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• Op-Ed: A Modest Proposal for the Reform Debate

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 129
  In an opinion piece in this week’s Newsweek , an economist confronts the latest controversy in the reform debate: the coverage of abortion services for women who accept government subsidies as part of reform. The Stupak provision set in to motion rather heated arguments over just how far taxpayer dollars should go ...
  4 days ago

• Non-profits Plus Medicare Buy-in May Replace Public Option (video)

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 430
  PBS’ Newshour with Jim Lehrer covers the new round of Senate negotiations in which Democratic leaders propose foregoing the so-called “public option” in favor of a range of private industry-run non-profit insurance plans regulated by the Office of Personnel Management. Proponents of the public option say the ...
  4 days ago

• Democrats blow the golden moment

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 651
  Now the White House staff is reduced to attacking the Gallup organization, while Democrats believe their popularity goes up by passing an unpopular healthcare bill while destroying the highly popular public option. Voters in 2006 and 2008 spoke with a thunderclap demanding change. They elected a Democratic president ...
  5 days ago

• Non-profit Private-run Health Plan Must Never Deny Coverage

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 430
  ThoughtPossible.com :: Democrats in the United States Senate, in hopes of reaching a compromise on health reform legislation, are reported to be considering a plan that would scrap the so-called “public option” for low-cost, full-coverage health insurance, in favor of a  non-profit plan that would be run by the ...
  6 days ago

• Time to Help Set Policy for Our Healthcare Future

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 143
  Healthy People is a program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that sets health objectives for the nation for a ten-year period. The current set of objectives is referred to as Healthy People 2010, but as 2010 is fast approaching, the department is considering a new set of health priorities to target, ...
  6 days ago

• A Personal Appeal: The Middle-Class Health Tax Must Be Stopped

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 651
  Liberal/Democratic Washington policy thinkers appear close to reaching the consensus view that the Senates excise tax on higher-cost health plans is a good idea. Heres the problem: The consensus is wrong. The so-called (and misnamed) "Cadillac tax" is unfair and unwise. Its also a political landmine for its ...
  6 days ago

• Help Fight the BoTax: Send Your Senator a Letter

  
  Suture for a Living — Authority: 512
  I am against the Cosmetic Surgery Tax (or BoTax).  I feel it is an unfair tax which will heavily affect women more so than men.  It will also affect many more in the middle class than in the wealthy class.  I’d like to join the Aesthetic Society and all of organized Plastic Surgery in fighting this unfair tax. ...
  6 days ago

• A Good Friend Is Hard To Lose

  
  Policy@Intel — Authority: 114
  Posted By: Eric Dishman My friend Leslie loved to quote from the famous Flannery O’Connor short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find , where towards the end, the Misfit (an escaped convict) says of the Grandmother: “She would have been a good woman . . . if it [sic] had been somebody there to ...
  1 week ago

• A Good Friend Is Hard To Lose

  
  Blogs@Intel — Authority: 138
  My friend Leslie loved to quote from the famous Flannery OConnor short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find , where towards the end, the Misfit (an escaped convict) says of the Grandmother: "She would have been a good woman . . . if it [sic] had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." In my reading ...
  1 week ago

• In Commemoration of Human Rights Day 2009: Immigrants Have Rights Too... Right?

  
  Immigration: It's Our Community — Authority: 116
  Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948 If you dont have your health, then almost nothing else matters. From the smallest of injuries to grave illnesses, poor health disrupts daily life and can ...
  1 week ago

• MLRs, Profits and Our Healthcare

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 127
  Yeah. It always comes down to money... There was a time, in the early 1990s, when health insurance companies devoted more than 95 cents out of every premium dollar to paying doctors and hospitals for taking care of their members. Today, insurers only pay about 81 cents of each premium dollar on actual medical ...
  1 week ago

• Obamas Wars, Obamas Casualties, Obamas Responsibilities

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 651
  On Veterans Day 2009, President Barack Obama walked through the headstones in Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, DC. He was deliberating his impending decision to escalate and then terminate the Afghanistan War. On December 1, Obama announced his temporary escalation of the Afghanistan War with the ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Speaks to Democrats, Sens. Durbin and Feinstein Speak to Media

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 129
  The big news in healthcare reform politics today really wasn’t the president’s pep rally to Dems to become unified in reaching its 60 vote caucus maximum; it was the realization that the Democrats know that a protracted standoff between liberals and moderates in the caucus could spell more trouble for the party ...
  1 week ago

• Saturday Reform Debate Notes from the Hill

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 129
  A weekend devoted to all things healthcare. It’s what this weekend is shaping up to be. Last night in a secret closed door session on Capitol Hill, senate proponents of the public option and more moderate Democrats met to discuss, as legend will have it, their differences on the language in the healthcare bill. Of ...
  1 week ago

• Sen. Kirk Addresses Senate About CLASS Act

  
  The Future of Aging Blog — Authority: 123
  Earlier today, Sen. Paul Kirk Jr. (D-Mass.) addressed the Senate about the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R.3590). Below is the transcript of Kirk’s speech (thanks to the Political Intelligence blog):Sen. Kirk’s ...
  1 week ago

• History in a Number: Senate Amendment 2837

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 651
  The idea of a Medicare for All type, single-payer healthcare system will be heard on the Senate floor. Late last evening, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont filed Senate Amendment No. 2837, and there are two additional original co-sponsors of this amendment, Senator Roland Burris of Illinois and Senator Sherrod Brown ...
  1 week ago

• Citing Your Enrollment At Harvard As Proof Theres No American Health Care Crisis

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 651
  I know what you are thinking - you are thinking that the headline of this post is a joke. But its not. Its not at all. Watch my CNN debate over Afghanistan and health care yesterday morning with former Bush speechwriter David Frum - specifically check out around 4 minutes in: As you can see, Frum insists that ...
  1 week ago

• In the Donut Hole: Medicare maxes people out

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 651
  The other day an elderly woman fell into a donut hole right before my eyes. I was standing in line at the drugstore, waiting for a prescription. The customers ahead of me were a diminutive woman leaning precariously on a cane — the quintessential little old lady — and her late-middle-aged daughter. As their ...
  1 week ago

• Are BPA Products Safe?

  
  Suture for a Living — Authority: 512
  I love the convenience of my microwave. It is especially good for reheating leftovers like the chili I made recently. I took the chili to the office in a plastic container for lunch the next day. The question is: are the BPAs in the plastic container a health risk? Should I put my chili in a Pyrex or ceramic bowl ...
  1 week ago

• Womens Insurance Amendment Set For Senates First Health Bill Vote

  
  Health Care - From Policy to Practice — Authority: 116
  As the Senate debates the health reform legislation, amendments are being advanced and Senators are reacting to the bill. Kaiserhealthnews.org reports that, "A bipartisan amendment to increase insurance benefits for women ... gets the first Senate vote Tuesday on health care overhaul legislation." The provision, ...
  2 weeks ago

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