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• Robert Reich: An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  I know youre in a tough spot. It would be bad enough if you only had to get Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln on board, but anyone who has to kiss Joe Liebermans derriere deserves a congressional medal of honor. But Harry, you really need to take on future health-care costs. The House bill ...
  3 hours ago

• An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  Wrap these reforms together -- a public option open to everyone (allow states to opt out of this if they dare), Medicare-negotiated drug benefits, no 12-year monopoly for new drugs, and a major... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  12 hours ago

• How Harry Reid’s Fiddling With the Tax Plans in the Health Bill

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  Possibilities include a higher payroll tax for high earners, and a scaled back tax on high-end health insurance.
  2 days ago

• Dissident Docs Fail to Dislodge AMA’s Backing of House Health Bill

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  The vote amounted to a validation for the position of AMA head J. James Rohack, who wanted to keep the groups hand in the overhaul process.
  4 days ago

• Unhappy Docs Push AMA to Drop Support for House Health Bill

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  Some physicians are fuming that the AMA backed the bill even though it lacks House bill medical-malpractice changes and a solution to deep Medicare cuts to physician reimbursements expected next year.
  5 days ago

• Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  It hurts more now to be unemployed than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent, what with higher rates of indebtedness, less than half the savings and ballooning health costs. read more
  6 days ago

• Huge Costs and Huge Tax Increases

  
  Dateline: Washington — Authority: 435
  Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo says Democratic leaders in his chamber wont even release their health care bill.nbsp; But he says the earlier versions and what we see emerging in the House is too expensive and will be far more expensive as time goes on.nbsp; He also explains why Republicans walked out of Thursdays committee ...
  1 week ago

• Wait a Minute–We’re Paying for Health Reform with Another AMT?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 512
  It took me awhile to catch onto this (I guess real life got in the way of reading the legislation or even the revenue estimate carefully), but the House health care reform bill not only fails to provide a revenue source that will keep up with rising health costs (and thus is less likely to stay deficit-neutral ...
  1 week ago

• Natural Disaster Insurance: Do You Need It? – Bucks Blog – NYTimes.com

  
  Compare Home Insurance Rates — Authority: 152
  With so many natural disasters making headlines, here’s a look at how to determine if your home needs extra insurance protection from Mother Nature. More: Natural Disaster Insurance: Do You Need It? – Bucks Blog – NYTimes.com
  1 week ago

• Another Health-Care Bill Detail: Cap On Flex Spending Accounts

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  The accounts let people pay for health care with pre-tax dollars.
  1 week ago

• Health insurer earnings are suffering from swine flu and coming reforms

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Company News , Earnings The onset of H1N1 flu season and the coming health-care reforms are putting health insurers -- and their latest quarterly reports -- in the spotlight. With the exception of Aetna ( AET ), most insurers shares have dropped as investors worry about potential fallout of reform and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Under House Bill Small Business Premiums Will Increase

  
  BusinessTrends Blog — Authority: 126
  In a new report on the impact of health care reform on premium costs , WellPoint found that legislation with provisions similar to those unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on October 29 will increase costs for small business owners and the self-employed. The insurance company found that in the fourteen states ...
  2 weeks ago

• 23 Web Sites to Help You Figure Out Health Care Prices

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  A new generation of Web sites is making it a bit easier for patients to know how much treatments will cost.
  2 weeks ago

• Americans cant afford to grow old as nursing home costs soar

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 721
  Filed under: Budgets , Health , Retirement advice It seems not all industries are suffering from the recession. Even though Americans are paying less on everything from hotel rooms to holiday gifts, and small businesses are fighting to hang on to their dwindling credit, the recession-inspired rollback theme ...
  2 weeks ago

• Getting an Advance Look at the Doctor’s Bill

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  A consumer Web site will allow patients around the country to check n advance on how much they how much they are likely to be reimbursed for out-of-network health-care services in their area.
  2 weeks ago

• 5 Financial Steps to Prepare for the End of the Year

  
  Sound Money Matters — Authority: 422
  The end of the year is just over two months away, and at least three weeks of that will be gobbled up by various holidays. So, take the time now to assess what you need to do to maximize your money by the end of the year. Spend Down Your FSA If you have a flexible spending account , any unused funds will vanish ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some real data on U.S. healthcare costs - $800B annually and for WHAT?

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  reuters has actually done some research ... One example -- a paper-based system that discourages sharing of medical records accounts for 6 percent of annual overspending. "It is waste when caregivers duplicate tests because results recorded in a patients record with one provider are not available to another or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Be careful: Fake rise in GDP could manipulate people to spend more.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  Of course the economy will bounce back thanks to the hard working entrepreneurs and corporations along with the discretionary consumers. Credits that Obama won’t address & only credits his stimulus bill. which had nothing to do with the rise in GDP (naysayers, tell me one part of Obama’s stimulus bill that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Burning The Future: Coal In America (Trailer)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Burning The Future: Coal in America, a documentary from director David Novak, investigates the raging conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virgina, and by examining the devastating health and environmental risks created by mining, debunks the myth of “clean coal”.  Just by watching the ...
  3 weeks ago

• International Medicine

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 441
  I have finally got around to reading T.R. Reid’s The Healing Of America. It is well written and readable as it describes other health care systems around the world and tries to apply it to the problems we face in our system. To be accurate, Reid points out that we do not really have a system, just a patchwork of ...
  3 weeks ago

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