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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

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

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care, Carmen Wong Ulrich, Powerwomentv, Cnbc, Politics News

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

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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Lieberman Lies About the Public Option

Bill Scher | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Opt-Out, Health Care, Harry Reid, Senate, Joe Lieberman, Health Insurance, Aetna, Politics News

Lieberman announced today he would filibuster the health care bill because it contains a public option compromise. Why does he want to do this? I don't know (*cough* -- Aetna -- *cough* *cough*) exactly.

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Medical Malpractice Insurers: Time to End Their License to Gouge

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Medical Malpractice, McCarran-Ferguson Act, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Laws to repeal the anti-trust exemption for health insurance have been introduced in every Congress for many years. The industry has fought back every time and nothing was ever really accomplished -- until now.

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Woman Denied Health Care Insurance After Rape Tells Her Story (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Christina Turner, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Hiv, Preexisting Condition, Rape, rapeisnotapreexistingcondition.com, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality, Insurance Industry, Rapisnotaprexistingcondition, Anderson Cooper, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Com, Politics News

Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...

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Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Health Insurance, Motherhood, Fatherhood, New Treatments for Infertility, Future, Babies, Fertility Treatments, New Fertility Treatments, Womb Transplants, Results, Parenthood, Health, Home News

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...

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Arianna Weighs In On The Senate Health Care Bill And The Challenges Ahead

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Big Pharma, Ben Nelson, Blue Dog, Public Option, Countdown With Keith Olberman, Health Insurance, Democrats, Opt Out, Mandate, Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Blanche Lincoln, Senate, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Gop, Health Care, Media News

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...

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Who's Killing the Public Option? President Obama With a Rahm-Bow

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Those fighting for a "robust" public option need to finally accept the hard truth that Barack Obama is not an ally. He's an obstacle.

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Why the Silence on Extending Jobless Health Care Benefits?

Mark Miller | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jobless, Cobra, Joblessness, Health Insurance, Arlen Specter, Health Care Subsidy, Social Security, Obama Administration, Obama, Cost of Living Adjustment, Seniors, Cost of Living Increase, Economic Stimulus Package, Cobra Health Insurance, Aarp, Joe Sestak, Health Care, Politics News

What's more important: a cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits for retired people, or health insurance subsidies for the unemployed? The answer depends on your clout in Washington.

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AP: Health Care Bill May Cut Employer Mandate

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform Bill, Health Care Mandate Penalties, Employer Mandate, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Subsidies, Pre-Existing Conditions, Health Care, Mandate Penalties, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms wou...

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Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Pentagon, Troops, Medicare for All, Rumor Mongering, Guantanamo, Monopoly, Reform, Alan Grayson, Dscc, Pentagon Budget, Roger Ailes, Nixonian, Charles Schumer, President, Magic, Military, Bailout, Emanuel, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Ailes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Reid, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Congress, Playing the Victim, Close Gitmo Now, Rumor, Stage Magic, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rage Against the Machine, Executive Compensation, Calls, Schumer, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Wasted, Health, Weiner, Harry Reid, Nixon, Healthcare, Senate, Orchestra Pit Theory, President Obama, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Fox, Obama, Democratic, Media, Grayson, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Pelosi, Snowe, Enemy, Organizing for America, Misdirect, Guantanamo Bay, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Orchestra Pit, Victim, Robust Public Option, Anthony Weiner, Trigger, Trust Busting, House, Tom Morello, Victim Card, War, Ad, Opt Out, 1000 Hours, Defense Appropriations, Enemy of America, Misdirection, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, 300000, Fox News, Medicare, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Torture, Morello, Politics News

The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

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Covering the Uncovered

Christal Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Insurance, Uninsured, Lisa Ling, Young, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Living News

Remember when you were just starting out and it was all you could do to cover the monthly expenses you HAD to pay-like rent and utilities-and paying...

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Constituents Demand Sen. Kyl Acknowledge Loved Ones' Suffering, Deaths

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator John McCain, Health Insurance, Jon Kyl, Health Insurance Reform, Mccain, John Kyl, Politics News

I received email after email from HuffPost readers... furious that Senator Kyl doesn't understand the consequences for ordinary Americans who can't afford insurance or medical treatment.

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Your Child May Be Denied Health Care Coverage Unless You Can Get on The Today Show

Donna Fish | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Picky Eaters, The Today Show, Parenting, Living News

I am always telling parents of picky eaters to look at their kid's growth curve. What is important is whether or not your child is staying on his or her own curve.

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Aislin Bates, Toddler Denied Health Insurance For Being Small, Will Be Covered After Appeal (Video)

Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Health Care, Colorado Toddler, Aislin Bates, Toddler Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Underweight Toddler Insurance, Denver News

Aislin Bates, the 2-year-old Colorado toddler who was denied health care coverage for being too small, will now be covered after the insurance company...

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Michelle Obama Thanks Veterans Affairs Employees

Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Services, Veterans Affairs, Michelle Obama, VA Hospital, Veterans, Impact News

Michelle Obama paid a visit to the Veterans Affairs headquarters on Tuesday, part of a tour of all cabinet department headquarters, and thanked VA emp...

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Public Options and Cadillac Plans

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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

One of the key elements of reform to which insurers are opposed is the taxing of so-called "Cadillac Plans." Their reasoning? These plans are big, expensive, moneymakers for the insurers.

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Anthony Weiner: Obama Administration "Half-Pregnant With The Insurance Industry"

The Hill | Jordan Fabian | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Companies, Anthony Weiner Public Option, Public Option, Anthony Weiner Pregnant Obama, Anthony Weiner Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Anthony Weiner, Obama Health Insurers, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is "half-pregnant" with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which...

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Humana: Profits Over People

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Public Option, Health Care. Tricare, Linda Peeno, America's Health Insurance Plans, Nancy Pelosi, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Michael McCallister, Max Baucus, Jill Canino, Medicare Advantage, Ahip, Humana, Politics News

Whoever picked the name "Humana" for the health insurance giant had a great sense of humor. Had the marketing genius in charge of picking a name for the corporation been more honest, he would have called it "Profita."

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Aislin Bates: Colorado Toddler Denied Health Insurance For Being Underweight

Huffington Post | Eric Sorensen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Colorado Insurance, Alex Lange, Preexisting Condition, Aislin Gates, United Healthcare Golden Rule, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Underweight Baby, Health Care, Uninsured Baby, Overweight Baby, Business News

The parents of a two-year-old girl in Colorado are unable to obtain health insurance for their daughter because the insurer, United Healthcare Golden ...

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A Health Insurance Mandate and Corporate Monopoly

Zack Cooper | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Finance Committee, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Baucus, Obama Health Care, Insurance Mandate, Health Care, Politics News

The only way to go from sickness care to health promotion is with both tougher regulation of insurance companies and a meaningful mandate for individuals to buy health insurance.

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I Am Not a Dog

Ian Pearl | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Guardian, Muscular Dystrophy, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Politics News

I know firsthand that our health care system can provide life-saving care. But I'm living proof that insurance-company "death squads" behind closed doors routinely make life-sustaining benefits vanish.

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