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• 5 Reasons to Get Insurance Coverage for Home Health Care

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 454
  Insurance protection is essential now a days because in America hospitalization is much more costlier due to increasing new facilities the health care costs gets higher and higher. Here are five reasons to get the insurance for home health care : 1. Suppose some one gets major accident or ...
  9 hours ago

• Merry Christmas! Ed Hanway, Cigna CEO, Getting $73,200,000 Golden Parachute

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 712
  Ed Hanway, CEO of Cigna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, will step down at the end of this year, in just over a week. When he does, he’ll get $73,200,000 as compensation for a job well done. What makes Hanway worth $73.2 million? Well, for one example, he’s presided as Cigna denied a ...
  22 hours ago

• Dems Surrender - Insurance Companies Win

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 488
  During the election campaign of 2008, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party made a solemn pledge to the American people. They promised to pass real health care reform. They lied to us. Instead of actually passing real health care reform, they are now set to pass a bill that would leave the current broken system ...
  3 days ago

• Overreaching leaves Obama with few friends

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  By Kathleen Parker Sunday, December 20, 2009 Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health-care reform bill -- and all he got was a lousy insurance industry bailout that few can love. Lefties hate it because theres no ...
  3 days ago

• Marathon Reading of Single Payer Amendment, Union Square, NYC

  
  Green Party New York — Authority: 116
  Contact: Call 917-825-3562 or email Michael if you can participate!FRIDAY ACTION 9am-7pm: Marathon Public Reading Of Senator Bernie Sanders’ Single Payer Health Care Amendment @ Union Square in NYCThe Senate denied Single Payer a vote, so we’re taking it to the street!On December 16th the US Senate was to hold a ...
  5 days ago

• CBO: Insurance Proposal Would Effectively Nationalize Private Insurance

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 509
  A Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is the percentage of premium dollars an insurer spends on claims as opposed to administrative costs and other expenses. According to news reports , a proposal from Senator Rockefeller and others would limit MLRs to 90%. The Reid bill already requires insurers to issue rebates to enrollees ...
  6 days ago

• Whip (Health Care) Inflation Now?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  By Alan Reynolds During the runaway inflations of 1974 and 1979, Presidents Ford and Carter suggested that inflation was caused by the profligacy of American households. President Ford’s infamous “ Whip Inflation Now ” speech, for example, said, “Here is what we must do, what each and every one of you can do: ...
  6 days ago

• The Day the Democrats Died

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 482
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• Single-payer health care plan dies in Senate (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
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• Reid Won’t Even Tell His Base What He’s Asking Them to Swallow

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  By Michael F. Cannon Here’s my answer to today’s “Big Question” on The Hill ’s Congress Blog: Now that the “public option” is dead, both the Left and the Right should be able to agree: the Senate bill is nothing but a $450 billion bailout of the private insurance companies. In fact, the bailout ...
  1 week ago

• Navy Seals Prosecution “absolutely ridiculous” – Any Steps Towards Government Run Healthcare Will Cause Stock Holders of Health Insurance Stocks to Abandon Ship, Driving Them Out of Business – The BOPAC Report

  
  "The BOPAC Report" & Larry Sinclair's Allegations - ZachJonesIsHome — Authority: 126
  The BOPAC Report ChiBama Politics & Healthcare –   Obamanomics, ObamaCare, ChiBama Politics, Climategate, NavySealGate - All Leading to Socialist America! But will it lead to discovery regarding "natural born citizen"/ Birth Certificate issue? Working Americans need to realize that if Obamacare passes ...
  1 week ago

• Bland CBO Memo, or Smoking Gun?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  By Michael F. Cannon This weekend, the Congressional Budget Office released “ a very strange memo ” titled, “ Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios .”  You wouldn’t know it from the title, but that little memo is the smoking gun that shows how congressional Democrats have very ...
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• The Million-Dollar Man

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  First, Senator Joseph Lieberman -- the former Democrat, current independent from Connecticut -- rejected the so-called public health care option. Then he threatened to torpedo the entire health care reform bill if it allowed people over 55 to buy Medicare plans. The aim of that idea, like the public option, is to ...
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• Cancer Treatment: International Health Care Options

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 512
  With a new year almost upon us, many of us are thinking about health and wellness and that goes for preventive care against common cancers like breast cancer, prostate and colon cancer, among others. Unfortunately, many diagnosed with cancer are faced with staggering drug costs, even though some of those drugs, ...
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• Health Reform: Abortion is the Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 683
  As a Baptist minister from Nebraska born in Louisiana, I have watched from the pulpit as three formative events profoundly reshaped America’s view of its destiny and possibilities: the 9-11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the recent economic meltdown. I hoped that this year, life would be better for my ...
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• The Marvelous New Options Of Obamacare

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 431
  By Clyde James Aragon As Democrats work well into cold Washington evenings trying to hammer out a socialized medicine plan they can ram down America’s throat, they have been stymied in this over agreement on a Public Option – a government-run health plan competing with private insurance plans. While this ...
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• When Do Regulations Turn Private Insurance into Government Insurance?

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 668
  A new Senate health proposal might turn private insurance into government insurance, at least from CBO’s perspective.In the 1990s, the Congressional Budget Office dealt a key blow to President Clinton’s health legislation when it decided that the reforms would move large portions of the health...
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• Medicaid Children Get 4x More Antipsychotics

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 570
  If you’re a child in Medicaid, you already have a more difficult life than average ahead of you. Children in Medicaid programs have nearly twice the number of mental health problems than other children. But now new research suggests it gets even worse for children in Medicaid, according to an article in The New ...
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• Health-Care Reform to Dump Poor Kids?

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 454
  Oleta Fitzgerald, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office, says she is concerned over the welfare of Mississippi children if either of the two health - care reform packages considered by the U.S. House and Senate ever make it into law. The House passed H.R. 3962 earlier this month, ...
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• False Populism, Real Profits for Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  The third step in Robert Creamer’s  ten-step plan for imposing universal health care on America, according to his prison memoir, is to attack the private insurance industry: “Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health insurance industry and ...
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