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Public Health Care Option Vote In
11 hours ago ago from Public Health Insurance Option
Now the Public Health Care Option vote is finally in! The Bill is Passed!!!! the yea is 220 votes and the nays is 215! Just 5 votes differential . Give your opinion and voice as what does this means Does it really matter big time? and will this really hold for the long haul? this public option health care might not be good in the long run as the government may be cash strapped to maintain and sustain such a huge government spending. ...
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11 hours ago ago from Public Health Insurance Option
Most of the White house aides to President Obama is downplaying the public option and their leader is no longer demanding a government run health care system. With all the opposition form the Senate from both the Republican and the Democrats, it seems that Obama has mellowed down and will not like to see a government run health care system. These war of words from the within the democratic party has echoed through the halls of power! ...
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15 hours ago ago from THE INTERNET POST
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 [...]
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22 hours ago ago from Oakland North
This is the second of two articles on health care reform. Yesterday, Lauren Callahan examined whether the Healthy San Francisco Program could work in Oakland. The health care reform bill the House of Representatives approved last month (HR 3962) adds up to 2,014 pages, most of them containing a lot of Roman numerals and subclauses in parentheses. As the Senate has debated its version of a health care bill, we recently printed out the ...
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58 minutes ago ago from Engage Her: Activating Women and MultiCultural Communities
The latest news from the Senate regarding their Health care reform bill is disappointing. Due to the opposition of a few key Senators, specifically Sen. Joe Lieberman key provisions of Healthcare reform that citizens have been asking for i.e. inclusion of a public option for citizens to be able to review and sign up for and the ability for younger citizens beginning at age 55 to apply for Medicaid have been stripped from the bill. The Public ...
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Did Obama Campaign On The Public Option? Yes But Not Entirely
5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
President Barack Obama, in an interview with The Washington Post , said on Tuesday that in the two years leading up to his election he "didn't campaign on the public option" for insurance coverage. Could that possibly be true? A plan for government-run insurance has been the focal point of the soon-to-be-concluded health care debate; the catalyst of white-hot partisan warfare; and the provision that progressive and conservatives alike have ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I agree with with those who note the danger of progressives attacking individual mandates in the health care bill, and how such attacks could be construed to be a criticism of all compulsory policies. That's the conservative attack on mandates, of course, just like it is the conservative attack on taxes paid into social programs - namely, that anything the government requires individuals to do is unacceptable (tellingly, conservatives rarely ...
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23 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
Before they entered an indefinite hiatus, the band Matchbox Twenty released the song "How Far We've Come" which posed that title in the form of a joint exploration-style question: "Let's see how far we've come." Today, after being asked by a friend to weigh in on the pros and cons of their just-reached deal, I'm asking that question of the Senate on the issue of health reform. They've been working on it for a while now, compromising things ...
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