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Leading Healthcare Change: No Room for Politics as Usual

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Child Mortality, Women, Women Mortality Rate, Pregnancy, Health Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Tom Daschle Health Care, Barack Obama, Women's Healthcare, Insurance, Women's Health, Pregnant Women, Obama's Cabinet, Tom Daschle, Secretary of Energy, Medicaid, Medicare, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Healthcare, Infant Mortality, Sick Children, Politics News
Dr. Peter Klatsky

We are facing incredibly difficult decisions, but policies implemented today will help us to live healthier, longer lives, while also saving billions of dollars.

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Terrorism Causes Pakistan's Insurance Industry to Boom

GroundReport | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Insurance Industry, Pakistan Terrorism, Insurance, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Pakistan Crisis, Terrorist, Afghanistan War, World News
GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news from the ground. By Jamil Bhatti ISLAMABAD-- Escal...

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Provide Primary Health Care, Save Money

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jim Clyburn | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bernie Sanders, James Clyburn, Obama Health Care, Tom Daschle Health Care, Health Care, Medicaid, Obama Healthcare, Health Insurance, Insurance, Walk-in Clinics, Tom Daschle, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Healthcare, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jim Clyburn

Community health centers are open to patients with Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and those who have no insurance at all. No one who walks in is turned away because he or she lacks payment.

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Obama's Health Care Reform and Social Networks: An Experiment

Francine Hardaway | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Obama, Health, Social Networks, Insurance, Obama Health Care Policy, Federal Health Care, Private Health Care, Obama Administration, NASE, Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

We have the power to help Obama in a big way if he truly wants to produce health care reform, because we understand the viral potential of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Obama Interviews the Medical Blogosphere on Healthcare Reform

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Depression, Physicians, Nursing, Medicine 2.0, Grand Rounds Blog Carnival, Blog Carnival, Training, Psychological Help, Mental Health, Antipsychotics, Obama, Innovation, Drugs, Patients, Kaiser Family Foundation, Stress, Medical Help, Non Pharmacological, Uninsured, Insurance, Health, Stress Free, Exercise, Grand Rounds, Meditation, Technology, Chronic Illness, Medicine, Healthcare, Learn, Politics News
Alvaro Fernandez

Without further ado, below you have this week's Grand Rounds -- a Q&A session with over 30 bloggers led by the incoming President on how to reform (for the better, we hope) healthcare.

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The New Bernanke-Bair-Paulson Insurance Company

Economix | Uwe E. Reinhardt | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Treasury Department, Insurance, Finance, Economy, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Banks, Personal Finance, Ben Bernanke, Sheila Bair, Business News

After first trying in vain to become toxic-asset managers and, next, non-voting equity investors in shaky banks, the peripatetic trio composed of the ...

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"The Great American Detour"

Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Debt, Caledonia, Gas, Bus, Youth, St. Louis, Economy, Pollution, Election, America, Education, Unemployment, Port Arthur, Vote, Insurance, Environment, Berea, Awol, Houston, Tour, Healthcare, Detroit, Living News
Current TV’s “Vanguard”

This summer, I took a road trip across the country to see what's really on the minds of young Americans at this critical moment in American history. ...

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Insurers Lining Up for that Bailout Pie

Deborah Senn | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Treasury, Aig, Prudential, Bailout, Financial Services Roundtable, Insurance, The Hartford, Metlife, Financial Crisis, Insurance Bailout, Business News
Deborah Senn

The insurers, having heard that Hank Paulson at Treasury is writing huge checks to bailout troubled banks, are pushing for government to help them get over their financial problems too.

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Insurance Insanity

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Cost, Insurance, Economy, Health, Salary, Financial Crisis, Earning, Medical, Premiums, Living News
Roseanne Colletti

The consumer health organization, "Families USA", reports health care premiums in the U.S. rose 5 and ½ times faster than earnings over the last eight years.

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Healthcare Abducted

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Exercise, President, Drugs, Life Force, Drug Sales, Congress, Nutrition, Healthcare, Big Pharma, Diet, Government, Physicians, McCombs Plan, Drug Lobby, LifeForce Plan, Unemployment, Weight Loss, Pharmaceutical, Health, Insurance, Americans, R&D, Quality of Life, Living News
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Mainstream healthcare in America has been abducted by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. As profits have moved to the center stage, patient c...

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More Ridiculous Healthcare Proposals From Our Future Leaders

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, John McCain, Insurance, Breaking Political News, Health, Obama, Health Care, Healthcare, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
Doug Bremner

I am watching the Obama-McCain debate on TV right now and I thought I should offer some 'medical perspective'.

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The Banking Scandal: Repeating the Same Mistakes and Expecting Different Results

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Bailout, Economy, Congress, Regulation, Regulators, Insure Bank Deposits, President, Office of Management and Budget, Main Street, Fdic, Savings and Loan, Jimmy Carter, Omb, Insurance, 250, 000, Assets, Banking Scandal, 700 Billion, Business News
Reese Schonfeld

The President and Congress have finally allowed us to allocate $700 billion to a policy, about whose success they are, at least reasonably, doubtful. They should enact new regulations.

