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• 2,226 Uninsured Vets Died in 2008

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 812
  While Tom Coburn plays his procedural games , veterans are dying at the rate of six per day , according to a research team from Harvard Medical School. [A]n estimated 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they did not have health insurance. That "translates to six preventable deaths per ...
  7 hours ago

• Gaming out Stupak

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 137
  Even if the damned thing becomes law, why wont insurance companies offer retroactive abortion-coverage riders? Termination is cheaper than carrying to term.
  8 hours ago

• Healthcare Reform in Maine: Warning To U.S.?

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 135
  A recent New York Times highlighted Maine’s attempts at comprehensive healthcare reform. Their experiences serve as a cautionary tale for Congress.   The state established a public health insurance plan , expanded Medicare and Medicaid eligibility, and banned insurers from refusing to cover people with ...
  10 hours ago

• Health reform…big in Europe too

  
  Summit Notebook — Authority: 498
  U.S. healthcare reform is top of everybody’s agenda right now — but Barack Obama isn’t the only government leader chasing a new deal. “If you are talking healthcare reform, it’s our daily life in Europe,” Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Sorensen told the Reuters Health Summit in New York. “Prices are being ...
  12 hours ago

• Reid and Carpers Plan B: Put Two Really Bad Ideas Together!

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 812
  So Harry Reid has allowed Tom Carper to come up with the "Plan B" on the public option if he cant get 60 votes for opt-out. Carpers plan? Combine the two worst ideas : In states where private insurers fail to offer affordable coverage, Carper said the alternative would permit them to set up a non-profit board, ...
  13 hours ago

• Camille Paglia marches clueward

  
  Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian — Authority: 546
  Writing in Salon, Camille Paglia reminds me of the story of the seven blind men trying to describe an elephant based on the part of the elephant each one held. Discoursing on the healthcare reform bill just passed in the House of Representatives, she describes the pieces of the socialist totalitarianism that the ...
  14 hours ago

• Healthcare Reform Delay Tactic: Abortion Rights

  
  MyDocHub Blog - Online Health Community — Authority: 123
  It seems to me that Republicans and moderate Democrats have come up with yet another delay tactic. I don’t understand why the abortion issue should even be in the healthcare reform debate. That has already been addressed by the courts and the Hyde Amendment. It is a shame that some politicians would use whatever ...
  14 hours ago

• “He Knows When to Turn the Light Sabre On:” Obama and Washington One Year Later

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  Washington DC is so stuck in its traditions it is literally the land that time and technology forgot. Press galleries off the House and Senate floors are musty old museum chambers lined with musty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  14 hours ago

• Senate Preparing to Act on HCR: Public Option Back on the Chopping Block

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 812
  Reid has put the House healthcare reform bill on the Senate calendar to begin the Senates action on the bill. CBO scores on the proposed Senate bill, which melds the HELP and SFC bills, are expected at the end of this week. Reid filed a motion to introduce the bill on Monday, Nov. 16. Anticipating a Republican ...
  15 hours ago

• Healthcare reform and abortion

  
  Health Care - From Policy to Practice — Authority: 118
  Now that healthcare reform is in full swing, were sure to see several issues that votes and opinions collide on when it comes to coverage. Currently the House and the Senate are looking at if and how abortion should be covered. Should this be dropped from the health bill, it may leave many women with private ...
  16 hours ago

• Doctors cause workplace problems, survey finds

  
  StoneScribe — Authority: 110
  These medical “professionals” relegate notorious TV physician Gregory House to strictly amateur standing. A recently published survey of more than 2,100 U.S. physicians and nurses reveals that almost 98 percent of them have witnessed serious incidences of unprofessional conduct that crosses into criminal ...
  17 hours ago

• The Lone Republican

  
  Limit Magazine — Authority: 138
  It’s already big news: The House of Representatives passed their version of health care reform in Washington DC last weekend, clearing the bill’s first hurdle to become law. The final count just barely cleared the required number of votes needed for passage, a surprisingly close count given the easy majority of ...
  18 hours ago

• Government has created its own failure

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 140
  Im sure politicians of both parties thought at one point that catering to special interests was a good way to build a power base, but they lacked the vision to see what they were creating. Now, each gang of entitlement-junkies will fight over every piece of major legislation proposed, demanding their special ...
  19 hours ago

• The Ridgewood blog asks, Why not "jail time" for all the people who dont have health Insurance Now?

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 486
  ABC Interview with the President: Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance? http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/interview-with-the-president-jail-time-for-those-without-health-care-insurance.html During an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper today, President Obama said that ...
  20 hours ago

• Get Ready For Senate Healthcare 2.0 Coming Next Week

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 542
  …not like it really matters.  Once again, they hear us and could not be bothered with what we are saying. This would be the moment to put all emotions aside, step back, and watch closely.  I personally am tired of feeling like a greyhound chasing a sock.  How about you? Reid puts House healthcare bill on Senate ...
  22 hours ago

• Health cooperatives: a fast lane to nationalized health care (The Christian Science Monitor)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 454
  
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• Bill Clinton "Schools" the Senate on Health Care Reform

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 495
  Bill Clinton held a caucus with Senate Democrats to lecture them on the importance of passing healthcare reform. Apparently, the "twofer" president concept does not sound as bad to people as it did last year. Bills take on his talk:
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• About that non-vacuum in which Stupak happened…

  
  Reclusive Leftist — Authority: 616
  Kate Harding has a good piece in Salon that captures the PUMA-a-year-later zeitgeist we’ve been talking about here (to recap: A year later, world suddenly gets what PUMAs were talking about , House Democrats pass healthcare reform for men , and Rachel Maddow is becoming post-rational ). Harding’s piece is ...
  1 day ago

• The Psychology of Healthcare Reform

  
  design mind - business. technology. design. — Authority: 576
  The House has passed the first comprehensive reform package of the health insurance industry in decades, which is now up for debate in the Senate. This is a highly complex issue, but there are some quite basic reasons why it’s so difficult to accomplish significant reform, and these have to do with psychological ...
  1 day ago

• Why do Republicans oppose health care reform?

  
  The Reality-Based Community — Authority: 137
  Surely it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the racial composition of the uninsured. Of course not.
  1 day ago

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