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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

I am shocked, shocked to learn that senators hauling in huge money from the insurance industry want to scuttle plans for a public health insurance option in favor of cooperatives that would not provide any meaningful competition in the …

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Will Insurance Alone Cure What Ails Us?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

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By Sanjay Gupta President Obama says everyone should be required to have health insurance, much like car insurance. As Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, …

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Obama’s evolution on a public option in healthcare reform

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

On Sunday, Obama’s secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, told CNN that a government-run health insurance plan was “not the essential …

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Like Mets, fantasy teams need health insurance

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

By Michael Stobe, US Presswire By Ron Shandler, BaseballHQ.com When third baseman David Wright went on the disabled list, it added to the devastation of the …

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Liberals Push for Public Health Insurance Plan

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Liberals insist a new public insurance plan is essential but Republicans almost uniformly oppose it. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that …

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Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » Block Obama’s Abject Surrender to …

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Never much of a fighter against abusive corporate power, Barack Obama is making it increasingly clear that right from his start as President, he wanted health insurance reform that received the approval of the giant drug and health …

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Christy Hardin Smith » Soylent Greening My Way To Health Insurance

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Florida established its Community Health Care Purchasing Alliances in 1993, when nearly 3 million Floridians were without insurance. The alliances were intended to work, through brokers, with health care providers to obtain coverage for …

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Dem wants to eliminate private …

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Video: Dem wants to eliminate private health insurance altogether.

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Mexico City offers free health insurance to tourists | Gadling.com

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Any tourists who stay in one of Mexico City’s hotels will receive free health insurance. Under the plan, tourists are covered for not only treatment of the H1N1 virus, but also for any other disease or accident they suffer from while …

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Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Debunking the myths: Health …

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

This explainer may help clear the confusion and debunk the myths. QUESTION: Who has health care insurance? 85% of Americans have health insurance – that’s 5 out of every 6 people. Where do the insured people get their insurance? …

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