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"Facts" About American Health Care Revisited

John Geyman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, National Center for Policy Analysis, Uninsured, Ncpa, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, PhRMA Lobby, Single Payer System, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Ahip, Medical-Loss Ratio, Pnhp, Politics News

A recent post at the National Center for Policy Analysis expounded on 10 "surprising facts" about our health care system. The piece cherry picks literature to make a political point.

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For Young Americans, Health Care Reform Is Our Fight

Erica Williams | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Young Voters, Health Care Reform, Youth Vote, Uninsured, Politics News

For my generation, health care reform is more than a personal story or experience: it is a moral and humanitarian mandate.

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Four Health Care Reform Issues We Are Ignoring

Kate Kelly | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Uninsured, Misuse of Emergency Rooms, Preventive Care, Politics News

As a health and medical writer, here are four issues that are not always clearly explained when the potential changes in our health care system are discussed.

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Subsidizing Our Way To Affordable Health Insurance: A Futile And Unaffordable Quest

John Geyman | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Expansion of Medicaid, Uninsured, Senate Finance Committee, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, PhRMA Lobby, Single Payer System, Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Ahip, H. R. 3200, Medical-Loss Ratio, Pnhp, Politics News

What is likely to emerge from Congress on health care reform this year, if anything, will not be real reform and will only add to our problems.

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Public Option Not The Core Of Reform: Ezra Klein

Washington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uninsured, Health Care Exchanges, Public Health Care Option, Public Option, Ezra Klein, Politics News

"[E]ven if getting any bill called 'health care reform' passed would be good short-term politics," writes political scientist Scott Lemieux, "it's wor...

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The Public Option: Dead By Pen Strokes In Congressional Committees

John Geyman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Jacob Hacker, H. R. 676, Uninsured, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Single Payer System, Ahip, Massachusetts Miracle, Pnhp, Living News

The initial idea of a public option was premised on the thought that a public plan could bring needed competition into the financing of health care. Forget that dream.

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Blue Dogs Should Demand CBO Report of Single Payer Savings

Michele Swenson | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Lobbies, Comprehensive Health Care Coverage, Uninsured, Single Payer Cost Savings, Underinsured, Colorado Single Payer, Budget Deficit, Lewin Group Health Care Reform Evaluation, Blue Dog Democrats, Republican Deficit Hawks, Health Care Reform, Transparency, Politics News

An honest side-by-side analysis of the costs of all health care reform proposals, including the two single-payer bills, should be reviewed by Congress.

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U.S. Pays $2.5 Trillion For Care Costing $912 Billion

bloomberg.com | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Mart, U.S. Health Care, Uninsured, President Obama, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Politics News

The last time a president tried to overhaul U.S. health care, Americans were spending $912 billion on the system and 40 million were uninsured. Today ...

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One Doctor Goes To Great Lengths For Universal Health Insurance

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Doctors, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Uninsured, Universal Health Insurance, Health, Living News

Some people will do anything to advance the cause of universal health care in the United States. One dedicated doctor with blisters and sore muscles ...

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Individual Mandates: Expensive Policy Failure And Bonanza For Insurers And Market Stakeholders

John Geyman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: America’s Health Care Plans, Sustainable System of Universal Access, White House’s Health Care Summit, Uninsured, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Single Payer System, Ahip, Massachusetts Miracle, Politics News

Mandates have not resulted in universal coverage in any state. They are complex, very expensive, not sustainable, and have unforeseen unintended consequences.

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Crisis: Nearly Five Million Adults Have Lost Insurance Since Sept. '08

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Crisis, Uninsured, Survey Health Care, Uninsured Coverage, Gallup Survey, Insurance Coverage, Politics News

As President Barack Obama prepares to address the nation tonight, a new survey provides a boost to his claim that the health care system is at a peril...

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Congress Is Behaving as if the Health Care System Isn't in Tatters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, Congressional Democrats, Small Business, Kathleen Sebelius, Congressional Republicans, Public Option, Bobby Jindal, Jim Demint, Health Care Costs, President Obama, David Gregory, Health Care Quality, Moderate Democrats, Health Insurance, Democrats, Single Payer, Congressional Budget Office, Obama Socialism, Uninsured, National Coalition on Health Care, Health Insurance Companies, Bill Kristol, Michael Steele, Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Universal Health Care, ABC News, Health Care, Obama Poll, Republicans, Politics News

We are either going to get no health care reform or watered-down health care legislation that acts as a bandage, helping some people but ignoring the larger problem creating the pain.

