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12 hours ago ago from The Nashville 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Nashville, TN
Unfortunately, you are a member of a 46 million member club (and growing) here in the United States. The pandemic is so bad that the President of the United States addressed the issue in his State of the Union address and the governors of several states are wrestling with the issue every day. The problems with the health care system in the Unites States are very well documented. In fact, the documentation with fill several libraries. ...
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17 hours ago ago from ACT TrendLine
Playing into the hands of the health care debate this year has been the idea that many bankruptcy and foreclosure problems have not hit families because of the housing bubble, the recession or the volatile job market; the financial woes, for many folks, have been brought on by the cost of health care. For reference, see this story from the New York Times . Implications: News stories like this, or the idea that many elected officials are ...
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17 hours ago ago from Winds of Change.NET
Joe and I are obviously both reading the WSJ this week... I've been watching the health-care debate with depressed fascination. It's fascinating because this is our government in action, and because I believe that we need to make significant changes to our healthcare system - both for health and for economic reasons. And I'm depressed because what we're being offered is just such a bad deal. It's a bad deal for a large variety of reasons, ...
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17 hours ago ago from My Insurance Policy
According to the most recent Census Bureau survey results, 45. 8 million Americans do not have health insurance! Of those, 60% of people have full time jobs and 3. 5 million of those people earn more than $75,000 per year. Many people who do not have access to group health insurance plans, such as the self employed, are taking their chances without insurance because they fear the high cost of personal health insurance plan costs. While ...
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Ezra Klein : [I]f I could construct a system in which insurers spent 90 percent of every premium dollar on medical care, never discriminated against another sick applicant, began exerting real pressure for providers to bring down costs, vastly simplified their billing systems, made it easier to compare plans and access consumer ratings, and generally worked more like companies in a competitive market rather than companies in a ...
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7 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The following narrative is based largely on a series of emails I received from my dear friend Prof. Frank Harrison, III. Since the time this piece was written, Frank has also undergone a successful coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and is slowly but surely recovering. My best efforts at getting this piece published as a commentary in a variety of different journals met with no success. Consequently, I thought I'd put it up on the ...
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4 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Health care helping prop up medical office space LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The health care sector is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal market for office space. While the recession has left entire floors barren in many high-rise office buildings, demand for space in buildings near hospitals is competitive and that has propped up rents and kept vacancies in check. Doctors and other medical tenants have weathered the economic ...
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1 hour, 39 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
In my view, the bills still in play are still worth passing - even given their obvious weaknesses. Why? Because this entire health care reform episode has been not an exercise in policy analysis, but rather a lesson in politics. The tipoff came right at the start because the plans being offered depended on competition among private insurers to achieve the goals of reform. That was a weak strategy to begin with because insurers have only 3 ...
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger In search of the elusive, filibuster-proof 60th vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eviscerated the Senate's health care reform bill on Tuesday. Potential GOP swing voter Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) confirmed that Reid promised to kill both the public option and the expanded Medicare buy-in, according to Brian Beutler of Talking Points Memo. Snowe didn't pledge to support the bill, of ...
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5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
If I wanted Joe Lieberman to write health care reform, I would have voted for John McCain. Somewhere in my mind, I thought that. But Jane Hamsher wrote it and that single phrase says it all. Due to the rules of the Senate and the political strategies of Rahm Emmanuel, Joe Lieberman is having the time of his life. It is time to admit that if we play by Joe's rules, health reform is dead. When we are reduced to Evan Bayh (!) saying lets ...
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