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2009 U.S. Health Care Reform Bill: A First Step
19 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
As expected, the U.S. Senate passed the 2009 health care reform bill Thursday along party lines, 60-39. All 58 Democrats and two Independents voted for it; 39 Republicans voted against it. U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, did not vote. The health care overhaul bill is the most important social policy change in the United States since the establishment of Medicare in 1965, and it ranks third behind that act, and the creation of Social ...
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12 hours ago ago from Health N You
I hope wonderful Thanksgiving. Now that's over, Congress session, Senate tackling health care reform issue. One discussed reforming health insurance allowing people buy insurance plans states able less expensive plans. I'm supposed work, here's why. One reason cost plans lower states others mandated services health plan required cover. The plan required cover, higher cost coverage. For example, California 56 required services plan ...
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16 hours ago ago from Insure4USA Blog - Hot Informations from Insurance
(PRNewswire) - The U.S. Senate bill's historic expansion of health care coverage cedes control of a much greater portion of the health care system to the medical and insurance industries. This sweeping legislative act creates a responsibility for federal and state governments to monitor and police these industries and fix failures as they occur. For example: * While the legislation requires every American to buy coverage under threat of ...
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23 hours ago ago from Love My Country, Loathe My Government
Even though yesterday's post was supposed to cover the major special deals/bribes that Senator Reid doled out in order to buy the Senate votes he needed to pass this horrible health care reform bill, a day later more details of Reid's deal making have come to light (as reported in an online Wall Street journal article today): A Florida Democratic Senator got a special $3.5 billion grant for that state's Medicare Advantage program, other ...
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22 hours ago ago from San Diego News Online - San Diego County - Travel - Hotels - Sports
By Gary Rotto, Guest Contributor Now that the Senate has voted to approve Health Care Reform, the debate will truly begin on what health care reform means to the average American, and particularly to the uninsured and low income households. All the heated discussions in Congress will move quickly to the world of interpretation and implementation. How do these thousands of pages truly shake out? What will come first? How issues will ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
There are many lessons to learn from the health care war that has raged over the past year. We'll get to some of them below. But here's the bottom line: Pass the bill, then improve it. The health care bill that will emerge from the House-Senate conference committee won't be what most progressives had hoped for, but it is a major, historic turning point in American social reform legislation, comparable to the Social Security Act, the ...
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Had Ted Kennedy been alive today, either Ben Nelson would not have been able to undermine women's health care equities and move his anti-abortion beliefs into national consequence or Joe Lieberman would not have been able to get included in the health care bill nearly whatever the big insurers wanted -- no matter how much these positions conflicted with earlier Lieberman positions. Barack Obama's victory ahead in signing major health care ...
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