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12 hours ago ago from Fresh Healthy Body
There are about 45 millions of Americans who does not have health insurance and it is due to the rising costs of health care . According to the national coalition for health care , In 2007 the total national health expenditures were expected to rise 6.9 percent — two times the rate of inflation. Total spending was $2.3 TRILLION in 2007, or $7600 per person. Total health care spending represented 16 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) ...
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15 hours ago ago from Regaining the Center
It appears near certain that the public option or anything that puts pressure on insurance companies to reform through competition is dead in the health care reform bill Congress is currently debating. For the insurance industry, this was do or die. Any type of “best in class” heath care would mean an end to the ridiculously high executive salaries as well as huge amounts of stock value. If insurance companies faced competition from public ...
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20 hours ago ago from A Call To Action
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23 hours ago ago from Libertarian Romantic Ideal
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22 hours ago ago from DelawarePolitics.net
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Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Are Progressives Just Whiners? Saving Lives Is What Matters
2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
All I want for Christmas is a health care bill from the Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled the final vote on Christmas Eve, and a win seems certain due to Ben Nelson's new deal for more Medicaid funds in Nebraska. That is, unless Joe Lieberman--the senator from Hartford (Insurance Co.)--plays grinch again. Or Mr. Potter. So why aren't we progressives happier? The bottom line, folks, is that whatever bill Congress enacts will ...
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5 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
If you've been following the health debate, nobody could blame you if you were confused today to hear that there is a new health bill that senators will vote on Monday morning. By our count, today's draft, with the so-called managers' amendment, is the ninth version of health reform to emerge from this process. Nobody said passing legislation was easy, but we're here to help you make sense of it all. Below is a breakdown of what the big ...
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