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Health Reform: Pro and Con
14 hours ago ago from NPR Blogs: Planet Money
Health Reform: Pro and Con 12:43 December 14, 2009 comments By Daniel Costello This morning, I listened to a podcast on current health reform proposals by Michael F. Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. You may or may not agree with Cannon, but I always like hearing different sides of an issue as complex as health reform and think he's worth a listen. Cannon's take is ...
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17 hours ago ago from Prevention Matters
Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman write in the Contra Costa Times about "unprecedented — yet uncontroversial — disease prevention initiatives whose inclusion has been lost in the rancorous debate over health care reform legislation working its way through Congress." Such initiatives provide federally funded security guards at dangerous neighborhood parks and federal grants to poor neighborhoods to build grocery stores or to keep school gyms ...
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14 hours ago ago from Faceless Bureaucrat
The New Yorker's Atul Gawande has an article on health care reform that includes praise for a USDA bureaucrat, Seaman Knapp, the father of the Extension Service. And praise for the hodge-podge of USDA programs to help farmers (in the 1890-1930 era): "What seemed like a hodgepodge eventually cohered into a whole. The government never took over agriculture, but the government didn’t leave it alone, either. It shaped a feedback loop of ...
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23 hours ago ago from BetterLiving
The nature of managed care health insurance plans increases the likelihood of a legitimate health insurance claim being denied. Take into the mind that managed care (health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations) exists for the purpose of controlling costs for the health insurance companies. A lot of different health care procedures, durable medical equipment, surgeries and drugs particularly much more expensive ones ...
Related contentHealth Reform News for December 14, 2009
14 hours ago ago from Health Care Repair
Health Care Reform News December 14, 2009 TOP STORIES Two Senators Doubt Medicare Compromise ; The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2009 Sens. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D., Neb.) on Sunday voiced strong doubts about the Medicare proposal, which would allow individuals as young as 55 to buy into the program. Related: Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill, The New York Times Lieberman and ...
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Andrew Sargus Klein: No Health Care Reform for Old Men
11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The push toward health care reform entered into a new phase this week. Senate Democrats struck an as-yet undefined deal on the public option, essentially dissolving it with mandated non-profit insurance options and the lowering of the age for Medicare eligibility from 65 to 55. Though the Congressional Budget Office has yet to score it, liberals such as Howard Dean are nodding their approval. Indeed, early liberal debate over the scope of ...
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18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The health reform debate is inherently political, but it is also about policy, and there is a vital distinction between the two. Policy is often the end-result of politics, but politics for politics' sake happens all the time, too. That causes a bit of a problem, because--especially with our dominant two-party system--everything seems to get turned into a black or white, heads or tails, us versus them mentality. Many times it is as though one ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Our government is missing the mark; prevention and education are essential to drive down costs of health care. As is common knowledge: "many costly and disabling conditions - cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases - are linked with common preventable risk factors (World Health Organization)." Tired of asking myself, friends and loved ones the rhetorical question: Why isn't prevention a key point of the ...
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