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An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs

Robert Reich | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Reich, Health Care Costs, Health, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Health Care, Politics News

Nobody promised you this would be easy, Harry. But, hell, why are you there, anyway? Your responsibility is to do the right thing by the American people and bring down future health-care costs.

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How To Save Billions in Health Costs Starting Now

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Angioplasty, Elliott S. Fisher, Gerry O'Connor, Health Care Costs, Katie Couric, Health Care, CBS News, Vertebroplasty, Health Care Reform, Cbs, Dartmouth, Barack Obama, Living News

President Obama has stressed the importance of "bending the cost curve." The fastest way to do this is shockingly simple: carefully explain to patients the known risks and benefits of procedures.

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New Bill Would Extend COBRA Subsidy: Representative Joe Sestak

bloomberg.com | Margaret Collins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Cobra, Congress, Unemployment, Health Care Costs, Economy, Jobs, Health Care, Cobra-Legislation, Recession, Joe Sestak, Business News

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Congress should extend a health-care subsidy that helps the unemployed before it ends for some recipients this month, ...

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Point 3: We Need an Orbitz for Health

George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Coverage, Health Care Exchanges, Health Care Costs, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Kaiser Permanente, Halvorson, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Living News

Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.

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Tort Reform Does Not Reduce Health Care Costs--Never Has, Never Will

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Tort Reform, Health Care Costs, Defensive Medicine, Public Option, Health Care, Politics News

Anyone opposed to robust health care reform because it fails to include tort reform needs to examine their premise. We should be more concerned with patient safety.

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Dems on Health Bill: Oops! We Forgot to Cut Costs

New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Price Tag, Health Care Bill Cost, Health Care Vote, Health Care Cost, Health Care Price, Health Care, Healthcare Bill, Healthcare, Health Care Costs, Politics News

As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts wh...

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Scott Hawkins: $29,000 For 5 Minutes In The ER

McClatchy | Bobby Caina Calvan | Sacramento Bee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Care, Scott Hawkins, Emmergency Room, California State University, Health Care Costs, Healthcare, Politics News

SACRAMENTO -- For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins....

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A Little Perspective on the Cost of Health Care Reform

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Defense Spending, Social Security, Medicare, Federal Budget Deficit, Health Care Costs, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

People are saying that health care reform is going to break the bank. No. Health care costs are what might bankrupt us. I am all in favor of reducing those, but railing against the cost of reform while ignoring all the rest is willful ignorance.

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The Public Option in Congress Is Now a Sham. Who Cares If Lieberman Kills It?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Reid Public Option, Public Option, Health Care Costs, Health, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care Public Option, House Health Care Bill, Obama Public Option, Obama Health Care Reform, Jacob Hacker, Medicare, Democrats, Politics News

With or without a fraudulent public option, millions of Americans who will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine will see their premiums skyrocket.

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Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Anti-Trust, Competition, John Conyers, Public Option, Health Care Costs, Cost-Effectiveness, President Obama, Diana-Degette, Diana DeGette, Health Care, Denver News

Potentially egregious anti-trust violations in the insurance industry should not be permitted, and the government should be given the power to protect the public from harmful behavior that drives up prices.

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Ambulances Charging Extra For Obese Patients

AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Fat, Obesity, Mordibly Obese, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Amublances, Ken Keller, Business News

TOPEKA, Kan. — The memory still bothers Ken Keller: A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 ...

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The Public Option Is Not Where You Draw the Line

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Subsidies, Cbo, Single Payer, Public Option, Health Care Costs, Politics News

Many are rallying around the public option like it's a singular opportunity to save the world. It's not; it's not even close.

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Wilford Brimley Is the Problem With Health Care

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Diabetes, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Wilford Brimley, Health, Politics News

The ad encapsulates everything that's wrong the health care system: consumers are insulated from the costs of their care, providers are motivated to make a profit, and Wilford Brimley looks like a walrus.

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Shuffling the Deck Chairs on Reform

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bipartisanship, Subsidies, Health Care Costs, Olympia Snowe, Politics News

I was wrong to think that no Republican would vote for reform. I was wrong to think that Baucus had been wasting his time. I was wrong to assume that there was no point to negotiating or giving up anything.

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Why the Savings From Health Care Reform Are Underappreciated

Sima Gandhi | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Business News

The American people have two choices: Implement health care reform now, when the future benefits outweigh the current costs, or wait as rising health care costs slowly drain our bank accounts.

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Louis Sullivan Backs Health Bill: We Need To Come Together

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Bill, Baucus Health Bill, Health Care Bill, Senate Finance Health Bill, Health Care Debate, Louis Sullivan, Health Care Reform, Sullivan Health Bill, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance Reform, Sullivan Baucus Bill, Politics News

"We need to come together towards the middle and this is what the Baucus bill represents," said the former Secretary of the Department of Health and H...

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Americans Dying Too Soon: U.S. Behind Other Nations In Preventable Deaths

Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Health Insurance Costs, Health Care Reform, u.s. Preventable Deaths, Conrad Preventable Deaths, Cost of Health Care, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care Preventable Deaths, u.s. Health Care System, Politics News

As Congress presses forward with landmark legislation to revamp the nation's health-care system, lawmakers are grappling with a troubling question: A...

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Health Care Pizza

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Politics, Pizza, Economics, Health Policy, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Politics News

Solomon really nailed it on the head when he wrote "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." One of the "old" things under the sun, is health care costs.

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Intolerable Cruelty: Our Sick Children's Indebted Future

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Federal Bailouts, Gas, Federal Budget Deficit, Children, Oil, Diabetes, Obesity, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Food Prices, Federal Budget, Allergies, Living News

In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children." What have we done to ours?

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Gut-Check Time For Congress Over Health Care Reform

Rich Robinson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, President Obama, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Companies, Health Care Costs, Congress Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

Societies are judged by how they treat the least in their ranks. This is a gut-check for our country, a huge test whether corporate America runs this nation, or We the People do.

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Health Care Reform: Drug Companies Are The Big Winners

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Baucus Bill, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Costs, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Prescription Drugs, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

As Congress gets closer to final healthcare-reform legislation, the central question remains murky: Who will foot the bill? Figures contained in th...

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Health Reform: Hold the Mayo

D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Politics, Research, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Health, Mayo Clinic, Politics News

the relationship between low Medicare spending and the above average health outcomes seen at Mayo may simply be confounded by the nature of the patient population, which is healthier Read more at: http://editorial.huffingtonpost.com/tmp/individual-entry-archive86.html

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You Owe Me 30 Cents for Dinner: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish on Health Care

Adam Lioz | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Krugman, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Cost of Health Care, Health Care Reform, Politics News

We're considering leaving millions of Americans without affordable insurance and missing our best chance to force the insurance companies to clean up their acts over 0.6% of what we'll spend anyway?

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Health Care Reform: Prove It or Lose it

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care Costs, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Obama appears to be taking a Massachusetts-style approach to reform: expand coverage first and then, after costs spiral out of control, take on the difficult job of ratcheting down health care costs.

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