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• CEOs Corner: Why Health Care Reform Makes Dialysis Firm DaVita Nervous

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 765
  Now that President Obamas landmark health-care legislation has cleared both the U.S. Senate and House, many patients and businesses are seeking clues on how the final outcome could hit their wallets. With key differences in each bill, the legislation must be merged before Obama can sign off on it. Continue reading ...
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• Health care bill on brink of Senate passage (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obamas call to remake the nations health care system.
  3 days ago

• Health Reform Leaves Millions Uninsured, and the Rest Must Wait

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 765
  Barack Obama made providing universal health care a key goal of his campaign and presidency. "We have decided that its time to give every American quality health care at an affordable cost," Obama said as recently as June 11 . But as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a health-care reform bill that would still leave ...
  3 days ago

• Top 10 Stories of 2009 | #2: I can haz health reform?

  
  Facing South — Authority: 574
  Were getting closer! We continue our series of the Top Stories of 2009 here at Facing South. To see the earlier entries go here . And coming in at #2 ... No, this isnt another entry in the dreaded Lolcats franchise -- but it could have been, given the wacky and hilarious-if-it-wasnt-so-tragic road to health ...
  3 days ago

• Senate health bill is launch pad (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 470
  Politico – In an Ideas piece, Hacker calls the Senate health reform vote a “bittersweet” moment. More: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Senate health bill is launch pad (Politico)
  5 days ago

• Democrats Pin 2010 Hopes on Bill – Wall Street Journal

  
  Quick-est.com — Authority: 146
  ABC News Democrats Pin 2010 Hopes on Bill Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — Slumping in the polls and struggling to pass climate and financial legislation, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are counting on an historic health care victory to buoy their electoral prospects in 2010. … White House backs ...
  6 days ago

• Obama Clinches Non-Binding Climate Deal as Copenhagen Summit Ends

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 765
  After hours of frantic negotiations, President Barack Obama emerged from the Copenhagen climate talks holding an agreement with China, India, and other developing countries designed to fight global climate change. The agreement, which falls short of environmentalists hopes, nevertheless represents a political victory ...
  1 week ago

• N.C. voters steaming as Rep. Larry Kissell (D) turns against health-reform bill

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 950
  KANNAPOLIS, N.C. -- To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a year ago. Change came not only from President Obama, who narrowly won this swing state, but also from a mill worker-turned-high...
  1 week ago

• Axelrod: Insane for Democrats to oppose health-reform bill

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 950
  In the waning days of 2009, as the Obama administration searches for 60 senators to support its signature legislative push, aides find themselves haunted by the ghosts of Democratic primaries past.
  1 week ago

• Flower for Patients

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 420
  A group of internet friends (what do you call people you know only via the net? peeps? tweeps? there have to be better words) have been talking over the last couple weeks (via Google Wave and also on Posterous and Skype about what weve been calling " Fl ow er " or #hcflower on Twitter) about the ...
  1 week ago

• Entrepreneurship, the kind that creates industries and jobs on the scale well need in the next century, is about two things: Ideas that spring randomly from some slightly crazed dreamers head; and worse, they often get filthy rich if the dreams are real

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 141
  "We are going to spend four years treading water. If we tread quickly enough, we may get enough growth to save the Democrats, but not the nation." At the jobs summit, Mr. Obama said "I want to hear from CEOs whats holding back our business investment." Really? How about the worlds highest corporate tax rate? How ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Do You Trust About Health Insurance Reform?

  
  Health and Wellness — Authority: 147
  Amidst all the noise over health insurance reform, Vice President Joe Biden asks the important question, Who Do You Trust? Lori Heim, MD, (President, American Academy of Family Physicians) and Rebecca Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR (President, American Nurses Association) explain why doctors and nurses are calling for reform. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Gawande Right? Are Pilot Programs the Key to Delivery System Cost Reductions?

  
  e-CareManagement — Authority: 91
  Atul Gawande’s most recent New Yorker article “ Testing, Testing ” addresses the critics who lament that there is no master plan to curb delivery system costs in pending health reform legislation. Gawande retorts: “Is that a bad thing?” …and he answers his own question by describing the value of pilot ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blue Cross Blue Shield pushing state-based bills to make health reform unconstitutional

  
  Facing South — Authority: 574
  As the health reform debate reaches its climax, insurance companies have worked hard to cultivate an image of being reasonable, practical players -- willing to work with the administration and Congress to craft a policy that works. Behind the scenes, however, the insurance lobby is much more aggressive about ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brown gets his name on GOP amendment

  
  The Daily Briefing — Authority: 439
  For more than a week, Sen. Sherrod Brown and his staff tried to get his name attached as a co-sponsor to a Republican health care amendment. Nine times his staff members contacted the office of GOP senators and nine times they came away without any answer. So today, Brown, D-Ohio, marched to the floor and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wanted by Senate Democrats: A Republican or two to support health bill

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 765
  Filed under: People , Healthcare As U.S. Sen. Harry Reid tries to corral enough Democratic votes for his $848 billion health care reform bill, the Democrat from Nevada may find solace in the words of Mark Twain . When the writer was once asked if he belonged to an organized political party in the United States, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comprehensive health insurance is on the way Posted by Ed Koch

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 139
  The Democrats have pulled off a great victory. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is often disparaged by the media when compared to House Speaker Nancy Pelosis effectiveness. But he was able to line up 58 Democratic senators, plus independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders, so that the first obstacle to the Senates ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gov. Jindal still silent on "prostitute" money Republicans wanted for Louisiana

  
  Facing South — Authority: 574
  You know that $300 million for Louisiana in the Senate health bill that has caused right-wing pundits to call Sen. Mary Landrieu a "prostitute" and worse -- and attempt to discredit the Democrats health reform bill? Yesterday Facing South broke the story that it was actually Louisiana Republicans -- including ...
  4 weeks ago

• N.C. lawmakers ask for probe of Blue Cross advocacy against public option

  
  Facing South — Authority: 574
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina recently sent out mailers asking its customers for help lobbying against a public insurance option -- and its controversial actions are now under official scrutiny. Yesterday 20 North Carolina lawmakers -- 19 Democrats and one Republican -- asked the state attorney ...
  4 weeks ago

• HEALTH BILL HYPOCRISY? *Republicans* led push for Louisiana funding that ended up in Senate bill

  
  Facing South — Authority: 574
  Youve heard the story: To "buy" Sen. Mary Landrieus (D-LA) vote to bring the Senate health bill to the floor last Saturday, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) inserted a provision that would deliver up to $300 million in federal Medicaid payments to Louisiana. Mainstream reporters gave it ominous names like " The Louisiana ...
  4 weeks ago

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