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Allstate: Can Brain Training Help Improve Driver Safety?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Older Drivers, Driving, Aging, Insight, Insurance, Driving Skills, Health, Auto Insurance, Safety, Allstate, Brain Training, Software, Posit Science, Brain Fitness, Teenagers, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Allstate, which called the Posit program "potentially the next big breakthrough in automobile safety," said it expects software exercises to reduce risky driving maneuvers by up to 40 percent.

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AIG Executives Win Record Government Bailout: Next Stop, Disneyland

Deborah Senn | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Regulation, Aig, Credit Default Swaps, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Insurance, Disneyland, Business News
Deborah Senn

Too often insurers create labyrinthine corporate structures to avoid oversight -- when the "non-insurance" holding company is the puppet-master for the entire corporate entity.

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McCain's Health Care Plan Radically Irresponsible

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Senate, John McCain, Insurance, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Democrats, Health Care, Republicans, Home News
Michael L. Millenson

What a disappointment. Here Barack Obama accuses John McCain of pushing a "radical" health care plan, and instead of grabbing the chance to don a scar...

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Palin Talks About Special Needs Children, But Obama Has Substantive Plans For All People With Disabilities

Paul K. Longmore | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Americans With Disabilities Act, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Disabilities, John McCain, Health, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Insurance, Schip, Home News
Paul K. Longmore

Ever since Sarah Palin's acceptance speech, there has been a great deal of talk about "special needs" children but little about the issues that concer...

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Bayoneting the Wounded

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Regulation, Long Term Care, Insurance, Senior Health Insurance of Pennsylvania, Bonnie Burns, Conseco, Conseco Senior Health Insurance Company, LTC, SHIP, Insurance Policy, CSHIC, Senior Health Insurance Trust, Business News
Deborah Senn

Conseco will again be in the spotlight for reasons related to its troubled insurance operations.

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Fifty Chimpanzees or One Toothless Gorilla

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Deregulation Crisis, Insurance, Congress, GLBA, Depression-Era, Phil Gramm, Policyholders, Economy, Senate Banking Committee, Cds, Credit Default Swaps, Capital Adequacy, Financial Securities, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, State Insurance Regulators, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Bailout Cost, Gramm Leach Bliley Act, Financial Meltdown, Subsidiaries, Business News
Deborah Senn

AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)

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Hurricane Ike: Bad Insurance Winds Blowing

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Industry, Hurricane Insurance, Hurricanes, Insurance, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Ike Gulf Coast, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike Texas, Insurance Companies, Business News
Deborah Senn

Thousands of Texas Gulf Coast storm victims who are now picking up the pieces after Hurricane Ike may be in for a shock when they file insurance claims.

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Walking the Plank With Captain "Bailout" Paulson

Blaise Nutter | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Pirates, Billionaires, Wall Street Crisis, Taxpayers, Wall Street, Bailouts, Piracy, Insurance, Wall Street Bailouts, Henry Paulson Jr., Treasury, Paulson Wall Street Crisis, Financial Bailouts, Business News
Blaise Nutter

Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, in case you hadn't noticed. Everyone's getting into the act... but no one could compete with the pirate-talk of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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AIG Bailout "No Sweetheart Deal"

Wall Street Journal, New York Times | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.18.2008 | Business

Read More: AIG Bailout, Aig, Government Bailout, Economy, Resolution Trust Corp., AIG Ripple Effect, Insurance, AIG Consequences, Why Bail Out AIG?, Bailouts, Banks, Federal Reserve, Business News

The government bailout of insurance giant AIG with a massive loan was anxiously anticipated by TV analysts yesterday. The Wall Street Journal blogged ...

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George Bush Becomes a Socialist

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bear Stearns, Government Bailout, Freddie Mac, Insurance, Communist, George W. Bush, Aig, Fannie Mae, Nationalizing Industries, Socialist, Health Insurance, Deregulation, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

What happened, I thought the government was unnecessary? I thought "unfettered" markets would do their magic if you just deregulated them. Why are you fettering?

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Stocks end higher after Fed keeps rates unchanged

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Stocks, Personal Finance, Insurance, Economy, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street ended another tumultuous session with a sizable gain Tuesday, partly recovering from its worst sell-off in years after th...

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NY Allows AIG To Borrow From Own Subsidiaries To Stay Afloat Long Enough To Sell Them

AP | IEVA M. AUGSTUMS and STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Insurance, Personal Finance, Wall Street, New York, David Paterson, Banking Crisis, Economy, Business News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — American International Group Inc. will be allowed to use $20 billion of assets held by its subsidiaries to provide cash needed...

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Are Hurricanes Or Wall Street Losses Driving Premium Increases? CNBC Didn't Like My Answer

Jamie Court | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Premiums, Insurance, Gustav, Cnbc, Home News
Jamie Court

The CNBC anchors acted like I'd yelled fire in a crowded movie house when I pointed out this morning that it was investment losses driving insurance ...

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