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Dirty Harry Reid Tells Mrs. Pelosi to STFU
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I don’t what else you can make of this, Fox News : Senate Democrats are warning the House not to make any significant changes to the health care package heading toward a vote in their chamber if they want the bill to survive past Christmas. Do not mess with this bill. That was the message Senate Democrats ...4 hours ago -
Snark of the Day: Bill Kristol
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Snark of the Day, Bill Kristol, video: Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit .15 hours ago -
The Democrats’ Health ‘Reform’ Bill: Kill It Before It Comes to Life!
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OpEdNewsDecember 16, 2009By Dave LindorffGive credit to Howard Dean. This still practicing physician, former governor of Vermont, former chair of the Democratic Party and former Democratic presidential candidate has called for progressive members of Congress in both houses to join their Republican colleagues in ...3 days ago -
Snark of the Day: Keith Olbermann
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Ok Keith Olbermann is an arrogant ass, but even an ass can have his day. Olbermann goes off against Harry Reid health care mandate , albeit for the wrong reasons: Olbermann is right that the a health care mandate is illegal. He no intention of buying government mandated insurance. Bravo. Hat ...3 days ago -
The Progressive Case For Passing The Bill
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thinkprogress.orgHEALTH CAREThe Progressive Case For Passing The BillAfter months of debate, countless revisions, and significant right-wing obstructionism, the Senate is just days away from its self-imposed Christmas deadline to pass a health care reform bill. Since the public option and Medicare buy-in provisions ...3 days ago -
Health-care bill wouldn’t bring real reform
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By Howard DeanThursday, December 17, 2009If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers’ monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition ...3 days ago -
Obama Loses the SEIU
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From a letter from Andy Stern to the members of the Service Employees International Union , to her members: SEIU does not accept that this monumental effort – that this reform that is so necessary to the health and wellbeing of our economy , our families and our future – can be over without a fight. A fight to ...3 days ago -
Glaxo licenses cold-sore treatment
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Philadelphia Inq reports: Drug company GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. said it would pay an Ann Arbor, Mich., company an initial $14.5 million to license a new over-the-counter compound for cold-sore treatment. The agreement with NanoBio Corp. provides for added milestone payments of up to $40 million, plus royalties on ...3 days ago -
Merck names Tufts dean to new post
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Philadelphia Inq reports: Merck & Co. Inc. created the post of chief medical officer and named the former dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine to the job. Michael Rosenblatt, a Harvard Medical School graduate, will be the company’s “primary voice to the global medical community and will speak to ...3 days ago -
Lourdes to pay $8M in Medicare case
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Philadelphia Inq reports: Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services Inc. , Camden, has agreed to pay $7.95 million to settle civil Medicare fraud allegations involving two of its hospitals, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The hospitals are Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden and Our Lady of Lourdes ...3 days ago -
Creature of dysfunction
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Philadelphia Inq reports: I’m not quite sure how we wound up with President Lieberman. Last I recall, he completed his sole bid for the presidency on Feb. 3, 2004, when he got his butt kicked by losing seven out of seven Democratic contests. Yet thanks to the undemocratic rules and routinized dysfunction of the ...3 days ago -
Maternity system rebirth
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Philadelphia Inq reports: By ELMER MONEY THERE ARE now only eight hospitals offering maternity services in the Philadelphia region. Eighteen obstetric units or hospitals with them have closed over the last 12 years.This is of great significance for developing city neighborhoods and, as an at-large candidate for ...4 days ago -
Democrats vow to close Medicare ‘doughnut hole’
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Philadelphia Inq report: WASHINGTON - It’s an annual ordeal for many seniors living on a budget. Medicare’s coverage gap for prescription drugs , $3,610 next year , has steadily gotten bigger since the benefit’s inception. But if Democrats have their way on health care overhaul, the dreaded “doughnut hole” ...4 days ago -
Senate health bill unlikely to include Medicare buy-in
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DEMOCRATS SET TO SCALE BACK Insufficient support for public-option alternativeBy Shailagh Murray and Lori MontgomeryWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, December 15, 2009Senate Democratic leaders appeared poised Monday night to abandon efforts to create a government-run insurance safety net in their push for ...4 days ago -
President Obama writes a new health reform prescription
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Washington Post reports: On the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to take on the drug industry by allowing Americans to import cheaper prescription medicine. “We’ll tell the pharmaceutical companies ‘thanks, but no, thanks’ for the overpriced drugs — drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in ...4 days ago -
Dean urges defeat of emerging health care bill
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AP reports: WASHINGTON — Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean argued Wednesday that the health care overhaul bill taking shape in the Senate further empowers private insurers at the expense of consumer choice. “You will be forced to buy insurance. If you don’t, you’ll pay a fine,” said Dean, a ...5 days ago -
Obama presses health care bill
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Philadelphia Inq reports: By David Espo Associated Press WASHINGTON - Prodded by President Obama, Senate Democrats won tentative backing from one holdout and worked intensely to satisfy another yesterday as they grappled with the last, lingering disputes blocking passage of health-care legislation by ...5 days ago -
Seeking A 60th Vote
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thinkprogress.orgHEALTH CARESeeking A 60th VoteLast week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid replaced the popular public option in the health reform bill with a “Medicare buy-in” provision that would expand the federal insurance program by allowing Americans aged 55 to 64 to buy into it. Reid said the change was ...5 days ago -
Medicare plan may be dead
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Philadelphia Inq Reports: With no votes to spare, the idea raised doubt among some Democrats as well as the GOP. WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leaders appeared poised last night to abandon efforts to create a government-run insurance safety net in their push for a health-care overhaul, as they attempted to close ...6 days ago -
Drugmakers fight plan to allow imports
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A Senate amendment would allow the importation of U.S.-approved drugs, such as the diabetes medication Actos from Japan. (Jb Reed/bloomberg News)By Dan EggenWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, December 15, 2009Drugmakers intensified their lobbying push Monday against a popular proposal to allow Americans to buy ...6 days ago
