Medicare Prescription Drug Reform

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Medicare 'Doughnut Hole': Seniors Skeptical Of Health Care Reform Persuaded By Plan's Promise To Close Prescription Coverage Gap

Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Senior Citizens, Health Care Reform, Medicare Prescription Drug, Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Business News

MIAMI (MATT SEDENSKY -- AP) -- Lawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut ho...

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Political Health Endgame: You Deserve Better Solutions

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Canton, Marcia Angell, Longevity, Dr. Andrew Weil, Ken Dychtwald, Health Care Reform, Antiaging-Medicine, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Anuerin Bevin, Nhs, Big Pharma, Health Insurance, Ray Kurzweil, Politics News

Our current medical model is based on disease and organ pathology. A disease management system. No overt disease and your doctor will dismiss you. It will not be covered by your insurance.

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How We Can Afford Health Care Reform

Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Medicare Advantage Plans, Recovery Audit, Medicare, Health Care Overhaul, Politics News

There seem to be two fixes to the Medicare problem. One consists of paying private insurers differently; the other, paying providers differently. Neither involves pulling the plug on grandma.

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'Public Option' a Shadow of Its Original Intent - Dr. Marcia Angell Advises Optional Medicare Buy-In

Michele Swenson | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Polls Favor Medicare, Optional Medicare Buy-In, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Jacob Hacker's Criteria for Public Option, Dr. Marcia Angell, Kip Sullivan, Health Care Reform, Politics News

By marginalizing the single-payer model from the outset, Democrats have already backed away from making the best case for health care reform as means to economic recovery.

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Is Health Care Reform About to Go the Way of No Child Left Behind?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Preventative Healthcare, Health Care Lobbyists, Public Option, Prevention, Phrma, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Obama Drug Lobbyists, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Wellness, Obama PhRMA, PhRMA Lobby, Politics News

The White House may be willing to cave on drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly.

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Dems & Repubs on Health Care: 'Love a Lobbyist'

Michele Swenson | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

The same insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies have granted themselves billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies and inflated profits continue to shape the healthcare reform debate today.

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Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk

Michele Swenson | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Economic Crisis, Government Health Care, Medical Bankdruptcy, Taxpayer-Subsidized Medical Costs, Unpaid Medical Bills, Privatized Medicare, National Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Socialized Risk, Rising Out-of-Pocket Health Costs, Socialized Medicine, For-Profit Insurance, Health, Single Payer Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Health Care, American Hospital Association, Unitedhealth, William McGuire, John McCain, Minimum Benefit Plans, America's Health Insurance Providers, American Medical Association, Home News

The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers.

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