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Long-Term Thinking About Future Health: Seven Trends That Should Concern Us

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts Health Reform, Physician Reimbursement, Transhumanism, Primary Care, Climate Change, Futurism, Health, Superbugs, Health Economics, Medicaid, Underutilization, Medicare, Health Reform, Global Warming, Politics News

Seven current healthcare trends include doctors leaving the public system, a shortfall in primary care, underutilization of medical treatment, "superbugs," virtual health care, climate change, and radical self-redesign and enhancement.

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Wal-Mart's Wages Increase in China, Rollback in US

David Nassar | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Walton, Wages, Economy, Schip, Medicaid, China, Wal-Mart, Labor, Minimum Wage, Walmart Equality, Etic, Business News

Instead of perpetuating a cycle of poverty among its workers, it's time Wal-Mart consider a meaningful wage increase for its U.S. employees who are struggling to make ends.

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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

Cristina Page | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Conscience Objector, Anti-Contraception, Contraception, Hhs, Medicaid, Pro-Life, Refusal Clause, Pro-Choice, Title X, Leavitt, Politics News

Health and Human Services now proposes that anyone can enforce his or her own definition of abortion "within the bounds of reason." And, it would seem the bounds are pretty far flung.

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Think You Need a Raise? Caregivers for the Disabled Need One More Than You Do

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Reform Developmental Disability, Medicaid, Health, Illinois, Healthcare Workers, Afsme, Living News

We trust direct care workers to care for our loved ones. We should earn their trust by paying a living wage.

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62 Extremist Republicans Vote To Cut Billions From Medicaid

Howie Klein | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Scott Garrett, Health Care, Dennis Shulman, Politics News

Bush and McCain are screeching like 2 old fishwives at a market about how they can't change the unfair tax code during a recession but neither has any problem whatsoever eviscerating medical care for the poorest Americans.

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House Republicans Overwhelmingly Desert Bush On Medicaid Rules

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Democrat, Democratic, Wedge Issue, Veto-Proof, Medicaid, 2008 Elections, Campaign, 08, Election Issue, 2008 Election, Election, Barack Obama, Bush, 08 Election, Elections, Campaign Issue, 08 Campaign, 2008, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Veto, Override, Politics News

For an election-year issue, this is hard to beat. Which is obviously why two-thirds of House Republicans jumped ship from Bush's position.

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Do You Know Where You IRS Check Goes?

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: April 15, White House, Social Security, Tax Deadline, Irs, Fiscal Responsibility, Tax Day, Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, Tax, Deficit, Business News

Not where most Americans think, based on everything we've seen in polls and focus groups. Americans' distorted ideas about where the government spends...

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Let Vincent Buy New Pants! Support the Financial Security Accounts for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2008

Harold Pollack | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Security Accounts for Individuals With Disabilities Act of 2008), Disabled, Medicaid, Health Reform, Fragile X, Senator Casey, Autism, Orren Hatch, Politics News

Let's take a short leave from the campaign bloodlust to give Senators Casey and Hatch, along with their House counterparts, some real credit for this bill.

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CVS to Pay $37.5 Million to Settle Pill Switching Case

Wall Street Journal | Jacob Goldstein | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: CVS, Medicaid, CVS Pharmacies, Whistleblowers, CVS Lawsuit, Zantac, Ranitidine, Business News

CVS is paying $36.7 million to settle allegations that the company defrauded the government by improperly switching patients taking generic Zantac to ...

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Warfare and Healthcare

Norman Solomon | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Pentagon, Military Spending, Lobbyists, Martin Luther King Jr., War, New York Times, Medicaid, Medicare, Single-Payer Healthcare, H.R. 676, Healthcare, Politics News

It's kind of logical. In a pathological way. A country that devotes a vast array of resources to killing capabilities will steadily undermi...

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Where Are the Children in President Bush's Budget?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Children's Health, Child Watch, Marian Wright Edelman, Budget, Schip, George W. Bush, Child Poverty, Poverty, Bush Budget, Federal Budget, Politics News

Even a cursory analysis of Bush's spending proposal reveals a failure in many areas to construct a budget that protects the well-being of children in low- to middle-income families.

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Three Ugly Little Truths About The Federal Budget

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 02.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Cutting Federal Budget, Medicare, Medicaid, Congress, Federal Budget, Bush Budget, Business News

This country really needs to start thinking seriously about cutting spending, raising taxes, or doing some of both. The United States is a wealthy nation. We're not Haiti. There's no fundamental reason our government can't live within its means. But so far, it doesn't even deserve an "E" for effort.

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Clinton's Health Plan May Require Tapping Into Wages

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: California Primary, Mitt Romney Super Tuesday, New York Primary, Super Tuesday Primary, New Jersey Primary, Healthcare Plan, Illinois Primary, February 5th, Barack Obama Super Tuesday, Obama Campaign, Clinton Campaign, Mike Huckabee, Republican Primaries, Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Super Tuesday Primaries, Medicare, John McCain, Hillary Clinton Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday Campaigning, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Huckabee Super Tuesday, Democratic Primaries, 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, GOP Primaries, Medicaid, Clinton Obama California, Tuesday Primaries, Super Tuesday Polls, Super Tuesday Results, John McCain Super Tuesday, Politics News

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance to achieve c...

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Bush Cuts Will Cost Lives

Gerald McEntee | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afscme, Home Care, Bush Plan, Bush Cuts, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Medical Care, Health Care Proposal, Medicae, Politics News

The president's plan will not only require hospitals to cut back services, but it will reduce the quality of medical care for millions of families.

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Code Blue! Republicans Leaning Left on Healthcare!

Craig Stoltz | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

The most interesting thing that showed up on the Healthcare08 PoliGraph jumped out in plain red and blue. Several Republicans held positions in the blue zone on some healthcare issues. Not so for Democrats.

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This is Ridiculous

Jill Greenberg | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Medicare, Aarp, Going to the Doctor, Healthcare Crisis, Healthcare Costs, Politics News

It's just a little nuts that health care costs so much. And we can only hope that politicians come together to find solutions to this. But until then, we are all stuck.

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Mitt Romney is Thinking of a Number

Chris Kelly | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Social Security, Nuclear Weapons, Funding the Troops, Veterans Day, Romney Weapons Funding, Mitt Romney, Medicaid, Medicare, Romney Spending, Romney Heritage Foundation, Weapons Spending, Department of Defense, Defense Spending, Politics News

Mitt Romney celebrated Veterans Day with a message. A promise. A pledge: To cut veterans' hospitals, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare and spend the money on weapons.

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Probe Finds 30,000 Medicaid Providers Cheating On Taxes

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business

Read More: Medicaid, Medicaid Back Taxes, Business News

A Senate panel is asking why more than 30,000 Medicaid providers -- doctors and others in the health care field -- owe at least $1 billion in back tax...

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The Next Inconvenient Truth

Peter Sims | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Government Spending, Responsibile Spending, Federal Spending, Inconvenient Truth, National Debt, Fiscal Responsibility, Fiscal Crisis, Fiscal Action, Medicare, Medicaid, Congress, Politics News

While the national debt is currently roughly $9.0 trillion, that figure does not include future obligations for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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S-CHIP Plan B: Automatic Enrollment

Rob Nelb | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush SCHIP Veto, Healthcare for Kids, Automatic Enrollment Schip, Bush SCHIP, Affordable Healthcare, Medicaid, Automatic Enrollment, Schip, Politics News

In the context of children's health insurance, automatic enrollment is an innovative way to reach nearly all of the estimated six million children who are eligible, but not enrolled in Medicaid and S-CHIP.

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