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SENATE VOTES TO MOVE HEALTH CARE REFORM FORWARD: COULD HEALTH CARE REFORM BE ACHIEVED ON CHRISTMAS EVE?
2 hours ago ago from OpenPen
Minutes ago Democrats won a major victory in their push for health care reform early. At 5:15 a.m. , this Monday morning, the Senate voted to end debate on a package of controversial revisions to a sweeping $871 billion bill. The cloture vote passed 60-40 by party lines. The vote keeps on track a Christmas eve final vote on Health Care Reform. The Senate went into recess until noon today, shorly after the vote. Senators were worn out but ...
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21 hours ago ago from David Coates: Answering Back
The Story A lot of water has passed under the health care reform bridge since Answering Back went to press in March 2009. The spine of developments since then has been Congressional – the long and hard-fought struggle to turn the Obama commitment to health care reform into actual legislation. That struggle was initially anchored in the House of Representatives, tied to a timetable that tried to complete the exercise before the summer ...
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16 hours ago ago from Short Term Medical Insurance Jersey City
In 1986, Congress passed the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, COBRA, as a means for customary employees, spouses, and dependent children to continue the group health insurance previously provided by an employer. The coverage was paid completely by the insured. In many cases, the cost of the coverage was prohibitively high, especially if the premiums were being paid for out of unemployment benefits. In light of the rising ...
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15 hours ago ago from Derrick Z. Jackson's Blog
HEALTH CARE reform is now so bizarre that the Republicans are the ones screaming that the Democrats’ proposals are terrible because they will not insure enough Americans. Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky said, “The authors of this bill will try to argue that since their bill leads to ‘near universal coverage,’ most Americans won’t be affected by this tax. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. . . . Twenty-four million people ...
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1 hour, 59 minutes ago ago from Reformation Faith Today
Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post sums it up, So Obama's plan amounts to this: partial coverage of the uninsured; modest improvements (possibly) in their health; sizable budgetary costs worsening a bleak outlook; significant, unpredictable changes in insurance markets; weak spending control. This is a bad bargain. Health benefits are overstated, long-term economic costs understated. [...]
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Employee Mobility, Options Would Increase Under Health Care Reform Bill
7 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 ...
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9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
By Judy Patrick and Karla Rodriguez The stripped healthcare "reform" bill fails to leverage the power of those who have the greatest potential to determine and maintain good health for all of us: women. We all suffer when women--this nation's primary healthcare decision-makers and consumers--do not have what they need to be healthy. Most people agree that the healthcare system in the United States is in desperate need of reform. Too few ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Overwhelmed by the health debate? Can't keep track of the SHOP and the MACPAC? Take a deep breath. It really isn't all that complicated. With Senate about to pass its version of health reform, Congress is beginning its stretch run toward final approval. When a consensus bill appears in January, just break it down into bite-sized chunks, ask yourself how each element measures against your own goals for health reform, and finally whether all ...
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10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
A short time ago, I wrote a series of posts about the relative cost of a variety of health care services in the United States as compared to other industrialized western nations. The results, you might recall, indicated that prices in the U.S. are far and away higher than they are in the other countries considered, which more than likely explains why per capita health care spending in the U.S. is roughly double that of the next closest ...
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7 hours ago ago from BBC
Healthcare reform is President Obama's main domestic priority US President Barack Obama has hailed the Senate's healthcare vote as a big victory for the American people . Senators voted in the early hours of Monday to end debate on a compromise bill, putting the legislation on course to face a final vote on Christmas Eve. President Obama has set health reform as a key plank of his first term. The legislation, which aims to cover 31 ...
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