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3 hours ago ago from A Thing With Words
Apologies to non-Americans. One of the things I see over and over again in the health care debate is the framing of the issue as about rights. "Do people have a right to health care?" etc. Folks, this is not what it's about. Universal health care coverage is a public good , like the highway system or the military or the National Academy of Science. People who live in countries with universal health care coverage are just plain healthier, ...
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8 hours ago ago from S E N A T U S
In advance of the February 25 th White House health care summit, Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) has written a letter to President Obama outlining his own health reform proposal and discussing the possibility of bipartisanship. An excerpt: The current state of our nation’s health care system, as well as growing concern over the reform measures that have passed the House and Senate, warrant a reset of our stalled health care debate so we ...
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23 hours ago ago from Health Insurance
Image : http://www.flickr.com President Clinton did not and now President Bush is not on health care reform in a way that also gave slightly different from the HMO and managed care industry, the large sums for the two campaigns they have to keep quiet different. Thus, these special interests of maintaining the status quo of health insurance for non-profit entities have taken place over the health system in the U.S.. Every day about ...
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20 hours ago ago from Pacific Progressive
President’s Budget Provides Backdrop to Health Care Reform By Karen Davenport , Ellen-Marie Whelan This article was published by the Center for American Progress. The national debate on health care reform is an important backdrop to the president’s fiscal year 2011 budget request, which was submitted to Congress earlier this week. Reforming our nation’s health care system to modernize health care delivery, improve equity and ...
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23 hours ago ago from The Fundamental Reform of our Health Care system
12 The Fundamental Reform of our Health Care system and Providing Everybody the Basic Health Care Coverage by Dr. Georsen September 2009, New York I. ...
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Dr. Behzad Mohit: Health Care: Peoples' Call For Action
18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Health care in this country is in dire straits. I've written two books suggesting fixes for our health care system. The system I proposed involves the creation of an independent people-funded, people-managed insurance coop. All Americans who are now covered by Medicare and Medicaid would still be covered. The government would pay for their policies. The coop would be nonprofit, thus patients wouldn't suffer because of the conflicts of ...
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9 hours ago ago from NPR
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13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
With their metaphors as mixed as their messages, some Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are scrambling to pass health care reform this week, while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, NV) says, "We're not on health reform now," and Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus (D, MT) says it can wait until summer. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs disputes the assessment of Senator Mary Landrieu (D, LA) that health care reform "is ...
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1 hour, 47 minutes ago ago from Politics Daily
During a surprise visit to the White House briefing room on Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama noted that "the public has soured on the process" that has produced separate-but-close Senate and House versions of health care reform legislation. And this souring, he said, "actually contaminates how [Americans] view the substance of the bills." Consequently, the president added, the bipartisan health care reform summit the White House is ...
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7 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Many commenters poo-pooed my earlier posts about Anthem Blue Cross's intention to dramatically lower reimbursement rates for Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy. Some said, "Physical Therapy? Who cares?" Others, of course, mocked my model in which the federal government might take any action to merely oversee or - gasp! - regulate the insurance industry (or any industry, for that matter; there are many who seem ...
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