Daily Health Care News - 7/6/09
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in News Clips, Tell Us Your Story
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NEWS
In Maine, Two Sides on Health Care Step Up Competition for Senators’ Votes - New York Times
The rally outside Senator Olympia J. Snowe’s district office here last week was small but heartfelt: a handful of locals describing health insurance nightmares and calling for full-blown change, fast.
A look at health care plans in Congress - Associated Press
A look at health care legislation taking shape in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate as President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the system, cover nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and reduce costs. Many of the details are still being negotiated and any final health care bill would have to meld proposals from the House and Senate.
Gov't plan would offer cut-rate medical premiums - Associated Press
What if a new health plan set up shop in your town offering coverage at a much lower price than other insurers?
Schumer promises public option in healthcare bill - The Hill
The healthcare reform bill that emerges from Congress this year will include a government-run public health insurance option, regardless of the bipartisan negotiations seeking a compromise in the Senate, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday.
Senate’s Health Timeline May Slip - Roll Call
Senate Democratic leaders’ hopes of approving health care reform before adjourning for the August recess appear all but dead, with the prospect of meeting President Barack Obama’s demand for a bill on his desk by Oct. 15 looking increasingly difficult.
Medicare’s Mixed Legacy - New York Times
Should the government get in the health insurance business?
OPINION
HELP Is on the Way - Paul Krugman
The Congressional Budget Office has looked at the future of American health insurance, and it works.
Why Do We Need Health Care Reform? Don't Ask George Will - PR Watch
One of the things I hope to do with my blog is to call out misleading statements and statistics, outright lies and illogical assertions by opponents of meaningful health care reform—and to rat out the front groups that insurers and other special interests are funding to kill reform or, failing that, shape it to their benefit.
IF YOU TELL “WE THE PEOPLE” THAT ALL USA CITIZENS NEED AND DESERVE A HEALTH CARE CARD LIKE THE ONE IN THE POCKET OF OUR LEGISLATORS, THEN YOU WILL OBTAIN THE SUPPORT OF THE MASSES!
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The one thing most needed by ALL in this country is “QUALITY HEALTH CARE”; i.e. the card that we tax payers have provided to Government Employees! Please do not try to Pawn –off a “Hocus-Pocus” Health Care System on “We the People”. Please listen to Representatives John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich, and Lynn Woolsey about Health Care, for they are indeed working every day for those who elected them, as is the “Congressional Progressive Caucus”!
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INSURANCE COMPANY HEALTH CARE IS DRIVING THE USA INTO INSOLVENCY!
ALL US CITIZENS DESERVE A CARD JUST LIKE THE ONE IN PRESIDENT OBAMA’S POCKET, A SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM! PAID FOR BY “WE THE PEOPLE”, WITH FEDERAL SALES TAX. THIS SYSTEM IS THE ONLY SYSTEM THAT IS CONTROLLABLE.
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The danger of a public option for Health Care Reform is that the Insurance Companies will dump all of the high risk members, who need Health Care the most, and have only healthy low risk Members. People in this Great Country of ours, the U.S.A., should all have a Health Care. People will be willing to pay the tax for the Quality that they would then get!
Israel has the best Health Care, and the lowest cost of their Health Care, for all of its Citizens? Does the Israeli Government just think a lot more of its Citizens, than the U.S. Government thinks of its Citizens? Why not send some of your Medical Experts to Israel and do an Official Report to Congress. Health Care Cost in the U.S. is completely out of control! In just a very few years (6 to 10) Health Care cost will be 20% of GNP!
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Everyone should have Health Care, just as we provide for our Government Legislators; it’s a Human Right and Responsibility! Who amongst us want unhealthy people, who do not have health care working in the fields harvesting our food, processing, preparing our food, working in our homes, hotels, and other places?
Unless we support the Progressive Democrats, the health care problem is going to get progressively worse, it will not go away on its own, the Insurance Companies will see to that, with a 9% increase on January 1, 2010.
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If the Insurance Companies were completely out of the Health Care Business, I would support a Federal Sales Tax to cover Health Care, and if all Health Care were then taken out of the Federal Budget this would pay off the National Debt PDQ!
Typical liberal bs. Your stupid comments are so predictable of the liberal lies that are being rammed down Americans throats. You ask what the Republicans have proposed for health care reform? You simply don't listen because they have proposed sensible and economical reforms; the liberals just don't want anything that won't allow the government to completely take over every single American's lives and completely destroy this country.
Good luck you sad group of crazy left-wing nuts; if you think you'll get away with this just go ahead and try and get this liberal pack of bs passed. You're going to need all the luck you can get because you idiots mercifully won't have your jobs in 2010, thank God.
Let's see we've had Republican rule for the last 8 years and what was sensible,or economical about sinking tons of money into 2 wars with no exit strategies?If this is such a "sad group" why are you going through the trouble of leaving a comment(ignorant or otherwise)?Now, what's nuttier defending insurance companies who've raised premiums 4 times higher than the rate of wage increases, or defending the people that are now in debt due to nothing more than getting sick?!You thanked God, but what happened to what you've done to the least of Mine…?Do you think God would side with the big money CEO's of these insurance companies,or the "least" of society that can't afford the care after paying insurance premiums and being told they were dropped anway!?I guess you still think Bush and his cronies "kept us safe",as if they took office September 12th 2001,9-11 counts against their record,idiot!