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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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The Overturned Medicare Veto: A Good First Step Toward Resolving The Problems Of Privatization

John Geyman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Veto, Medicare Bill, Bush Veto Health Care, Medicare for All, Medicare, Health Insurance, Health Care, Overpayments, Politics News

Last week's action by Congress to override Bush's veto of the Medicare bill was a landmark step toward reversing the tide of privatization of the program over the last three decades.

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Friday Talking Points [39] -- Republican Elitism Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Timetable, Cindy McCain, Gas Tax Holiday, Campaign, Withdrawal, Ubs, Tax Haven, N-Word, Pete Stark, Nuts, UBS Bank, 2008, Condoleezza Rice, Dennis Kucinich, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Contraception, Swiss Bank, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Carl Levin, Health Care, Override, Abortion, The Pill, Elitist, John Conyers, Impeach, Time Horizon, Private Plane, Barrel, Non-Carbon, Congress, Joe Biden, Green, 08, Imperial Presidency, Barack Obama, Election, Ted Kennedy, 08 Election, Elections, Birth Control, Mddotw, Elitism, Contraceptive, Maliki, Gas Prices, Impeachment, Iraq, Arizona, Diplomacy, Bush, Iran, Electricity, Elite, Phil Gramm, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Hhs, Health and Human Services, Offshore Account, John McCain, War, Let Them Eat Cake, 2008 Elections, Jesse Jackson, 2008 Election, Golf, 08 Campaign, 2008 Presidential Race, Aspirational Goals, Oil Prices, Medicare, Veto, Fundraising, Politics News

For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...

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Friday Talking Points [38] -- Whiners And Cheeseheads

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: National Convention, Timetable, Pow, Fisa, Immunity, Campaign, Withdrawal, Telecom, Rnc, Nuts, 2008, Sofa, Mccain Flip-Flop, Dennis Kucinich, Midotw, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Status of Forces, Leni Riefenstahl, Football, Amnesty, Democrat, Nuremberg, 08, Acceptance Speech, Platform, Democrats, Barack Obama, Election, Sister Soulja, 08 Election, Stadium, Elections, Mddotw, Martin Luther King, Whiners, Maliki, Russ Feingold, Cheesehead, Speech, Senator, Impeachment, Iraq, Pittsburgh, Anniversary, Denver, King, Republican, Lion of the Senate, Phil Gramm, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Mental Recession, Green Bay Packers, John McCain, Mlk, Prisoner of War, 2008 Elections, Jesse Jackson, Green Eggs and Ham, 2008 Election, Teddy Kennedy, Recession, 08 Campaign, Convention, 2008 Presidential Race, I Have a Dream, Telecommunications, Medicare, Steve Schmidt, Flip Flop, Steelers, Broncos, Politics News

Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...

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Kennedy's Return Compelled 9 Republicans To Switch Medicare Votes

Washington Independent | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ted Kennedy Brain Tumor, Medicare Bill, Ted Kennedy Return Senate, Republicans Medicare Bill, Medicare, Ted Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Medicare Bill, GOP Medicare Bill, Politics News

Regarding yesterday's passage of the Democrats' Medicare bill: If there was ever question about what force of nature compelled nine Republicans to swi...

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Why is Health Care for America Now Giving Up on Real Reform?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, National Health Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

In search of a supposedly politically viable plan, the coalition has surrendered in advance on the only overhaul that will actually cure the disease: a single-payer, mproved Medicare for all reform.

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"Saving" Medicare by Killing It : Another Victory For Republicans, Industry and Their Lobbyists

John Geyman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Private Fee for Service (PFFS) Plans, Obama Healthcare, Medicare Plus Choice, Medicare Prescription Drug, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Privatize Medicare, The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, Grover Norquist, Living News

Even after the House gave overwhelming bipartisan support to the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act by a vote of 355-59 (including 129 Republican votes), the Senate fell two votes short to overcome a presidential veto.

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Bush Freezes Medicare Fee Cuts

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicare, Medicare Finances, Doctors, George W. Bush, Health, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Federal Budget, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more...

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Death Under the Guise of Health Care

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for All, John Conyers, Insurance Industry, Donna Smith, Martin Luther King Jr., Single Payer, Medicare, Marilyn Clement, America's Health Insurance Plans, Health Care, H.R. 676, C. Rocky White, Health Care Meltdown, Politics News

In San Francisco yesterday, over 1,000 protesters were spilling from the sidewalks outside the Moscone Center -- demanding health care for all.

