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16 hours ago ago from The Dysplastic Brain
Dear Senator LeMieux, This statement from your recent letter disappoints me. "I have talked with Floridians from Pensacola to Miami and without exception, people are concerned about this bill's proposals to raise taxes, increase health insurance premiums, and cut access to quality care. Citizens tell me they want Congress to scrap this proposal and start over. I agree. We cannot afford the government we have, much less the government this ...
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19 hours ago ago from NCSU News :: NC State News and Information
As the national discussion of health care focuses on costs, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that it might be more accurate to think of health care spending as an investment that can spur economic growth. The study also shows that government projections of health care costs and financing may be unduly pessimistic. “Health care spending should be viewed as an investment in future capital, contributing to a productive ...
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The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom’s nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments needs rethinking, a team of bioethicists and health policy experts says in a report out today. Delving into the question of expensive cancer drugs and who gets them, the team, led by Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., director ...
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19 hours ago ago from TalkLeft
Well, health care reform failed yet again. It's not clear what will be in the final bill that President Obama signs before the State of the Union, but it surely will not be health care, or even health insurance, reform. The question becomes will there be another crack at it in the foreseeable future? One way to make sure there is another crack at it would be to sunset the individual mandate portion of the bill (killing the mandates would be ...
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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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