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Should Insurance Companies Pay For Preventive Care?

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Health Insurance, Health Care, Prevention, Lifestyle, Preventive Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Tara Stiles, Meditation, Wellness, Living News

It's all where your priorities are. You have to want it for yourself. A regular practice puts you back in touch with you. You don't need all the stuff to be happy.

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Insured Patient Sued By Connecticut Hospital

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Impact, 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. Patricia Gill has insuran...

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Senate Health Care Bill Offers Less Immediate Help Than House Version

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

If the Senate has its way with health insurance reform, Sandra Ingram, a 63-year-old cancer patient undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments in Io...

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Cartoon: Iceberg Dead Ahead!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Abortion, Congress, Abortion Rights, Anti-Abortion, Democrates, Obama Health Care, Denver, Barack Obama, Sentate, House, White House, Insurance, Abortion Laws, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Denver News

I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.

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Read The Abortion Compromise In Harry Reid's Senate Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Women's Rights, Health Care Reform Bill, Public Option, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Read Senate Abortion Health Bill, Read Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Abortion Language, Senate Health Care Reform Bill, Pro-Choice, Politics News

The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...

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For Some Uninsured, Health Bill Benefits Would Kick In Right Away

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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

A common complaint about the health insurance reform legislation moving through Congress is that the uninsured won't see any help until 2013. While i...

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I Am a Scorpion. It Is My Nature.

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Politicians, Frogs, Scorpions, Politics News

The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...

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Insurance Runs Out For 12-Year-Old Boy Without Arm

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosthetic Limbs, Benjamin French, For Profit Health Care, Prosthetic Arms, Health Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Insurance Coverage, Lifetime Maximum Benefit, Unemployment, Uninsured, Health Care Reform, Ben French, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan, Prosthesis, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News

Benjamin French was born with his right arm missing below the elbow. In his 12 years, he has been fitted with seven prostheses. His most recent replac...

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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Candlelight Vigil for Health Care Reform at Senator Lieberman's Front Door

Mary Ann West | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stamford, Health Care, Dan Malloy, Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Public Option, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

People continue to die because of senators like Lieberman, who have determined that their convictions are more important than their constituents' lives. Go figure.

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Point 5: A Double Mandate For Health Works For Europe

George Halvorson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

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

How do countries who use private health plans achieve universal coverage? They use a "double mandate: Everyone must buy. Everyone must sell.

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Caregiver Crunch: How To Find Affordable Care

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Home Care, Alzheimers, Ken Dychtwald, Ltc, Long Term Care, Nursing Homes, Caregiver, Health Insurance, Health Care, Living News

Living longer means more years to learn, work, play and enjoy time with those we love. However, there's also the increased possibility of health problems along the way.

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Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs

New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...

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House Health Care Bill Reportedly Would Sharply Reduce Benefits For Senior Citizens

The Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Medicare Spending, Senior Care, Health Insurance, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care Reform, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid, Medicare, Medicaid, Nancy Pelosia Health Care Bill, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health Care, Richard S. Foster, Politics News

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul ...

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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

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

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 11.16.2009 | Impact

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

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

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

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

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

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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