Heaven Or Health|Take Care Of Your Health or………….
Oct
28
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Washington Times House health-care reform bill to include public option Washington Post House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a health-care reform bill on Thursday that includes a government insurance option and a historic expansion of Medicaid, although sticking points in the legislation involving abortion and ... House health compromise has 'public option' with a catch Los Angeles Times House Democrats Set Deal on Government Option Wall Street Journal Pelosi Backs Off Having Set Rates for Pub
Oct
27
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HAHAHA! This is RICH : Politico: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill. Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has said the Senate bill will. HAHAHAHA! Oh, w
Oct
24
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Yet, we’re supposed to believe their promises for health care reform? Readers may recall that the same White House bunch promising a “deficit neutral” health care plan promised that if we passed the $787 billion stimulus ($one trillion after debt cost) that we would save millions of American jobs. They even put out a chart which showed their projections state by state on the jobs they expected to be created. Earlier this week, I posted a report from the House Ways and Means Committee R
Oct
24
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Women, mothers, families and health care reform - clarksvilleonline.com 10/24/2009 Our broken health care system that is. That’s right — it’s not working for many women and their families. In many states, insurance companies can still discriminate on the basis of gender — and not just on costs. In some states, maternity care is not covered because pregnancy can be seen as a “pre-existing condition.” It’s even legal in some states to deny a woman coverage because she’s been a victim of d
Oct
20
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Yesterday I noted a rather bogus attack on health care reform in one editorial based upon not including a fix to the Medicare payment formula in the costs of health care reform. As I described in the previous post, this is a long standing accounting trick used since the Republicans were in office and the costs of fixing this are unrelated to any added costs to the budget of health care reform. Jonathan Chait discussed this later in the day. He notes that conservatives are picking this up as
