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Dems ease impact of health bill, big advance nears
20 hours ago ago from Economy News, Continent Economy
Source: AP WASHINGTON � Fearing a backlash, Democrats smoothed the impact of sweeping health care legislation on working-class families Thursday night and steered President Barack Obama"s top domestic priority toward a crucial Senate advance. The most far-reaching overhaul in decades aims to protect millions who have unreliable coverage or none at all. Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee attacked the bill as riddled with tax ...
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10 hours ago ago from Open Left
Conducted by Research 2000 for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America (DFA), the survey finds only 33 percent of likely voters favor a health care bill that does not include a public health insurance option and does not expand Medicare, but does require all Americans to get health insurance. Slightly more Democrats -- 37 percent -- favor the idea, while only 30 percent of Republicans and 31 percent of ...
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19 hours ago ago from Payday Resources Blog
An estimated 1.5 million workers who otherwise would have switched jobs or careers fail to do so every year because of fears about health insurance, lowering the quality of or even losing outright their current benefits. This trap of sorts is referred to as job lock, and in many ways is ammunition enough for meaningful health care reform (accessible, affordable). In fact, studies estimate that job mobility among the workforce is reduced by 26 ...
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1 day ago ago from Golden Aging
Most Americans concern they're going to want long-term care at some purpose when retirement, but only a small proportion are are doing something concerning it, per a survey conducted for the John Hancock Life Insurance Co.* It states that 85 percent of respondents worry concerning needing long-term care at some time in their future, a rise from eighty percent a decade ago. Long term care addresses a wide selection of long run care and ...
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43 minutes ago ago from CLENOUGH | Have You Had ENOUGH Cleveland?
Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care: One in five lacked insurance: Nearly one in five Americans lacked health insurance at one point since January 2008, a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed. That equates to 58.4 million of our fellow Americans. Perhaps more disturbingly, a whopping 11 percent of Americans went more than an entire year without health insurance. ...
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CDC: 1 in 5 Went Without Health Insurance at Some Point in Past Year
12 hours ago ago from FOX News
Watch Live STRATEGY ROOM CDC: 1 in 5 Went Without Health Insurance at Some Point in Past Year Friday, December 18, 2009 Print Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population or almost 60 million people went without health insurance at some point since January 2008, according to government estimates released this week. The analysis by the Centers for Disease Control ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The Washington Post : To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a year ago. Change came not only from President Obama, who narrowly won this swing state, but also from a millworker-turned-high school civics teacher who had no political experience but ran on a promise to bring a progressive everyman's sensibility to Congress. Fueled by ...
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