The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation will spend $1.055 trillion, largely to expand health insurance, which would be more than …
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Archive for October 29th, 2009
Hospitals will push insurance for babies
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Nine hospitals will begin checking whether babies born in their maternity wards have health insurance and, if not, offer parents the option to cover the …
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Waxman: No Gov’t Health Insurance for Illegals
Thursday, October 29th, 2009“Should illegal immigrants be allowed to buy health insurance from a private insurance company?” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) says he expects …
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Seniors on front line of health-care battle
Thursday, October 29th, 2009That is why America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group, is spending millions to run these advertisements in 10 states, including Pennsylvania, …
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Lack of insurance may have figured in nearly 17000 childhood …
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to nearly 17000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States in the span of less than two decades, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. …
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Matthew Yglesias » Would Health Reform “All But Eliminate” Private …
Thursday, October 29th, 2009To be clear, I think that all but eliminating private health insurance would be a good idea. That said, I’d be really interested to know what Mike Tanner’s justification is for saying of the House bill “regardless of how much lipstick …
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FDL Action » Blue Dogs Win Huge Victory For The Health Insurance …
Thursday, October 29th, 2009In a huge victory for the health insurance industry, hospitals, and PhRMA, the Blue Dogs managed to stop the robust public option tied to modified Medicare rates. The Blue Dog Coalition, who must call themselves “fiscal conservatives” …
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Lack of insurance factors into children’s deaths - Wellness - TIME.com
Thursday, October 29th, 2009If you haven’t had your life-isn’t-fair moment today, here it is: a lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to the deaths of nearly 17000 hospitalized US.
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“Yes We Can” Win Health Insurance Reform
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Lieberman claims that “to put a government-created, government-run insurance company on top of [health care reform] is just too much, even with a state …
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‘Special Report’ Panel on Health Care and Recent Violence in Middle East
Thursday, October 29th, 2009If it still has a created government-run health insurance proposal in it toward the end, I will do what I really don’t want to do, but I’ll do it because I …
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