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Health care for children should be a priority
17 hours ago ago from Batman Legos
We all have dreams this holiday season. Dreams of the family gathered around a sparkling tree. Children delighted with brightly wrapped presents. But wouldn't it be magical to wake up Christmas morning knowing that no child in America will have to suffer because their family can't afford to take them to the doctor or get their antibiotics or immunizations? Yes, dolls, toy trucks and video games are nice, but health care is ...
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22 hours ago ago from Vote Kids
Earlier this morning, the United States Senate voted 60-39 to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform bill that Congress has been crafting through most of 2009. Vote Kids urges Senators to support this important and historic piece of legislation when they vote on it later this week. Specifically for children, the bill will: Extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program and the adoption tax ...
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3 hours ago ago from Electrical Blog
Most parents understand that health insurance coverage for their children is one of the aspects of children’s wellbeing. The normal responsibility of a parent is making sure that your children’s health is well taken care of. Good health affects the children’s ability to develop properly and perform well not just in school, but also in life. Regular check-ups and normal childhood illnesses are part of growing up. But, fortunately we all know ...
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17 hours ago ago from newsandwx.com
By ROBERT PEAR Published: December 24, 2009 WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama . President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., spoke at the White House after Senate voted on the health care bill on Thursday. ...
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16 hours ago ago from forstepress.com
No-one said life ever has to be fair but, as parents, you quickly discover the world is not set up to make things easy for you. There are challenges at every turn. Of course, all the healthcare needs can be put on the back burner if you or your partner have a family plan provided by your employers. Now all you have to do is read the small print to see what coverage is provided for children while they are at elementary school or high school ...
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Democrats see GOP hypocrisy in health care debate
28 minutes ago ago from U.S. News
Democrats see GOP hypocrisy in health care debate WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican senators attacking the cost of a Democratic health care bill showed far different concerns six years ago, when they approved a major Medicare expansion that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits. The inconsistency - or hypocrisy, as some call it - has irked Democrats, who claim that their plan will pay for itself with higher taxes and ...
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12 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
Senate Democrats approved landmark legislation just after sunrise Christmas Eve that would transform the nation's health-care system by requiring people without insurance to obtain coverage and protecting those who have it from the most unpopular private insurance practices. This Story Vice President Biden presided over the 60 to 39 party-line vote, described as a historic milestone by senators ...
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11 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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22 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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21 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Jacob Goldstein The Senate just passed its version of the health-care bill by a vote of 60-39. Over the next month or so, the Senate and House will try to work out the differences between the bills. Here's a quick overview of some of the key effects of the Senate bill, based on estimates from CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation for the years 2010-2019. $395 billion in federal spending to expand the number of people covered by ...
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