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Health Insurers Push the Limit on Fees
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15.3.2010 |
ConsortiumNews.com |
| As Tea Partiers battle health-care reform, major insurers are jacking up rates and slashing coverage, notes Don Monkerud. March 10, 2010 |
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How Big Business Dupes the Masses
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15.3.2010 |
ConsortiumNews.com |
| The Chamber of Commerce is rallying Americans behind the interests of Big Business, writes Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. March 12, 2010 |
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Does the Insurance Industry Back Health Reform?
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15.3.2010 |
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| I was on a short break last week where I actually took time off. But here's the column that appeared last Wednesday in The Fiscal Times :
The nation's health insurers held their annual policy forum Tuesday at Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. I felt like I was attending chapel at the Alamo.
Several thousand people, many from labor unions, were demonstrating noisily outside. They called for a citizen's arrest of the industry's chief executives, who were safely ensconced in their executive suites hundreds if not thousands of miles away. Inside, a few hundred of the industry's leading policy wonks, lobbyists and communications officials heard multiple sermons on the benefits of health care reform.
Karen Ignagni, the chief executive officer of ... |
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Obama heads to Ohio looking for health care votes
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15.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Latest |
| Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days. |
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Obama Continues All-Out, Final Health Reform Push
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15.3.2010 |
WCCO: National |
| Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days. |
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House's Democratic vote-counter still hunting for votes on Obama's health care overhaul
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15.3.2010 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| House's Democratic vote-counter still hunting for votes on Obama's health care overhaul |
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Millions Being Spent to Sway Democrats on Health Care Bill
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15.3.2010 |
NY Times: Business |
Ferocious advertising takes aim at about 40 House Democrats whose votes will help determine the fate of the health care bill.
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Feeling Down Down Under
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15.3.2010 |
Daily Kos |
| Between large kangaroos and small wallabies there is a critter of intermediate scale known as a wallaroo. There are several species of wallaroo, but I have to admit that I was completely unaware of their existence until I was standing in a field at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, surrounded by dozens, if not hundreds, of the the waist-high 'roos. At first glance, Lone Pine could seem like a somewhat shabby little zoo. It has none of the spectacular enclosures found at the the best known American zoos. What it does have is several hundred native Australian animals, all of which appear to be healthy, and most of which have plenty of room to roam. It also has the audacity to let people and animals mingle. You can stroll through several acres of ... |
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Evolution
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15.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| Perfect, meet good. You two play nice now.
If only.
The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party has a reputation to uphold. During the darker days of the Bush Administration, it was the Democratic Wing of Howard Dean that stood up to the outrages, the excesses, and the likely crimes, both overt and covert, perpetrated by the previous residents of the White House and Foggy Bottom. In those days, no stance of opposition could have been too strong. The extreme and reckless path of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress that did its bidding was gradually shifting the Overton Window of political acceptability further and further to the right--or more accurately said, to positions that were, and continue to be, anti-democratic and ... |
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Official: Democrats short on health care votes -- for now
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15.3.2010 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| Washington » The House's chief Democratic head-counter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects. |
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Health care bill heads for make-or-break week
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15.3.2010 |
MSNBC |
| The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects. ... |
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Dem House vote-counter lacks health care votes now
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14.3.2010 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Dem House vote-counter lacks health care votes now |
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House's Democratic vote-counter still hunting for votes on Obama's health care overhaul
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14.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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When Patients Own the System
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14.3.2010 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| by Donna Smith The national legislative healthcare fix that may be
passed
by the 111th Congress and then signed by President Obama will
do little
to relieve the stresses felt by most patients in this country. The
steady
decline most of us have seen in the kind of quality medical services we
need is
not likely to be mitigated. Insurance companies will grow ever stronger
and more deeply ensconced, and the patient voice will fade more quickly
from
prominence than it has in recent years. read more |
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Caddell, Schoen: Stop the march of folly on health reform, and turn back toward the people
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14.3.2010 |
Twincities.com: Opinion |
| In 'The March of Folly,' Barbara Tuchman asked, 'Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?' Her assessment of self-deception — 'acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts' — captures the conditions that are gripping President Obama and the Democratic Party leadership as they renew their efforts to enact health-care reform. |
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For insurers, health care debate is a prescription for uncertainty
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14.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Business |
| The fortunes of UnitedHealth Group and other insurers are tied to the twists and turns of health reform. |
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The Best Way Forward
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14.3.2010 |
The New Republic - The Treatment Feed |
| Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and a Special Correspondent for The Treatment.
More in sorrow than in anger, Washington Times editorialists are concerned that President Obama doesn't do enough to control costs . The Times particularly chides the President for delaying the proposed "Cadillac tax" on costly insurance plans.
One original cost-control measure was to impose a tax on high-quality insurance, dubbed Cadillac plans…. The idea was that this would free up resources and possibly even force medical providers to cut prices to attract more customers. But after striking a deal with unions, Mr. Obama decided to delay the tax for eight years - until ... |
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Split among abortion opponents widens as Catholic hospitals publicly support health care bill
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14.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Business |
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Economic View: Managed Care: Get Used to It
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14.3.2010 |
NY Times: Business |
Like it or not, more cost control looks likely to flourish in any health plan, Tyler Cowen says.
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LaHood: GOP: Support health care reform
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14.3.2010 |
Chicago Tribune: Opinion |
| LaHood: GOP: Support health care reform |
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