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• BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Single Payer Health Insurance | PBS

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  Buy the DVD: www.shoppbs.org BMJL4306_052209:N:DGR:N:N:609:QPBS Washington’s abuzz about health care , but why isn’t a single-payer plan an option on the table? Public Citizen’s Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Physicians for a National Health Program’s Dr. David Himmelstein on the political and logistical ...
  11 hours ago

• Newest Public Option Compromise: Medicare Buy-In

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 562
  This week is when the most intense negotiations are going on in the Senate. The most contentious part is the fate of the Public Option, with the Senate A%#hole Caucus (Lieberman, B. Nelson, Lincoln and Landrieu) threatening to torpedo the bill if it contains it and several progressives (Sanders, Burris) threatening ...
  13 hours ago

• Obama Rallies Senate Democrats to Pass Health Bill

  
  News You Should Know | BET.com — Authority: 436
  Rest was not on the agenda Sunday as the President of the United States met with Senate Democrats to rally support for the health care bill. The meeting with Barack Obama and the Democrats lasted 50 minutes as the Senate prepares to debate the legislation beginning Monday.
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• Why We Still Need the Public Option

  
  NYU Local — Authority: 505
  Policy-wonk Ezra Klein at the Washington Post, floated the idea last week that perhaps we should just give up on the public option for now. The votes aren’t there; the Senate basically needs 60 votes to get anything done (thanks Mr. Filibuster) and with even a pseudo-Democrat like Joe Lieberman promising to ...
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• Health Tip: Women Who Have GBS During Pregnancy

  
  Luciole Press Blog — Authority: 149
  Image: HERE Health Tip: Women Who Have GBS During Pregnancy Fri Dec 4, 11:49 pm ET (HealthDay News) -- Group B streptococcus ( GBS ) is a bacterium that is found in as many as 30 percent of pregnant women, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says. GBS is not ...
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• Pre-Budget Report: NHS IT programme to be scaled back

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  The multi-billion-pound NHS IT programme is to be dramatically scaled back in Alistair Darlings Pre-Budget Report.
  2 days ago

• This Is Why We Need The Public Option

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 562
  In a third-quarter earnings conference call in late October, officials at Aetna announced that in an effort to improve on a less-than-anticipated profit margin in 2009, they would be raising prices on their consumers in 2010. The insurance giant predicted that the company would subsequently lose between 300,000 and ...
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• United Kingdom: “This isn’t the Britain we fought for” say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WW2

  
  Romanian National Vanguard News Agency — Authority: 138
  Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand. Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her. As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her ...
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• Vitamin D May Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes

  
  Luciole Press Blog — Authority: 149
  Vitamin D metabolism. Image: HERE   Vitamin D May Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes Thu Dec 3, 11:50 pm ET THURSDAY, Dec. 3 ( HealthDay News ) -- New research points to the possibility of a genetic link between vitamin D and heart disease . People with high blood pressure who had ...
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• Project C.U.R.E.: Delivering Health & Hope to the World (sending donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries)

  
  Luciole Press Blog — Authority: 149
  Image: HERE Image: HERE Project C.U.R.E. PROJECT C.U.R.E.s mission is to identify, solicit, collect, sort and deliver medical supplies and services according to the imperative needs of the world. About Us PROJECT C.U.R.E. (Commission on Urgent Relief & Equipment) was founded ...
  4 days ago

• Want to Your Claim to Bounce? Try Government-Run Health Care!

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 606
  One of the most persistent memes the left uses in its government-run sales pitch is that even if government-run health care will lead to longer waits for health care, at least it won’t reject claim down like those evil (i.e. money-grubbing) private insurance companies.Well, guess what? Mark Hemingway found that the ...
  4 days ago

• National Health Insurance Debate Under Nixon

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  In 1971, President Nixon proposed a national health insurance plan built on heavily employer private coverage. Senator Ted Kennedy proposed what would today be called a single-payer plan. In 1974, the debate had morphed into Nixon vs. Kennedy-Mills vs. Organized labor. Despite the prediction in the second clip ...
  4 days ago

• Centenarian Told to Wait 18 Months to Get Hearing Aid

  
  Conservative Zone — Authority: 127
  This is one of the 100 stories told in the new book, “ Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care “, published by the National Center for Public Policy Research and written by Amy Ridenour and Ryan Balis. It is republished here with permission. Longevity apparently does not count for much in ...
  4 days ago

• Burnination

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 562
  The health care debate may be long and frustrating but it can lead to some interesting moments. For example, Tom Coburn and David Vitter thought they’d be clever and cute and add an amendment to force members of Congress into the public option should it pass. Sen. Sherrod Brown decided to take their [...]
  4 days ago

• Insurance companies fight regulation with cash

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 557
  Insurance companies are fighting a proposed amendment to the Senate health care bill that would repeal the health insurance industrys exemp... read more
  4 days ago

• Evidenced-based care

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 131
  On Thanksgiving day, while walking down a very uneven sidewalk toward the park with the grandchildren, Brenda tripped and fell.  She broke her fall by stiff-arming the sidewalk.  She bumped and scratched her face and badly bruised her hand.  She shook off her injury and went on to the park!  The next day, after ...
  4 days ago

• Support for public option continues

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 557
  Despite the massive right-wing PR campaign against it, 60 percent of Americans believe a public option should be included in final health ca... read more
  4 days ago

• Pray that You Never Get Michelle Malkin’s Undivided Journalistic Attention.

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 606
  You may have heard of Nick Kristof, two time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the estimable — nay, legendary! — New York Times. He’s hobnobbed with the rich and famous and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• In panic over jobs, Dems detour from health care

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  There’s a reason Barack Obama squeezed a hastily-arranged "Jobs Summit" into a White House schedule dominated by national health care and Afghanistan. You can find it on every page of "The Economy and Politics of 2010," a new survey of voter attitudes circulating among Democrats that, despite its dry title, betrays a ...
  4 days ago

• Crusading Professor Challenges Dartmouth Atlas On Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  The Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission , (2) taxing high-cost private insurance , (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction. Each of these cornerstones has serious potential to reduce our health coverage, while the ...
  5 days ago

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