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Health Insurance At 'Good Prices' Coming To Calif. Exchange	24.5.2013	NPR News
It's the first disclosure of prices in the nation's most populous state for individual health insurance that complies with the Affordable Care Act, and the menu of affordable options surprised some consumer advocates and analysts who had been expecting premiums to be much higher.
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How The Political Fight Over Medicaid Will Widen The Gulf Between Our Healthiest And Sickest States	21.5.2013	Think Progres
How The Political Fight Over Medicaid Will Widen The Gulf Between Our Healthiest And Sickest States
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Congressman Promises To Give Up Government Health Insurance After Voting To Repeal Obamacare	20.5.2013	Think Progres
Congressman Promises To Give Up Government Health Insurance After Voting To Repeal Obamacare
Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities	19.5.2013	LA Times: Nation
Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
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Minnesota House approves $11.3 billion health and human services bill	19.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
The Minnesota House voted Friday night, May 17, to pass a health and human services bill that accounts for nearly one-third of the state's general fund -- a big step in finishing budget work before the Legislature adjourns Monday.
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This week in the world of progressive state blogs: No epidurals in Alabama, expanding Medicaid	18.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Each Saturday, this feature links and excerpts commentary and reporting from a dozen progressive state blogs in the past seven days around the nation. The idea is not only to spotlight specific issues but to give readers who may not know their state has a progressive blog or two a place to become regularly informed about doings in their back yard. Just as states with progressive lawmakers and activists have themselves initiated innovative programs over a wide range of issues, state-based progressive blogs have helped provide us with a point of view and inside information we don't get from the traditional media. Those blogs deserve a larger audience. Let me know via comments or Kosmail if you have a favorite you think I should know about. Standard disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary does not necessarily indicate my agreement or endorsement of its contents. [O]ur beloved state Supreme Court has brought pregnancy and childbirth back to what they think God meant it to be—drug free. No ...
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Minnesota House to take up $11.3 billion health and human services bill	18.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
A compromise health and human services bill being debated Friday, May 17, in the House would help nursing homes and spare hospitals from a surcharge while taking a bite out of HMOs.
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After Obamacare	16.5.2013	American Spectator
Deep in the bowels of Washington’s regulatory agencies, and overshadowed by the raft of recent scandals, Obamacare is falling apart. Key provisions of the health law have either been stalled in implementation or tied up in the courts. Out of money, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is begging health industry executives for funding. Many Senate Democrats are now expressing doubts that the law can work. Meanwhile, outside Washington, Obamacare is palpably failing. Proponents of the law claimed it would bend the cost curve; instead insurance premiums are through the roof. Enrollment in the ballyhooed insurance exchanges has been pitifully low. Restaurants and shops are switching full-time employees to part-time to avoid massive health insurance costs. Obamacare, as conservatives always suspected, is doomed to fail. But after it does, what does the government do? The schools of thought can be roughly divided into four camps. Single-Payer Health Care Liberals have been in love with this idea ...
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Time for a nuclear phase-out? (Cached)	9.5.2013	Le Monde Diplomatique
Since Ernest Rutherford, the ‘father of nuclear physics', first split the atom in 1917, there has been a rush of human intelligence dedicated to unlocking the secrets of atomic power. These secrets would then require sophisticated regimes using clandestine methods to circumvent fears concerning the abuse or misuse of this technology. There has been widespread apprehension about rogue governments or agents using the power of the atom to bring the world to heel. Other nuclear-related dangers, (...) - Blog posts / Exclusive
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Scottish court rules minimum alcohol pricing is legal	3.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Scotch Whisky Association's challenge to 50p minimum price a unit is dismissed A judge has ruled that Scottish government plans to set a minimum price for alcoholic drinks are legal, in a case that will be seen as a significant victory for health campaigners but will spark an appeal by the drinks industry. Lord Doherty on Friday rejected the case brought by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) , one of the UK's most powerful drinks industry bodies, which argued that Scottish ministers did not have the legal powers to fix a minimum price for all wines, beers and spirits sold in Scotland. Backed by the medical profession, the Scottish government wants to set a minimum price of alcohol at 50p a unit , pushing the basic price of whisky to £14 a bottle and wine to at least £4.69, to help it tackle the serious and persistent culture of alcohol abuse in some parts of the country. The judicial review ruling in the court of session, Scotland's supreme civil court, is a heavy blow for the ...
