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17 hours ago ago from Tainted Saints
Investors are seeing the Senate's version of health care reform as a massive public subsidy for insurance companies and as a result, are sending the sector's stock prices shooting up, up, up. Stripped of a government-run insurance plan, the bill would give tens of millions of Americans no option but to start paying hefty premiums to private companies. The rise in stock prices has been particularly striking in the period since Sen. Joe ...
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18 hours ago ago from Colorado Independent
Six of Senator Udall’s amendments made it into the health care bill that passed its first vote in the Senate last night—including two aimed at improving health care for rural residents . In a press release about the amendments, Udall compared passing the bill to skiing across Alaska, perhaps a comparison elicited by the snowstorm whitewashing the skies outside the Senate chambers. “The road to health care reform has been tough ...
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1 day ago ago from Christ Our Savior Lutheran Grace Notes
Investors are seeing the Senate's version of health care reform as a massive public subsidy for insurance companies -- and as a result, are sending the sector's stock prices shooting up, up, up. Stripped of a government-run insurance plan, the bill would give tens of millions of Americans no option but to start paying hefty premiums to private companies. The rise in stock prices has been particularly striking in the period since Sen. Joe ...
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17 hours ago ago from Publicola
Here's some more fodder for ECB's (awesome) editorializing against the health care bill and for putting the word compromise in scare quotes. (It's not a compromise ECB says when one group loses.) The PI.com reports on a study from George Washington University which finds that insurance providers may simply stop selling policies that cover abortion thanks to the senate version of health care reform that made it past a GOP filibuster last ...
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19 hours ago ago from ARRA News Service
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Employee Mobility, Options Would Increase Under Health Care Reform Bill
22 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
It's been overlooked -- it's received scant coverage by the popular press -- but it's worth repeating: one benefit of the health care reform legislation will be enhanced employee mobility. Don't misunderstand: a bill that prohibits discrimination by insurance companies due to medical condition/history, provides substantial subsidies for those who don't have health insurance from their employer, and that also offers much-needed tax breaks ...
Related contentHow Nebraska's Insurance Companies Stand To Profit From Ben Nelson's Compromises In Health Care Bill
13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
LINCOLN, Neb. Nebraska never seen as a key player with special needs in the health care debate stands to reap millions of dollars worth of financial goodies should the Senate version of the health care bill get final approval. Not only did Sen. Ben Nelson help cut a deal that covers the state's Medicare expansion cost of $100 million over 10 years all other states will have to help bear their own costs insurance companies in Nebraska will ...
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21 hours ago ago from U.S. News
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