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Health Care: Make An Offer On PriceDoc

Kari Henley | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Featured Contributor, Kari Henley, Priceline, Health Care Reform, Pricedoc, Health Insurance, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News
Kari Henley

A brand new company, PriceDoc, is hitting the national market, and is sure to transform everyday health care with the same momentum that brought us Google, Facebook or Priceline.

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Rights, Congress, Naral, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Hyde Amendment, Pelosi, Obama, Roe Wade, Choice, Planned Parenthood, House, Senate, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Reproductive Rights, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Anti-Choice, Medicine, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...

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Medicare Paid $47 Billion In Suspect Claims, According To HHS

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Health Care Bill, Elederly, Poverty, Bush, Dhhs, Health and Human Services, Obama, Cost, White House, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Old, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Poor, Hhs, Medicare Fraud Cost, Medicare, Medicare Fraud, Health Care, Home News

WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...

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Health Insurers Could Bypass Some Key Reforms

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Coverage, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, Senate Health Committee, Health Legislation, Politics News, Health Reform, Politics News

Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...

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If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion

Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Health Insurance, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Republicans, Politics News
Melinda Warner

Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.

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Hoping That The Rules of Health Insurance Change Soon

Gary Stein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Gary Stein, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Free Clinics, Impact News
Gary Stein

My family and I often had to make health care decisions based on finances. The results were disastrous: either our finances suffer or our health does. This scenario plays itself out everyday across our great nation and a change has to come.

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Tara Subkoff Battles Charity Over Brain Tumor Bills

Posted 11.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Health Care, Tara Subkoff Brain Tumor, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tara Subkoff, Health Insurance, Style News

After fashion designer Tara Subkoff was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor last summer, friends of the uninsured 36-year-old held a fundraiser sponso...

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Will Democrats Scuttle Healthcare Because Of Abortion?

Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Kim Stagliano, Health Insurance, Democrats, Healthcare, Republicans, Health Care, Living News
Kim Stagliano

I used to say I was politically pro-choice but personally pro-life, meaning I would never consider having an abortion. That was until I was faced with the choice of carrying a baby to term myself.

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When Washington DC Fails: A California Statewide Health Insurance Option

Richard Walden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare Costs, Rep.Bart Stupak, Health Insurance, Congress, Obama, Initiative, Sen.Joe Lieberman, Gov.Jerry Brown, Statewide Health Insurance, California Health Facilities Commission, Sen.CharlesGrassley, Health Care, Politics News
Richard Walden

Citizenship in this country should be a two-way street. We should all pay our fair share of taxes but in return should expect our medical needs met so we can contribute to our family and society.

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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
George Halvorson

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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Women, Poverty And Health: A Vicious Cycle

Irasema Garza | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Working Women, Health Care Reform, Poverty, Health Insurance, Women's Issues, Women, Working Mothers, Politics News
Irasema Garza

Just as poverty disproportionately impacts women, so too do the flaws in an out-dated health insurance system. Worse, these inequities fuel each other.

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, Gop, Social Justice, Communion, Catholic Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Lobbyists, Obama, American Catholics, Bishops, John Kerry, White House, Universal Health Care, Vatican, Health Care, Abortion, Church, Poverty, Public Option, Lobbying, Catholic, Democrats, House, Catholics, Religion, Senate, Catholic Church, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Christianity, Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Republicans, Politics News

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?

Marcia Angell, M.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marcia Angell, House Health Bill, Dennis Kucinich, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Dr. Marcia Angell, House Health Care Bill, Politics News
Marcia Angell, M.D.

The House Health bill just throws good money after the bad. And because costs will keep rising, there is now a danger that people will conclude reform is impossible, when in reality, we still haven't really tried.

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Dr. Brent James Could Be Health Care's Saving Grace

New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Debate, Brent James, Health Insurance, Idaho, Utah, Fee-for-Service Payment, Advanced Training Program, Health Care Reform, Salt Lake City, Doctors, Dr. Donald Berwick, Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. Mark McClellan, Living News

The health care debate of 2009 has had so many moving parts that it has sometimes seemed impossible to follow. The crisis behind the debate, though, i...

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24-Year-Old Given Months To Live Without Insurance

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: Drought, California Drought, Foreclosure Crisis, Uninsured, Joseph Riofrio, Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Bearing Witness 2.0, Health Insurance, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bearing Witness, Senior Community Service Employment Plan, Impact News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a ...

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The GOP Health Care Plan: A Cruel Joke

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Gop, Gop Health Care, GOP Health Care Plan, Republicans, Republicans Obama Health Care, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

Some had the audacity to hope that the Republicans would work with the President to solve health care. Now, it's clear they are putting insurance industry profits above the health of America's families.

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The Good News From Our Citizen Journalism Project

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.05.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Future of Journalism, Claims Denials, Rape, Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Citizen Journalism, Denial of Coverage, Health Care, Healthcare, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News
Adam Clark Estes

One of the big questions about the future of journalism is whether the Internet can foster a new alliance between professional reporters and interested citizens. We're seeing signs that the answer is yes.

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My $1,547 Hospital Bill For A Rash

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clinic, Emergency Care, Rash, Hospital Wait Times, Health Insurance, Private Practice, Wait Times, Emergency Room Wait, Health Care Bill, Health Care, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

At the end of August I had a rash. I was visiting a relative at Southampton Hospital on Long Island and decided to stop at the Emergency Room to have it checked out.

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Point 2: Care is Inconsistent and Too Often Unsafe

George Halvorson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health, Universal Healthcare, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Health Reform, Obama Health Care, Politics News
George Halvorson

For today, we need to recognize that we spend more money in America on health care than any other country by a factor of two or three -- and we are not getting the consistent, high-quality care we should be getting for all the money we are spending

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The Heath Insurance Dance

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Off Label Cancer Treatment, Los Angeles Times, Transplant, Liver Transplant, Cancer, Health Insurance, Health Care, Living News
Deborah Calla

Why -- when we are faced with the possibility of losing our life or the life of a loved one -- do we also have to fight with an insurance company which is there to take care of our medical needs in the first place?

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Health Insurance Companies Price Gouging the US Economy

Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Family, Price Gouging, Americans, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Policy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Crisis, Economy, Politics News
Damien Hoffman

At the current pace, on my 54th birthday I can look forward to spending over $1 million a year on healthcare (but my bank will be broken many years earlier).

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The Public Option

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Public Option, Health Care, Politics News
Michael J. O'Neil

The Post Office, as a public entity, has an objective: to provide an essential service to the public at the lowest possible cost. This public option looks pretty good.

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Gayle's Death: Lovelace Insurance Profit #1067678-00

Susan L. Travis | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Thanksgiving, Politics News
Susan L. Travis

Somehow in our search for reasonable health care, my only sibling was caught in a vortex of "policies and procedures" designed to minimize costs and avoid accountability.

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More Insurers Are Paying For Alternative Remedies

health.yahoo.com | Marilynn Marchione | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Natural Medicine, Health Insurance, Holistic Medicine, Insurance, Health Care, Alternative Medicine, Living News

Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used...

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