Health Insurance Lobby Speaks Out
Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, told reporters during an August 4 conference call that critics of private health insurance providers...
Healthcare
All Doped Up
Between 1996 and 2005, Reuters reports, the use of anti-depressants doubled to nearly 10 percent of the American population. In 1996, the figure...
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Abortion and Public Health Insurance
Associated Press reported on August 5 that “health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a...
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Obama Claims “Historic Step” on Health Reform
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31-28 on August 31 to approve its version of healthcare reform. “This historic step moves us...
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Health Reform & Illegal Immigration
“Health care reform could end up bailing out employers who hire illegal immigrants and skimp on their health benefits,” Fox News reported on...
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Obama’s Doctor Pessimistic on Reform
The Huffington Post reported on July 29 that Dr. David Scheiner, a physician who has treated Barack Obama for more than 20 years,...
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Blue Dog Dems Strike Deal on Health Care
Members of a coalition of moderate House Democrats called the “Blue Dogs” have struck a deal to move Obama’s health care legislation forward after...
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Defense Officials Worry About H1N1 Outbreak This Fall
Defense Department officials, in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are considering a proposal whose stated purpose is to assist civilian...
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CBO on House Democrats’ Health Reform Plan
The Congressional Budget Office on July 26 published a preliminary analysis of the House Democrats’ healthcare reform proposal known as America’s Affordable Health...
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Is Obama Suppressing Deficit Info to Push Healthcare?
The lead in the Associated Press story reads: “The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions...
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Health Reform Biased Against Seniors
Dr. John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog for July 22 makes clear the harsh reality that the only way for President Barack Obama’s version...
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What Obama Doesn’t Know About Healthcare Can Hurt Us
The good news is that President Obama’s healthcare bill has little chance of passing. The bad news is that the bill may pass,...
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GOP Charts Healthcare Bureaucracy
House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio held a press briefing on July 15 to highlight a chart illustrating the labyrinthine bureaucracy that...
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Obama Sells $1 Trillion Health Care Spending Increase as Deficit Control
President Obama has decided to sell a government-directed healthcare system as a deficit control measure. “If we do not control these costs” of...
Read moreObama’s Deceptive Government Takeover of Healthcare
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer, universal healthcare plan.... That’s what I’d like to see, but as all of...
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