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- More is Less - This American Life / NPR (podcast, 1 hour) - In Netherlands, Insurers Compete Over Quality of Care - NewsHour / PBS (video)- Going Out of Business? - FactCheck (News Analysis) A Texas-Sized Health Care Failure - New York Times (Op
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:03:05 -0400
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Republicans reacted wtih outrage last week after Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) offered a blistering attack on the nearly-invisible Republican healthcare proposals: "The Republican health care plan is this: Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quick
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:20:25 -0400
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The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Americans must have coverage.
Determined to get as many people as possible covered, lawmakers first proposed fines of as
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:56:34 -0400
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 | As soon as swine flu vaccinations start next month, some people getting them will drop dead of heart attacks or strokes, some children will have seizures and some pregnant women will miscarry.
But those events will not necessarily have anything to d |
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:50:10 -0400
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Fourteen major health insurers and their industry association flexed their political muscle to the tune of $2.5 million per month – an increase of 25 percent over previous years – in the first half of 2009 to influence the health care reform deba
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:47:31 -0400
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 | Capping months of struggle, Democrats pushed health care legislation atop President Barack Obama's agenda to the brink of a major Senate advance early Friday after last-minute changes to ease the impact on working-class families. The most far-reachin |
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:44:20 -0400
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 | Conservatives were quick to insist that the near-riot — the first of many town-hall mobs that would dominate the headlines in August — was completely spontaneous. The protesters didn't show up "because of some organized group," Rick Scott, the he |
Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:51:16 -0400
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 | I have a brain tumor. Doctors are ready to help me. But CIGNA has been blocking me from getting testing and treatment for two years, while almost doubling my premiums. Then, this week was the kicker. CIGNA's pharmacy called to say that the co-pay on |
Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:47:15 -0400
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 | When Frank Aprile severed his left thumb and index finger, he had just lost his job and his health insurance. The unfortunate accident would end up costing him much more.
Frank is a perfusionist, highly trained in operating heart and lung machines |
Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:41:06 -0400
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Wendell Potter, the former Cigna executive-turned-whistleblower, told a small group of reporters Monday that the Baucus health care plan is an “absolute gift” to the industry.
“The Baucus framework is just an absolute joke,” said Potter, Cig
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:54:59 -0400
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Potter, who was previously a vice president of communication at Cigna, also sharply criticized Democratic Senator Max Baucus' health care reform bill in a conversation with reporters Monday, calling the plan an "absolute gift to the industry."
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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:52:01 -0400
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 | President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation's health care system without adding "one dime" to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the deficit by bill |
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:12:47 -0400
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 | "Here are the details that every American needs to know about this plan," President Obama said at the beginning of his powerful health-care speech to Congress on Sept. 9. It was a sentence that many Americans had been waiting for — quite the oppos |
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:28 -0400
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Cesca's ananlysis of the failed and frightening Baucus proposal:
Predictably, the Baucus Plan is totally nightmarish. Naked on the subway while being accosted by prostitutes that resemble Chuck Grassley nightmarish. I've been writing about the terri
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:58:36 -0400
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According to recent polls ... get ready for this ... a majority of Americans believe the BS the conservatives have been feeding them.
The judgment is harsh in a new poll that finds Americans worried about the government taking over health insuranc |
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:48:32 -0400
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 | Yeah, it just keeps ketting better. Somehow showing up with machine guns proves that we, as Americans, have the constitutional right to not have health insurance.
A number of YouTube videos have shown a man carrying an AR-15 rifle to a pro-Obama hea |
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:35:40 -0400
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Hard to believe with all the good that come of health care for people that these lies are floating around ... oh wait, this is America.
So much for a slow news month. August feels like campaign season, with claims on health care coming at us daily.
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:59:14 -0400
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 | The White House may have to go for the morality of health insurance in order to convince the wing nuts that it's a good idea.
The rethinking comes amid a struggle by the White House to clarify its view on a public insurance plan, which liberals see |
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:54:02 -0400
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 | Cao heard from a crowd that seemed overwhelmingly in favor of a major system overhaul, with several questioners explicitly advocating a public option and chiding Cao for his statements about abortion and his party's framing of the larger debate.
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:48:06 -0400
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 | Oh look, how grweat is this when County Commissioners are weilding signs with Swatikas.
A protest rally planned by anti-health care reform forces in Michigan's 7th Congressional District was upstaged by a pro-health care reform rally staged an hour |
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:39:02 -0400
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 | Yeah, some idiot at Investors Business Daily said:
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essenti |
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:40:53 -0400
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 | In response to Sarah Palin's idiotic statement about death panels -- which she put on her Facebook page.
"It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels," Murkowski, a Republican, |
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:02:49 -0400
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That's half of the $2.2 trillion the United States spends on health care each year, according to the most recent data from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.
What counts as waste? The report identified 16 different a
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:57:38 -0400
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 | Great Moyer interview with Wendell Potter, former CIGNA Insurance guy.
BILL MOYERS: So they want to reverse that. They don't want my premium to go for my health care, right?
WENDELL POTTER: Exactly right. They--
BILL MOYERS: Where does it go?
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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:20:20 -0400
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 | Before he died, her husband, an assistant professor of film at American University, paid his health insurance premiums with Blue Cross Blue Shield through the end of this month. Holliday says she can barely cover her rent with the roughly $2,000 a mo |
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:32:22 -0400
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 | "I got a letter the other day from a woman. She said, 'I don't want government-run health care. I don't want socialized medicine. And don't touch my Medicare.'"
Either these people have been so kerfluffled and enraged by the wingnutty "reparations" |
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:23:41 -0400
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 | The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.
In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined |
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:17:07 -0400
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 | A woman protesting Democratic plans for health care reform was captured holding up a sign of a Swastika, with the president's name below it, encircled and crossed out by a red line. The implication is that Obama is a Nazi... |
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:12:41 -0400
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