Obama Health Care

Getting The Job Done Right: Strengthening The Senate Bill To Fully Protect Competition

David Balto | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Today, the market for health care is structured such that conflicts of interest, a lack of choice and a lack of transparency significantly hinder meaningful competition. With health care reform, we can change that.

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Will Health Reform Opponents Face The Facts?

Larry McNeely | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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While it's perfectly reasonable to argue about the best way to reduce costs, it is the height of irresponsibility to do nothing about a national crisis and hope the sloganeering and inaction redounds to your political advantage.

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Obama Not Upping His Involvement In Health Care Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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President Obama is not planning to increase (or, for that matter, decrease) his involvement in the health care debate even as legislation enters a piv...

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Point 6: Connectivity Is Key To Care Improvement

George Halvorson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

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It is sad and ironic that an information-dependent profession is denied convenient access to needed information in an age when we connect other aspects of our infrastructure easily and often.

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Health Care Rationing: Why the "R" Word is a Red Herring

N. E. Marsden | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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it is ludicrous to imply that private insurance companies don't ration care by flat-out refusing procedures that people genuinely need or desperately want.

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Obama Faces Showdowns On Health Care, Afghanistan, Jobs

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Wash...

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Cartoon: Iceberg Dead Ahead!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

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I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.

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Economists Tout Health Care Reform In Letter To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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In a boost to the Obama administration's efforts to frame health care reform as an economic boon, a group of 20 health economists sent a letter to th...

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Point 5: A Double Mandate For Health Works For Europe

George Halvorson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

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How do countries who use private health plans achieve universal coverage? They use a "double mandate: Everyone must buy. Everyone must sell.

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Health Care Reform Through an M&A Lens

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care "division" would represent a major acquisition. Companies don't add units without combining, consolidating, streamlining, and reducing.

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Point 4: Americans Are Obese And Inert -- Resulting In Huge Health Care Costs

George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.

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Point 3: We Need an Orbitz for Health

George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

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Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.

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America's Health Care Stupidity

Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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The momentum is there and the Senate may water down health care reform but it will pass some version. This will become one of the most popular and beloved policies since Social Security and Medicare.

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Some Dems Vow To Block Final Health Bill If Anti-Abortion Amendment Stays

The Plum Line | Alec MacGillis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter...

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Concerned Obama Pressures Senate To Pass Health Care Bill

New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up press...

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Speaker Pelosi: Please Stop Bullsh*ting Us on Dropping State Single Payer Amendment

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Progressive leaders are calling the neutered public option in the House bill a "once in a lifetime reform," despite the fact that it has eliminated the very provision they promised was essential.

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Obama States Strong Support For House Health Care Reform, Public Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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With the House of Representatives set to vote on health care reform during a session on Saturday, the White House announced its support for the legisl...

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Cantor Scoffs At AARP and AMA Health Care Reform Endorsements

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va) scoffed and downplayed the significance of two major health-care related interest groups endorsing Democratic a...

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Point 2: Care is Inconsistent and Too Often Unsafe

George Halvorson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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For today, we need to recognize that we spend more money in America on health care than any other country by a factor of two or three -- and we are not getting the consistent, high-quality care we should be getting for all the money we are spending

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Fans of House Health Option Cite Rights, Hopes, But Risk Big Defeat

Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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Despite favorable national poll numbers, the public option faces a potentially fatal counter-attack during the weeks ahead because of lack of follow-up by its proponents.

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AARP To Endorse House Health Care Bill: AP

AP | ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Officials are telling The Associated Press that AARP_the seniors' lobby_will endorse the health care overhaul bill that House Democ...

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Calling Out the House Progressive Caucus: Are You Men and Women, or Are You Mice?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

If you break your pledge and vote for a health reform bill without this minimally robust version of the public option, you've ensured that even with a Democratic majority, all "reform" will be limited by your Blue Dog colleagues.

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Leadership, Obama Style

Drew Westen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Genuine leadership means setting the agenda. It means taking tough stands. Leadership is a quality Barack Obama showed on the campaign trail. It is a quality he has failed to show as president.

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White House Feels Vindicated By Health Care Reform Strategy

New York Times | Robert Pear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama's arms-length ...

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Obama Year One: The Public Is A Trust, Not An Option

Dan Siegel | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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One year since an historic election, where the Obama administration has fallen short in our hopes for a truly new direction, one finds the central conflict to be between public good and private gain.

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