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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 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Thanksgiving, Lovelace Health Plan, Lovelace Health Insurance, Lovelace Health Insurance Albuquerque, Lovelace Albuquerque, 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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GOP Health Care Bill WON'T Prevent Insurance Companies From Denying Sick People

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...

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Nebraska Voters Favor Public Option, Want Ben Nelson To Back It

Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Public Option Polls, Public Option, Public Option Polling, Democracy for America, Filibuster, Omaha, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Poll, Public Option Statistics, Insurance Industry, Nelson, Lincoln, Research 2000, Rachel Maddow, Health Insurance, Sen. Nelson, Nebraska, Ben Nelson, Health Care, Politics News

If Ben Nelson decides to filibuster a Democratic health care bill that includes a public insurance option, he should expect to lose support among Nebr...

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Calling Out the House Progressive Caucus: Are You Men and Women, or Are You Mice?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Raul Grijalva, Lynn Woolsey, Public Option, Kucinich Amendment, Alan Grayson Health Care, Anthony Weiner Health Care, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Obama Health Care, Pelosi Health Care, Progressive Caucus, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Jan Schakowsky, Health, Health Care Reform, Democrats Public Option, Single Payer Healthcare, Pelosi Public Option, Health Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

If you break your pledge and vote for a health reform bill without this minimally robust version of the public option, you've ensured that even with a Democratic majority, all "reform" will be limited by your Blue Dog colleagues.

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Health Insurance Cheaper In The Suburbs

Chicago Sun-Times | SANDRA GUY | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Oak Park Health Care, Health Care Reform, Evanston Health Care, Chicago Health Care, Health Care, Health Insurance, Oak-Park-Illinois, Evanston-Illinois, Chicago News

Why would people who live in inner-ring suburbs such as Berwyn, Evanston, Oak Lawn and Oak Park be able to obtain health-care insurance quotes that ar...

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Reid Doesn't Need Lieberman

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: MSM Flaws, Public Option, Face the Nation, Health Care Reform, Msm, Joe Lieberman, Beltway Village Media, Bob Schieffer, Health Insurance, Politics News
Matt Osborne

In the end, Reid doesn't need 60 votes, and the stronger the public option the less reform costs. These two realities need to be repeated until they penetrate the debate.

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GOP Health Bill In The Works; Boehner Says Republican Bill Would Extend Insurance Coverage To "Millions"

Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...

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Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Politics, Human Rights, Crime, Harry Truman, Health Care Reform, Henry Waxman, Health Insurance, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

I have little doubt that the day will soon arrive when the CEOs of health "insurers" are dragged before Congress to face the same sort of interrogation to which the Waxman Hearings subjected Big Tobacco in the 1990s.

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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

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Miles Mogulescu

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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An Accidental Victory: The Launch of HuffPost Impact

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: Monique-Zimmerman-Stein, Huffpost Impact, Health Insurance, Gary Stein, Health Insurance Reform, Impact, Impact News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

On October 12, 2009, the Impact page was about 16 hours away from launch. We had everything ready to go -- except a lead story.

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So What if a Public Option Leads to Single-Payer?

Sahil Kapur | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Companies, Gop, Public Option, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Democrats, Health Care, Public Option Single Payer, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The conservative indictment against a public option is deeply ironic, and when closely examined, consists of two entirely contradictory cases about the nature of government.

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H1N1 Vaccine Delays Remind Us Why We Need a Sound Public Option

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Public Option, H1N1 Influenza, H1N1 Vaccine, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Banks, Insurance Companies, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

As a professor of both business and preventive medicine for years, I'm appalled at how long it is taking for the H1N1 vaccine to reach at least those at high risk.

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Jon Kyl Locks Constituents Out, but Will Arizona Opt Out?

Auburn McCanta | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Public Option, Health Care, Jon Kyl, Arizona, Phoenix, Politics News
Auburn McCanta

Senator Jon Kyl recently quipped to NBC's David Gregory on Meet the Press, "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance."

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Don't Let COBRA Benefits Run Out on American Families

Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cobra, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Economy, Unemployment Benefits, Economic Recovery, Health Insurance, Stimulus, Joe Sestak, Job Losses, Jobs, Politics News
Rep. Joe Sestak

Losing health care along with one's job is something Americans should not have to cope with at this difficult time. So I have introduced the Extended COBRA Continuation Protection Act of 2009.

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The Health Care Ghetto

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Health Insurance, Public Option, Rachel Maddow, Health Care, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

Will Americans actually be able to choose the public option or will it just be a health care ghetto for those of us who have been tossed out like unprofitable trash by the insurance industry?

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Our Health Future: The Business Case for Wyden-Bennett

Charles Kolb | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ron Wyden, Wyden-Bennett Healthy Americans Act, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Ced, Politics News
Charles Kolb

The Wyden-Bennett bill in the Senate Finance Committee was the only proposal that gets health care costs under control and avoids a government single-payer system in the long run.

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Uninsured: A Personal Price

Carmen Wong Ulrich | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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Carmen Wong Ulrich

My mother died because she didn't have health insurance. What sane person would not go to the doctor with her symptoms and suffering? A person who knew that going to the doctor costs money. Money that we found out she didn't have.

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Relief Comes To Family's Medical Debt Only After Mother's Death

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact

Read More: Health Insurance, Debt, Medical Bills, Poverty, Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Healthcare, Impact News

"We didn't have enough money to cremate her," Bob Wessenberg of Coppell, Texas, recalls, after being faced with his wife's catastrophic illness and th...

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An Entire Generation at Stake

Janet Murguía | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Population Reference Bureau, Poverty, Latinos, Children, Credit Programs, Economic Health, Early Childhood Education Programs, Opportunities, Obese-Children, Social Well-Being, Hispanic Children, Congress, Immigration System, Juvenile Justice System, U.S. Citizens, American Dream, Reformed Juvenile Justice System, Success, Education, Graduate From High School, U.S. Population, Health Insurance, Adult Jails, Political Power, Health Care, Fair Housing, Diversity, Politics News
Janet Murguía

Today, more than one-fourth of Latino children live in poverty. Three-fifths live in low-income families. One in five does not have health insurance. Only 55% graduate from high school.

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