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In case you wonder why some Dems cling to austerity	30.4.2013	Daily Kos
A couple waits in line free medical treatment organized by non-profit group Remote Area Medical at the Coliseum in Oakland. I have a "feeling" that they don't give a fuck about more austerity. Some Democrats, however, argue that party faithful are willing to give Obama space to tackle the deficit as he heads into the final years of his term — even if it means proposing some cuts to entitlement programs as part of a grand bargain. “My feeling is that most voters want there to be a budget agreement,” said Pete Brodnitz, a Democratic pollster. “Most people think something needs to be done to make Medicare and Social Security sustainable.” Because, of course, there is no data that would find that Democrats want entitlement cuts, or give a rat's ass about any grand bargain. Voters might want a budget agreement, but one that gets rid of this bullshit sequester. And that shit about making "Medicare and Social Security sustainable"? I wish our own people would quit using Pete Peterson language to ...
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Boston highlights healthcare's lost promise: it's charity now, policy later	25.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Charitable donations have been rolling in fast for Boston victims – but wouldn't better healthcare policies help them more? It's a little more than a week since the bombing of the Boston Marathon, and the charitable donations are rolling in fast. "Our hearts are broken, we are outraged, and we are looking for connection and meaning," says Richard Audsley, a former United Way official who has worked with fundraising efforts to assist victims of everything from the Columbine to the Aurora shootings. "The easiest way for us to respond is to reach for our checkbook and make a donation." This is true for the rich among us as well as the poor. The money piles up fast in a wave of sympathy. It's already visible in Boston. The One Fund for Boston , set up by Boston mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick within a day of the attack, will be distributing more than $20m under the guidance of former 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund manager Kenneth Feinberg. Numerous friends and ...
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Wonkbook: Ready for Obamacare Rashomon?	25.4.2013	Ezra Klein
Wonkbook: Ready for Obamacare Rashomon?
US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home	24.4.2013	MSNBC
US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home
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REPORT: Hundreds Of Immigrants Are Being Deported From Their Hospital Beds	23.4.2013	Think Progres
REPORT: Hundreds Of Immigrants Are Being Deported From Their Hospital Beds
US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home	23.4.2013	AP National
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico....
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Minnesota House tackles $11B health spending bill (w/ live video)	23.4.2013	Twincities.com: News
The Minnesota House was poised to vote Monday, April 22, on a budget bill that would tap hospital and HMO funds to slow the growth in spending on health and human services programs.
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The shocking events that everyone saw coming (except Obama)	11.4.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Look up "cat food" in the index. Release a budget with cuts to Social Security. The base pushes back: Um, we're Democrats. We don't cut Social Security! President Barack Obama gets defensive : But it's the Republicans' idea! Except that the Republicans didn't include Social Security cuts in their crazy draconian budget. Why? Because only a moron would step on that third rail. Re-read step #1. Republicans begin 2014 campaign, charging that Democrats want to cut Social Security. If there's any silver lining in this debacle, it's that it'll allow congressional Democrats the opportunity to distance themselves from this bumbling White House. Unfortunately, they have to distance themselves from the party's leader, never a fun place for a politician to be. See 2006. And 2010. What's craziest about this whole fiasco is how shellshocked the White House appears about it. It's as if they expected to be greeted with rose petals for "making the tough choices" or whatever bullshit ...
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A massive suck	8.4.2013	Daily Kos
America's new retirement plan The last president who left office at 27 percent proposed privatizing two percent of Social Security and was immediately trashed. Not even cutting it, just privatizing it. But here we have it. Not only a Democratic president, but just proposing a straight-up cut. To current beneficiaries at that. Truly, good people, a line has been crossed. Because if this president is willing to go after Social Security, the one federal program that is solvent, then there is truly nothing that is sacrosanct in terms of government that benefits ordinary people. Excepting, of course, a massive giveaway to the health insurance industry as government now acts as their chief salesperson. That will be preserved ... at least until the next Republican president. Which is probably now coming sooner than we think. So if you are, say, a GenX'r who is probably looking at zero retirement savings now that you've been through the 401(k) scam, guess what, my friend? You have nobody, and ...
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Competing Visions: A Response to John Goodman	5.4.2013	Health Affairs Blog
In his post “Why don’t Republicans Have a Vision for Health Reform” (April 2, 2013) John Goodman offers interesting comments on my earlier post “Reflections on The Federal Budget Resolutions” (March 21, 2013). I thank him for the comments. My post was focused strictly on the vision for U.S. health care that Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill now project through the Senate budget resolution and the House budget resolution. Goodman, on the other hand, builds from my post a bridge to the vision some Republicans – including Goodman himself – have in the past projected for U.S. health care. I can understand why Goodman used the well-known technique of the bridge, because he believes that Republicans currently do not have vision for health care. On this point, however, I beg to differ. There actually is a current Republican vision. It has been expressed through the House budget resolution.
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