Health Care Reform

Durbin: The Trigger Proposal Has Not Been Abandoned

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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The man tasked with counting the votes for Democrats in the Senate told reporters on Friday that the caucus was still considering health care reform t...

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Medicare 'Doughnut Hole': Seniors Skeptical Of Health Care Reform Persuaded By Plan's Promise To Close Prescription Coverage Gap

Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

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MIAMI (MATT SEDENSKY -- AP) -- Lawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut ho...

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A Health Care Reality Check

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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Members of Congress should not have access to taxpayer-funded health care when they are actively denying these very people quality care of their own.

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The Price of Prescription Drugs Around the World

D. Brad Wright | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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We've come to the end of the health care costs world tour and conclude today with a look at the price of three prescription drugs: Plavix, Nexium, and...

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Krugman: Health Care Reform Or Else

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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Health care reform hangs in the balance. Its fate rests with a handful of "centrist" senators -- senators who claim to be mainly worried about whether...

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Talks On Future Of Public Option In Health Care Bill Intensify In The Senate

thehill.com | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Senate Democrats from the liberal and centrist factions are engaged in increasingly urgent talks aimed at bridging the divide within the party over th...

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Congress Must Continue to Make Children a Priority

Judith S. Palfrey | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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Children's needs must be a priority as we approach the next debates in Congress. Not only is it our moral obligation as adults to speak up for children, who cannot speak up for themselves, but it is our civic duty.

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Limbaugh: Left Using Health Care Reform To Kill Off Elderly Like Mao And Stalin (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Rush Limbaugh got very excited on his show today because he believes he's finally divined the real reason that Democrats are trying to reform health c...

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The Price of Lab Tests Around the World

D. Brad Wright | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Sure, the high end U.S. prices still blow everyone out of the water for Pap smears, and beat all but Australia for the throat culture, but take a look at the low-end U.S. average for both tests. The U.S. prices actually look reasonable.

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A New Lesson from the Old "Tuskegee" Study

Susan Reverby | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Nearly forty years after the study ended, the name "Tuskegee" still evokes fears of the dangers of government involvement in medical care.

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Ed Schultz Spars With Sen. Barbara Boxer Over Senate Health Care Bill

Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

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The Ed Show's Ed Schultz let it all out Wednesday evening and expressed the frustration that many progressives feel about attempts by Democrats to wat...

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Poll: 60% Support Public Option

Reuters | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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The survey of 2,999 households by Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO)(TRI.N) shows a public skeptical about the cost, quality and accessibility of medical c...

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Sam Stein On The Ed Show: The Public Option Is Now 'Almost Unrecognizable'

Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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HuffPost political reporter Sam Stein joined an "Ed Show" panel alongside conservative radio show host Michael Medved to discuss the Democrats' wateri...

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A Day of Action!

Cecile Richards | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Representative Stupak was hoping to ban abortion with his backward amendment. Instead, he's rejuvenated the pro-women movement.

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Obama Poll Watch -- Scraping Fifty Percent

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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November wasn't a particularly good month for President Obama in the polls. Not disastrous by any means, but not very cheerful either. For the first time, Obama's numbers flirted with going below 50 percent.

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AARP Backs Democrats On Medicare Cuts In Senate Health Care Fight

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — With a Senate showdown looming, the politically potent AARP rode to the rescue of Democrats on Wednesday, supporting $460 billion i...

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A National Day of Action to Stop Stupak

Rebecca Sive | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

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Today I feel like I'm still 18, in the fall of 1968, gathering nickels, dimes and dollars for a friend to take the bus to Rapid City, South Dakota to get an (illegal) abortion.

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Health Care Reform Irony: Thousands Could Be Denied Low-Cost Coverage

Dr. Garrison Bliss | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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The need to repair our broken health care system doesn't mean that we should deny access to innovative health delivery models such as direct primary care medical homes.

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Tea Party Patriots Send Rubber Chickens To Senators: 'Enough Is Enough'

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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The Tea Party Patriots arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to deliver rubber chickens to Senators who voted for cloture on the chamber's health ...

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Epilepsy: Holding A Volcano

Lisa Guest | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

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He's had epilepsy for over fifteen years. He lost his license and his job fifteen years ago. Medicare says he's not "disabled enough."

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Did the Senate Forget to Discuss Health Care and Race?

Cliff Albright | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Research shows that when asked about the racial makeup of assistance programs, most people assume far higher percentages of people of color than is actually the case, and these perceptions impact political support.

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Congress Can Save Mr. Obama From Afghanistan

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Afghanistan is surely not Vietnam. It is worse. It is easily ten times more costly and much less popular both in the U.S. and in the country we occupy after eight years of war.

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Orszag Calls Senate Health Care Bill Biggest Cost-Container Ever Considered

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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The health care bill before the Senate would cut costs and reform health-care delivery more than any piece of legislation in American history, White H...

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Senate Health-Care Bill On Breast Feeding

WSJ | Jacob Goldstein | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

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Here's a detail in the Senate health-care bill we hadn't noticed until now: Employers would be required to give nursing mothers "a reasonable break ti...

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Waffling Democrats' Health Care Hypocrisy

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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After years of feeding at the health insurance industry trough, it's no wonder these conservative Democratic senators oppose a public option plan to compete for consumers.

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