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How Obama Can Win Over Seniors and Turn the November Election Into a Democratic Landslide

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Racial Prejudice, Values, Iraq War, Social Security, Privatization, Racism, Universal Health Care, General Election, Medicare, Barack Obama, Politics News

The key to neutralizing the natural advantage McCain holds with seniors is to convince them that Obama wants "safe change" -- that he himself is "safe" and predictable.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Corporate Espionage, Doug Goodyear DCI Group, John McCain, Karl Rove, Undocumented Immigrants, Social Security, Federal Deficit, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Epa, Burger King, Fbi, Yum Brands, Pollution, Coal, Wal-Mart, Bush 2009 Budget, McCain Lobbyists, Plastic, Endangered Species, Hurricane Katrina, Medicare, National Parks, Wildlife, Media News

Karl Rove faces possible arrest; sea of plastic threatens aquatic life; corporate espionage continues; deficit off by trillions, and more...

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Slow Medicine: How Do We Keep Personal Choice from Becoming Impersonal Policy?

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Slow Medicine, Elderly, Health Insurance, Medicare, Patient Rights, Health Care, Politics News

As described, slow medicine sounds like a great idea, buoyed by statistics. But will doctors urge me to forgo treatment because it's best for me, or because it's best for the bottom line?

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U.S. Official: Medicare "Drifting Towards Disaster"

Reuters | KIM GAME | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Medicare Finances, Medicare Issues, Medicare, Business News

Medicare is lurching toward disaster and it is too late for the Bush Administration and Congress to do anything about it, U.S. Health and Human Servic...

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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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Trust Not in Trust Funds

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession, U.S. Economy, Social Security, Medicare, Baby Boomers, Federal Government, Treasury Bonds, Trust Funds, Business News

The U.S. government is going to give itself a financial hernia paying back the Social Security and Medicare funds and keeping up with demand.

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Government Benefit Programs in Trouble

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Benefit Programs, U.S. Economy, Henry Paulson, Social Security, Medicare, Hank Paulson, Social Se, Financial Pressure, Business News

WASHINGTON — Trustees for the government's two biggest benefit programs warned that Social Security and Medicare are facing "enormous challenges...

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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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Presidential Candidates Channel Bart Simpson

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Heritage Foundation, Home Heating Subsidies, Debt, Marriage Penalty, The Simpsons, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Money, Federal Debt, Congressional Budget Office, Medicare, Hillary Clinton, Federal Budget, Alternative Minimum Tax, Brookings Institution, College Tuition Credits, Government Accountability Office, Business News

The majority of Americans can be impressively sensible and level-headed when they are given the facts and asked to consider trade-offs, but they don't like to be blindsided.

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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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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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Gone Daddy, Gone

Peter Mehlman | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living

Read More: Iowa Caucuses, Baby Boomers, Medicare, 2008 Election, Health Care, Baby Boomer Insurance, Living News

As I see it now, in selling people on the privilege of entering the health care system, presidential candidates are basically raffling off vacations to Fallujah.

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Medicare To Stop Paying For Two Cancer Drugs

New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business

Read More: Medicare Cancer, Bexxar, Medicare Cancer Drugs, Medicare, Cancer Drugs, Non-Hodgkins Lymphona, Lymphoma, Zevalin, Business News

New Medicare rules for a small but promising class of cancer drugs may cause thousands of lymphoma patients to lose access to the treatment, which in ...

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Hillary, Not Barack, Is The One

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 12.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: New Hampshire Primary, Hillary Clinton, Medicare, Barack Obama, United Nations, Politics News

The American primary process once again reveals the strengths and weaknesses of our presidential contenders, despite its costs, its length, and its confusions.

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The Liberal Trap

Jay Mandle | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Triangulation, Campaign Finance Reform, Social Security, New Deal, Public Campaign Fincancing, Special Interest Groups, Medicare, Clinton Administration, Campaign Finance, Politics News

The public's skepticism of government is so profound that only by making "fair and clean elections" a matter of urgency will people come to believe that its advocacy is not simply sophisticated dissembling.

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