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Senate Adds Online Consumer Reviews to Their Health Care Bill
21 hours ago ago from Repeal the 17th Amendment
Senate Adds Online Consumer Reviews to Their Health Care Bill; Open Congress.org The Senate on Monday unanimously approved an elegant, two-page amendment to the health care bill that Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR] , the amendment's sponsor, says will both simplify a consumer's search for the right health care company and make health insurance companies more responsive to patient needs. Under the Senate health care bill , by 2014 states would ...
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Quote How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care : The New Yorker Health-care costs are strangling our country. Medical care now absorbs eighteen per cent of every dollar we earn. Between 1999 and 2009, the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family insurance coverage rose from $5,800 to $13,400, and the average cost per Medicare beneficiary went from $5,500 to $11,900. The costs of our dysfunctional ...
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5 hours ago ago from Lincoln Walks At Midnight
A new study presented to the Legislature on Monday concludes that "West Virginia's health care system could save over $1.1 billion by going digital and centralizing patient care," The Associated Press reports. CCRC Actuaries prepared the report for the state Health Care Authority, aided by an array the system's public and private players. The touted savings "would be seen not just by government agencies, but by private insurers and ...
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6 hours ago ago from Capital Business Blog
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4 hours ago ago from VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local
According to a press release, senator Mark Warner is leading a freshman group of 11 Senators on health care reform issues. The eleven freshmen are Sens. Mark Begich (AL), Michael Bennet (CO), Roland Burris (IL), Kay Hagan (NC), Ted Kaufman (DE), Paul Kirk (MA), Jeff Merkley (OR), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Mark Udall (NM), Tom Udall (CO) and Mark Warner (VA). Since Labor Day, these freshman Democrats have organized six times to ...
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Liberal Senators Press for Expansion of Medicare
16 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON In return for concessions on their proposal for a new government-run health insurance plan, liberal Democratic senators pushed Monday for expansion of Medicare and Medicaid and more stringent federal regulation of the insurance industry. Luke Sharrett/The New York Times Senator Saxby Chambliss, speaking at a news briefing by Republican critics of the health bill. The Senate seal fell off the lectern. A ...
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A new study released by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) examines the Senate health care reform bill, and finds that a provision meant to hold corporations accountable actually encourages companies to duck their fair share of the costs of health care reform. The report examines the Senate bill by looking at its impact on America’s largest and most irresponsible private employer – Walmart. As written, the ...
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A generation ago Indian Country wasn't included in the conversation about health care reform. When Congress enacted Medicaid and Medicare it pretended that the Indian Health Service didn't exist. It was as if it had never occurred to the government, that it, too, ran a major health care delivery system. Say what you like about health care reform, the fact is that Indian Country is included in a big way this time around. If either the House ...
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6 hours ago ago from Good News Now
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OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente together with the National Patient Safety Foundation and the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems today announced the "Patient Safety Initiative at America's Public Hospitals." This two-year program is designed to enhance patient safety programs at public hospitals to ensure safe, high-quality care for vulnerable and low-income populations that depend on publicly ...
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