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• Health Care Financing Reform: (97) Extent of Coverage and Subsidies in the House and Senate Bills

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 477
       If a principal goal of health care reform is universal coverage, both the House and Senate bills fall short of this ideal.  But each bill gets us most of the way there.      According to the CBO, the House bill would extend coverage to an additional 36 million Americans by the year 2019; the Senate ...
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• The 800 pound gorilla in the health care bill

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 141
  "Dont the American people deserve to know the "true" cost of ObamaCare?" Throughout the debate on President Obamas relentless push to reform Americas Health Care both the House and the Senate have taken great care to keep the price tag close to the arbitrary $900 Billion cost target proposed by the President. ...
  17 hours ago

• Catholic Hospitals Endorse Senate Abortion Compromise

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 763
  The Catholic Health Association — which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals across the country — said said in a statement that it was ‘encouraged’ and ‘ increasingly confident ‘ that the abortion compromise in the Senate health care bill “can achieve the objective of no federal funding for ...
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• Senate bill could hurt insurers initially

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Health insurers get some big presents in the Senates health overhaul bill -- about 20 million new customers and no competition from a new government plan. Taking advantage of those boons might take some time, though. The bill imposes hefty new taxes and coverage rules that will pinch insurers by ...
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• Paul Krugman: Tidings of Comfort

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  Indulge me while I tell you a story — a near-future version of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” It begins with sad news: young Timothy Cratchit, a k a Tiny Tim, is sick. And his treatment will cost far more than his parents can pay out of pocket. Fortunately, our story is set in 2014, and the Cratchits ...
  2 days ago

• Senate bill could hurt insurers at least initially

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Health insurers get some big presents in the Senates health overhaul bill — about 20 million new customers and no competition from a new government plan.
  2 days ago

• Sen. Chuck Schumer mum on Senate health care bill that could bring cuts to New York

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - When the feds whack New York, you usually hear Chuck Schumer lead the outrage. But on health care, hes been practically mute about some mighty hits headed our way. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both slammed the Senate bill Monday, charging it would cost the city more than $500 ...
  2 days ago

• Dependence Day

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Legerdemain: Remember the $246 billion that Democrats were going to take out of Medicare to keep the program solvent as well as help fund their health care reform schemes? Turns out it was just a fantasy. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Democrats double-counted funds in their health care plans, ...
  2 days ago

• The massive accounting blunder that should sink health care reform

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Yesterday, David discussed the CBOs miscalculation regarding the Senate health care bill. Democrats had been insisting that bill somehow cut the deficit and strengthened Medicare, but as it turns out the CBO had to clarify that the savings of the bill were being double counted. The "savings" the bill produces either ...
  2 days ago

• Republicans Look for Mechanisms to Halt Health Insurance Bill

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  Congress may be gone for several weeks enjoying a winter holiday, but Republicans have vowed to keep up the pressure on Democrats who succeeded in getting their Senate health insurance overhaul bill passed before Christmas -- if just barely.  
  3 days ago

• Senate Passes Sweeping Health-Care Bill

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  60-39 Vote Is Landmark in Effort to Expand Insurance Coverage Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
  3 days ago

• Pro-Life Democrat Predicts Senate Health Care Bill Will ‘Go Down in Flames’ in House, Unless. . .

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Senate health care bill is dead on arrival in the House of Representatives unless major changes are made, including removal of special “carve outs” for Medicaid funding for certain states and inclusion of language barring taxpayer-funded health plans that cover abortions, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) told ...
  3 days ago

• Senate Passes Health Care Bill: Funds Abortions, Mandates Insurance Coverage

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Senate Passes Health Care Bill: Funds Abortions, Mandates Insurance Coverage Washington, DC -- The Senate today passed the government-run health care bill that includes massive taxpayer funding of abortion and opens the door for the Obama administration to force insurance companies to pay for abortions. With passage, ...
  3 days ago

• Senate Passes Health Care Bill: Funds Abortions, Mandates Insurance Coverage

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Senate Passes Health Care Bill: Funds Abortions, Mandates Insurance Coverage Washington, DC -- The Senate today passed the government-run health care bill that includes massive taxpayer funding of abortion and opens the door for the Obama administration to force insurance companies to pay for abortions. With passage, ...
  3 days ago

• Health Care Reform: Now the Real Fun Begins

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 675
  Vice President Joe Biden led the Senate this morning while his colleagues voted from their seats in favor of Senate Bill 3590 (aka “Senate Health Care Bill” aka “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”). The vote was 60-39 along party lines, as expected.
  3 days ago

• Hey, Hey, LBJ! What Kind of Bill Would You Kill Today?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  At a Christmas party a couple weeks ago, back when it looked as if the Senate bill’s compromise would include the Medicare buy-in, a friend of mine told me that he predicted Harry Reid was gong to go down in history as the next LBJ. When I reminded him that the deal was not yet set in stone (the degree of Joe ...
  3 days ago

• Who will pay for healthcare? Senate and House still divided

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 24 (IANS) The passage of a $871 billion healthcare reform package by the US senate Thursday is only half the battle won in President Barack Obama’s quest for a key domestic goal that has eluded several presidents before him.The other half of the battle will be fought in a conference [...]
  3 days ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (95) The Senate Bill Passes

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 477
       Minutes ago the United States Senate approved the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and sent the legislation to a conference committee with the House of Representatives.          With nearly all of the Senators at their desks and Vice-President Joe Biden presiding, the Senate just voted ...
  3 days ago

• Senate passes health care bill in historic vote

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  UPDATED: In a vote resonating with history, Senate Democrats early Christmas Eve morning passed their version of health care reform, advancing the issue further than ever before in the nations history and setting up a bruising stretch-run to get a final bill to President Obama next year. "Its about people, its about ...
  3 days ago

• The Health Care Bill: Looking Forward

  
  Swampland — Authority: 724
  Over at TIME.com, fellow Swampers Kate Pickert, Amy Sullivan and I look forward to some of the issues that will be important as the House and Senate attempt to reconcile their two versions of the bill.
  3 days ago

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