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Mercury News editorial: California making health care progress	3.9.2010	San Jose Mercury News: Editorials
Twenty-two states are suing the federal government hoping to overturn President Barack Obama's health care reforms.
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Vail Daily letter: You heard it here first	3.9.2010	Vail Colorado: Columnists
Two policy positions promoted by the tea party-driven GOP leading up to the November midterms are to privatize Social Security and to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher system. While we ponder how our grandchildren are going to shoulder a huge national debt, we can add retirement and health care to the list of future generations' threats to quality of life. Whenever the Republicans gain control of the legislative process, we will become no country for old people. No doubt, Social Security and Medicare are in deep trouble. Various solutions have been proposed over the years that would have alleviated, if not resolved these problems, but many consecutive Congresses kept kicking the can down the road. Just one more reason why there will ...
Utah shuns money for health insurance ombudsman	2.9.2010	Salt Lake Tribune
By kirsten stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Sep 1, 2010 10:26PM MDT Joanne Jackson followed all the rules, obtaining approval from her insurance company for kidney surgery in March 2009. So she was surprised shortly after the surgery to learn that Altius wouldn’t pay up. Altius explained the hospital had “miscoded” the $7,000 outpatient procedure as inpatient care. Her doctor said the mistake was the insurer’s doing. Neither party fixed the problem, despite repeated pleas from Jackson. “I felt really lost. I didn’t know who to turn to,” said the 62-year-old West... ...
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AFSCME’s Big, Brazen Attack	2.9.2010	FactCheck
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees is spending more than $1.5 million on ads that attack Republican congressional candidates in Michigan and Nevada. The big ad buy from the labor union also comes with some grandiose ...
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4 Things Dems Can Do to Head Off Total Disaster in the Midterms	1.9.2010	AlterNet
This post first appeared on Open Left. This has been a pretty weird political cycle, and I’m starting to wonder whether it is the strangest ever. There have certainly been cycles that have been more dramatic- such as the 1968 cycle of assassinations and a powerful incumbent being taken out by a quirky [...] ...
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Bill gives economic relief to most Americans, small businesses	1.9.2010	Post-Bulletin: Local Opinion
I believe health reform will help American businesses and workers in three primary ways: ensuring small businesses can afford health care for their employees, making certain workers can take home a greater share of their wages, and promoting entrepreneurship.
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Boots to dissolve pension scheme	1.9.2010	BBC: Business
The drug company Alliance Boots is dissolving one of its two final-salary pension schemes to 'ensure long-term security'.
'New India Assurance' in talks with corporate hospitals for package (Cached)	1.9.2010	New Kerala: World News

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California's safety-net health insurance premiums rise	1.9.2010	LA Times: Business
California's safety-net health insurance premiums rise
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W(h)ither Insurers?	31.8.2010	The Health Care Blog
By PAUL LEVY The talk around the country among health insurance companies is that their insurance business is dying. What is happening? First, the consolidations in other industries, resulting in large, multistate corporations, already mean that many companies self insure...
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Calif. bill targets health insurance premium hikes	31.8.2010	SFGate: Business & Technology
Calif. bill targets health insurance premium hikes
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Can the Democrats' Ground Game Overcome GOP Fervor?	31.8.2010	Truthout.com
On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to "restore honor" to America, the Democratic Party set itself the ambitious goal of knocking on 400,000 doors to start rallying disenchanted Obama supporters to vote in November. It's not clear yet whether they came anywhere near that outreach goal, but, ironically, there are early signs that some of the most engaged but disappointed progressive constituencies read ...
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The Accidental Socialists	31.8.2010	The Health Care Blog
By DAVID DRANOVE Over the next few years, the U.S. healthcare system will be in the hands of academics from Cambridge, Massachusetts. New CMS Czar Donald Berwick was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Joe Newhouse, who has...
Insurance and Genes	30.8.2010	The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias
Here’s a long Brad DeLong post spelling out some features of the American health insurance system that makes it difficult for us to fully realize the promise of advancing understanding of genetics. I think the issue can actually be put quite plainly. Virtually everyone suffers from some medical problems over the course of a lifetime, [...]
The Laugher Curve	30.8.2010	American Spectator
The Laugher Curve
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Patients in clinical trials to get care covered	26.8.2010	MSNBC
Patients in clinical trials to get care covered
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Obama jobs death toll watch: More health care layoffs	26.8.2010	Michelle Malkin
I said yesterday in my Beltway Chainsaw Massacre column that the GOP needs to track the Obama jobs death toll and tell the victims’ stories far and wide. But there’s no need to wait for the GOP. I’ll keep doing it right here. The first story of the day comes from the Fort Worth Star [...]
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Plan requires 80% of premium dollars be spent on medical costs	26.8.2010	Chicago Tribune: Business
Plan requires 80% of premium dollars be spent on medical costs
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Editorial: 'This is not a bill.' Oh, really?	26.8.2010	Chicago Tribune: Opinion
Editorial: 'This is not a bill.' Oh, really?
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New Medicare rule means more than 3M seniors may have to switch drug plans next year	26.8.2010	Chicago Tribune: Nation
New Medicare rule means more than 3M seniors may have to switch drug plans next year
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