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Caring For The Uninsured in Wise County, VA (Assignment Desk)

Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wise County, Eyes & Ears, Health Care Reform Bill, Uninsured, Service, Volunteer, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Submissions, Health Care, Rural Health Clinic, Healthcare, Wise County Fairgrounds Medical Clinic Wise Va, Wise County Fairgrounds Next to Health Department, Politics News

This weekend, as congressmen, staffers, and lobbyists clamor to pass a bill to provide health coverage to the 75 million under or uninsured, volunteer...

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A Second City Warning to Obama

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Second City, Uninsured, Underinsured, Chicago, Political Communication, Cost Control, Rationing, Health Care Reform, Political Satire, Obama Community Organizer, Morality, Obama, Universal Health Care, Republicans, Chicago News

The fact that Second City comics in the heart of Chicago are successfully playing to GOP-fueled fears of rationing should raise a bright red warning flag at the White House.

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Health Care Rationing? The US Has Been Rationing Care for Years

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Uninsured, Health Care, Obamacare, Health Care Rationing, Health Care Reform, Breast Cancer, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health, Wellness, Living News

I am not sure in which alternate reality these Conservative nay-sayers live, but as a primary care doctor working with uninsured patients, I can assure you that health care has been rationed in the US for years.

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Thousands Turn Out for Health Care Reform

Claudia Ricci | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Michael Jackson, Health Insurance, Uninsured, Public Option, Politics News

If you aren't following the health care debate, you should be. It affects every single individual in the U.S., and the very bedrock of our ailing economy.

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Insuring Taylor's Future

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Coverage, Uninsured, Children, Politics News

Many middle class families with children who have chronic disorders face being wiped out financially because too few private insurance companies cover the medically necessary care they require.

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An Ad Script for Teddy Kennedy on Healthcare Reform

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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In the debate about healthcare reform, why are the loudest voices in the room the ones who seemingly are against all reform? Where are the champions ...

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McConnell and Health Care: Strange Bedfellows

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Sen. McConnell, Public Plan Option, Health Care, Uninsured, Health Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Politics News

With all due respect, Senator McConnell, you don't get it. Your "the sky is falling" approach in discussing a government run plan as a health care plan option for all Americans is mind-boggling.

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For-Profit Health Insurance Is Responsible for Large Cost-Shift to Consumers/Taxpayers

Michele Swenson | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Minimum Benefit Insurance, Health Care Cost-Shift, Dr. David Himmelstein, Massachusetts Health Care Reform, Uninsured, Catastrophic Coverage, Underinsurance, Politics News

False assumptions that drive the current U.S. health care reform debate are often expressed as common buzzwords: Choice, Competition, Government Bureaucracy.

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Insurance CEOs Get Rich While Denying Health Coverage to Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Insurance Program, Texas, Uninsured, Health Insurance, Children's Health, Childrens Health Insurance, Living News

Why should we continue to let children fall between the chasm of profit-driven health insurance companies and income-restrictive Medicaid and CHIP programs?

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Do The Democrats Think We're Stupid in Hollywood? (Yes!)

Richard Walden | Posted 06.01.2009 | Entertainment

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It is pornographic to continue the $5 billion 2008 election campaign just 5 months after we swore in a new President and new Congress.

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5 Places To Get Medical Care When You're Uninsured

wisebread.com | By Tisha Tolar | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Insurance, Medical Care for Uninsured, Uninsured, Personal Health, Health, Living News

With job loss on the rise and many people who can not afford medical insurance on their own, yet don't qualify for state or federal assistance, there ...

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy Part II: Quality Control

Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Uninsured, Hmos, Single Payer, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Politics News

Today, our health care system is less regulated and quality controlled than AIG or the stock market. It is no wonder that it may take our country into bankruptcy in a few years.

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Massive Uninsured Patients Settlement Approved By Judge

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of uninsured patients might qualify for refunds on payments they made to eight Chicago and suburban hospitals under ...

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