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Fundamental flaw in health care reform
46 minutes ago ago from MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics
Home Diaries Breaking Blue E-Wire 2008 Fundamental flaw in health care reform by Ravi Verma , Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 05:02:38 PM EST Well, it appears that health care "reform" is taking a few last gasps, and what emerges from Congress will be a watered down bill that meets with Sen. Lieberman's requirements while achieving essentially nothing. And I say... Good!! What was being proposed, in all it's public-options and ...
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19 hours ago ago from The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog
Liberal Democratic Senators appear to be sliding down a slippery slope, but one that will likely move health care reform to a conference committee. In the beginning was a robust public option: a government-run health care program to compete with private carriers that would pay doctors, hospitals and other providers a small percentage above Medicare’s reimbursement levels (which for many services are below those medical providers’ actual ...
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10 hours ago ago from The Interim - Canada's Pro-life, Pro-Family Newspaper Online
That's the headline on a Politico story . We should certainly hope it's true, but the health care issue is a zombie that will come back to life. The Democrats need it to hammer Republicans as uncaring right-wing zealots. The question for Democrats and policy wonks will be whether future health care reform proposals, perhaps even as soon as mid 2010, will be as sweeping or more incremental. I've written here before that pro-lifers should ...
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Republicans are trying another delaying tactic on health care reform: Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score t he entire bill . Read more here: Midday Open Thread
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10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
There are certain cliches that can get really really irritating. It's a condition called "Platitudinous Baditudinous Attitudinous" and it flares up each and every time someone says "We shouldn't make the perfect the enemy of the good". Some sort of ridicule is in order, like maybe a "Kick me" sign. We usually hear it these days from those trying to gut health care reform, leaving an almost empty shell. Offender also include or Democratic ...
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Without health care reform, premiums are expected to escalate dramatically in the upcoming years, pricing many Americans out of the market and into the ranks of the uninsured. There is also a rampant misconception that health insurance is stable and reliable, which is easily disproven by multitudes of coverage and treatment denials. Reform is just as essential for the sake of the insured as for the uninsured. Objectives of Health Care ...
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With Senate Dems furiously scrambling to arrive at a compromise health care bill, progressives have reached a point where most fear a health care bill more than they initially hoped for it. For politicians with reputations to manicure, a health care bill, any health care bill, at any cost, may be better than nothing. For the people of the Unites States, killing the bill would be better than a disease care reform, which from the way things ...
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3 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
Even as Senate Democratic Leaders huddled with White House advisors over the best way to retain maverick U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's, I-Connecticut, critical 'Number 60' vote, there was reason to believe that one key provision of health care reform already has sufficient Senate support: closing the 'doughnut hole' -- or annual gap in Medicare Part D prescription coverage. Currently, Medicare pays for the first $2,700 in drug coverage in a ...
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Anyone who watched Face The Nation on Sunday morning knew what was going down on health care reform in the Senate this week. It's one of the reasons many of us tune in during the early morning hours to check on what's happening with Bob Schieffer or David Gregory or George Stephanopoulos. Yep, it's not always scintillating at that hour, but it is good journalism with bagels without all the fanfare of Anderson Cooper or Larry King on evening ...
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