of the ...
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• British ObamaCare update: Bureaucracy spending up 50 percent

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 584
  The Democrats push for ObamaCare isnt about lowering health care costs, providing better care, or insuring more Americans--its about control and an expansion of government. Great Britain has had government-run health care, the National Health Service, for sixty years. And as the Telegraph tells us, like the Big ...
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• Odds and ends for 12/26

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 479
  Wheat from chaff, signal from noise, pick your phrase : Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., catches a lot of grief over a lot of subjects. Some of it, but only some, is undeserved. Zero Hedge offers a more-or-less complete, more-or-less accurate summary of the rest . Welcome to today’s edition of Simple Answers to ...
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• Senate health reform impact graph

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 440
  Generated using the Kaiser Health Reform Subsidy Calculator and explained by Paul Krugman. Tagged: health care reform, health insurance benefits, subsidies
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• VIDEO: "Some Democrats Are Thinking of Jumping Ship and Changing Parties"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 653
  By GottaLaff Via Heather at Video Cafe. So whos going to wave bye-bye? Heather, you, and I are thinking alike: Blue Dog ConservaDems and Joe Lieberman would give us housecleaning of the expected kind. But are we overlooking some less obvious ...
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• Where the Health Care Bill Goes From Here

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 735
  photo: Benjamin Chun via Flickr I didn’t write an appreciation of the passage of the Senate health care bill, or a frilly piece about how it’s the greatest progressive achievement since the establishment of Medicare, or some other such paint-by-numbers story. I’m not much for spiking the ball in the end zone ...
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• Health Care Graphic Du Jour

  
  Mike The Actuary's Musings Actuarial Musings — Authority: 129
  Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic encountered an interesting chart in National Geographic , which merits sharing: The chart shows for 21 countries (19 with universal health care; 2 without) per capita health care spending (left axis), life expectancy (right axis), and average number of doctor visits per year ...
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• As the year ends, take time to celebrate the Most Valuable Progressives

  
  Montana Women For — Authority: 112
  During the last few weeks of December and the beginning of January, most media sources publish lists of “best” “worst” or “most important” people, events, or issues of the past year.  After looking through many of them for inspiration in the cause of building the kind of world I’d like to see, I found ...
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• Liberal celebration of O’healthcare may be premature as lawsuit challenges begin planning stages

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The dancing in the Congressional halls may prove seriously premature as both Fox News and the LA Times both report on various challenges in the courts begin taking shape even before the Senates final vote early Christmas Eve morning. Organizations and lawmakers opposed to the health care reform package are getting ...
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• Vic Chesnutt: Free of Hope

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 576
  At 18, Vic Chesnutt drove drunk. That choice consigned him to a future in a wheelchair with limited use of his hands and arms, but with a powerful voice which rang strong until December 23rd. On that night, Vic Chesnutt opened a bottle of muscle relaxants and swallowed them all. He died on Christmas Day. It was ...
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