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18 hours ago ago from See First Blog
By Evan Falchuk A friend sent me this interesting graph from the blog of the National Geographic. You'll have to click on it to see a bigger version. It captures a lot of data very elegantly on a single graph Professor Tufte would love it. What it shows is health care spending per person across a group of countries, along with life expectancies, average number of doctor visits per year, and whether a country has a system of ...
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21 hours ago ago from The Christian Watershed
Here's a statement from Tom Coburn on the passage of the health care bill. Thought I'd post it here because I happen to agree with it: This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to ...
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19 hours ago ago from Persective
Well kids, as bad as it is, it looks like a health care bill is a done deal in the United States. Of course, it's nowhere near a good as the health care here in Canada or parts of Europe where it's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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20 hours ago ago from Angry Bear
Back on July 28th I posted on what I considered to be the most important provision of the original House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill in Sec 116: Golden Bullet or Smoking Gun Smoking Gun referred to the belief by Republicans that this bill was designed to ultimately transition to Single Payer, and Golden Bullet to my belief that they were right, that if you forced private insurance to give up its predatory business model that ultimately ...
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16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
In the spirit of Christmas and the beginning of a new year, not a new decade as I was recently informed {that will begin in 2011}, let me recap some of the most prevalent issues that are adversely shaping the United States. First, we need to resolve our educational challenges. No excuses. We must provide an equal playing field to all our children including: African-Americans, Asians, Caucasians and Hispanics who are completely ill-prepared ...
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21 hours ago ago from NPR
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14 hours ago ago from WalletPop
At 63, Billie Hoke is two years and a ton of worry away from the health care goal line. She will have to wait until 2011 to join the millions of Americans in the Medicare program for people 65 and older. Medicare provides relatively inexpensive -- and very secure -- coverage through the federal government. Hoke has no security now. She lost her health insurance in August when her employer dropped its health benefits plan. Since then, she ...
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17 hours ago ago from NPR
Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Senate Bill Could Hurt Insurers At Least Initially by The Associated Press Enlarge Associated Press President Barack Obama arrives in the State Dining Room of the ...
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