Health Care Reform

Page: << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 111 112 113 114 115 116 >>

Reform...at What Cost?

Susan Bevan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate Republicans, Moderates, Republican-Majority-for-Choice, Abortion Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Anti-Abortion, U.S. House of Representatives, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News

Like it or not, abortion is a legal medical procedure and a decision that has to be left to doctors and families. Why are women being singled out and denied coverage, even through private plans?

Read Post

What Spirituality Has To Do With The Health Care Debate

Paul DeBell | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Psychology, Faith, Health Care, Spirituality, Living News

Spirituality should be approached rationally, not solely through inspiration, emotion and blind faith. It's time to bring it into the 21st Century, and for irrationality that seeps into other crucial debates to be stymied.

Read Post

Joe Lieberman's Anti-Public Option Rationale Keeps Shifting

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Meet the Press, Joe Lieberman, Public Option, Politics News

This past Sunday, America was treated to the sight of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) rolling out yet another argument against why he will filibuster ...

Read Whole Story

Point 6: Connectivity Is Key To Care Improvement

George Halvorson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: European Healthcare, Personal Health, George Halvorson, Health Care Reform, Healhcare Legislation, Health Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Health, Living News

It is sad and ironic that an information-dependent profession is denied convenient access to needed information in an age when we connect other aspects of our infrastructure easily and often.

Read Post

Senate Sextet

Shawn Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Pivotal Politics, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Politics News

By my calculation, Senator Reid can count on 56 votes for the health care legislation as it now stands. Any attrition from this group would require Reid to reach across the aisle to recruit one or more moderate Republicans.

Read Post

Substance Over Symbolism

Mike Lux | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, 2009 Obama Administration, U.S. Senate, Public Option Trigger, Public Option, Senate Democrats, Politics News

Given the stubborn logjam between progressives and conservatives on the public option and other issues, here are six different scenarios for what might happen next.

Read Post

When Can A Public Option Not Be A Public Option?

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Roland Burris, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care, Politics News

There are proposals for opt-out, opt-in, and "triggered" public options. What are Americans to think or to do? Let's get back to basics.

Read Post

The Price of Hospital Stays Around the World

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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

Technology costs more in the United States. Physicians cost more in the United States. What about the charges of health care facilities? Today, we examine the cost of hospitalization to find more of the same.

Read Post

Bernie Sanders Pushes Back On Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lieberman, Public Option, Sherrod Brown, Senate Health Care Bill, Tom Carper, Health Care Reform, Mary Landrieu, Health Bill, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Roland Burris, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a...

Read Whole Story

While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To Charity

Blake Rutherford | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, National Association of Free Clinics, Health Care, Arkansas, Politics News

This weekend, thousands of Arkansans convened at the Statehouse Convention Center for a mass free health clinic, the first of its kind in Little Rock.

Read Post

Sealed With A Kiss: Dems Unite To Beat GOP Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, #Hcr, Health Care Bill, Senate Health Care Bill Vote, Arlen Specter, Landrieu, Robert Byrd, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, Reid, Senate Health Care Debate, Dems, Harry Reid, Senate, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Health Care Reform, Gop, Ben Nelson, Chris Dodd, Vickie Kennedy, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care, Roland Burris, John McCain, Republicans, Politics News

Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...

Read Whole Story

Senate Votes To Debate Health Care Reform Bill

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Senate, White House, Ted Kennedy, Senate Health Care Bill, Mary Landrieu, Health Care Reform, Obama, Health Bill, Democrats, Senate Bill, Health Care, Blanche Lincoln, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...

Read Whole Story

Senator Debbie Stabenow Tells Benjamin French's Story During Senate Debate

Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Benjamin French, Stabenow, Senate Debate, Arm, Prosth, Senate, #Hrc, Sen Stabenow, Health Care Reform, Ben French, Debbie Stabenow, Stabenow Health Care, Health Care Reform Debate, Health Care, Politics News

In the debate Saturday about whether to debate the Democratic health care reform bill in the Senate, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) capped her comment...

Read Whole Story

Health Care Rationing: Why the "R" Word is a Red Herring

N. E. Marsden | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Health Care, Health Care Rationing, Private Health Insurance, Health Care Protection, Death Squads, Health Care Reform, Health Care Public Option, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Politics News

it is ludicrous to imply that private insurance companies don't ration care by flat-out refusing procedures that people genuinely need or desperately want.

Read Post

Democrats Are United -- For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...

Read Whole Story

Reid Slams Broder: A Retiree Who 'Writes A Column Once In A While'

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Health Care Vote, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, David Broder, Reid Slams Broder, Reid, Politics News

Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...

Read Whole Story

Old Folks To Senate: Vote For Cloture Already

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Aarp, Politics News

In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), AARP CEO Addison Barry Rand backed the leader's health care bill and urged the chamber to v...

Read Whole Story

More Republican Lies and Deception Over Cancer Screening

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cervical Cancer, President Obama, Mammography, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Shakira, Breast Cancer Screenings, Preventive Service Task Force, Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Pap Smnear, George W Bush, Sen. Tom Coburn, Breat Cancer, Politics News

It's irresponsible for Republicans to label two new cancer-screening recommendations as partisan-based and illustrative of the sort of "rationing" they claim reform will bring.

Read Post

Senate Health Care Vote Saturday

AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Vote, Health Care Reform, Senate, Senate Health Care Vote, Health Care Debate, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ahead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday ni...

Read Whole Story

Left, Right & Center: Obama-Geithner Revolt, Sarah Palin, Health Care Update

Huff Radio | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Timothy Geithner, Obama Approval, Barack Obama Polls, Sarah Palin, Politics News

For the first time, Obama's approval ratings are below 50 percent and calls for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's resignation are growing louder.

Read Post

Bill Clinton Blasts Olbermann For Politicizing Health Care Event, Refuses To Go

Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Olbermann Politicizes Health Care Event, Clinton Olbermann, Olbermann Health Care Event, Clinton, Health Care Reform, Clinton Blasts Olbermann, Keith Olbermann, Olbermann, Health Care, Olbermann Health Care Reform, Politics News

On Friday, Bill Clinton decided not to attend a health care event organized by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann because Olbermann had "politicized" the even...

Read Whole Story

Another Look at Stupak-Pitts

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democrats Health Care Reform, Health Care Bill, Stupak Pro-Choice, Stupak-Pitts Amendment, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Pro-Choice, Politics News

Stupak amendment supporters should support a proposal that requires that at least one insurance policy on a state exchange include abortion coverage so long as another, identical policy does not include abortion coverage.

Read Post

Ron Wyden Wins Big Concession On Health Insurance Exchanges

The Hill | Jeffrey Young | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Insurance Exchanges, Reid Insurance Exchanges, Senate Health Care Vote, Ron Wyden, Ron Wyden Health Care, Wyden Insurance Exchanges, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Insurance Exchanges, Health Insurance Reform, Senate Health Care, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a long stride toward locking down the...

Read Whole Story

Stupak: Win Or Lose, We Need Culture Change

Aspen Baker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Salon.com, Culture Wars, Abortion Debate, Pro-Voice, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Pro-Life, Conflict Resolution, Daily Kos, Stupak Abortion, Politics News

We must recognize that we are a nation deep in conflict, and instead of trying to win with politics, we must work towards building peace. We need to change the conversation about abortion.

Read Post

Ben Nelson To Vote Yes Saturday: Two Dems Remain Uncommitted

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Nelson Cloture, Ben Nelson Health Care Reform, Ben Nelson, Health Care Reform Cloture, Politics News

And then there were two. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Friday for the first time that he will vote to allow the Democratic health care reform b...

Read Whole Story