By Andis Robeznieks |
March 19, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Near the end of a more than one hour discussion on federal healthcare reform legislation at the American Medical Group Association's annual meeting... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 19, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The American Medical Association supports the sweeping $940 billion healthcare reform bill scheduled for consideration on the House floor on Sunday,... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 19, 2010
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Basic Web Registration House Democrats waxed optimistic that healthcare reform legislation will pass their chamber this Sunday, as more undecided lawmakers in the party... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Senior House Democrats said that a legislative package aimed at changing the way healthcare is delivered and paid for would cost roughly $940 billion... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The AFL-CIO has decided to support the Democrats’ sweeping health reform legislation, its president Richard Trumka said during a teleconference. FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer outlined a rare weekend schedule for lawmakers in the House, with a vote on a $940 billion health overhaul package... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration House and Senate Republicans met to strategize on killing the Democrat's $940 billion healthcare package that's slated for a final vote in the House... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Citing the very future of Barack Obama's presidency and the urgent needs of his own constituents, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a strident critic of... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration In a week that could see a conclusive vote on healthcare in the House, the two parties spent Tuesday sharpening their final messages, with Democrats... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Democrats will not be breaking any rules if they decide to approve the Senate healthcare reform bill through a no-vote process, House Majority Leader... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration In a move more about procedure rather than policy, the House Budget Committee voted 21-16 to initiate the first step in a legislative process that... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 11, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Senate's sweeping health reform bill would cost $875 billion and reduce the deficit by $118 billion over 10 years, according to revised estimates... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 11, 2010
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Basic Web Registration House Democrats said they were frustrated because they had not yet seen legislative text and an official pricetag for a group of healthcare measures... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 10, 2010
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Free Access The Senate voted 62-36 to approve a $138 billion bill that would temporarily prevent Medicare payment cuts to doctors as well as extend federal... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius challenged the insurance industry to put aside its misgivings about pending healthcare reform legislation and work... FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch |
March 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama plans to announce an expansion of payment recapture audits to fight waste and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and other government... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 09, 2010
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Basic Web Registration A top Democrat distanced the House from a March 18 deadline to pass healthcare overhaul legislation, saying the plan is to move swiftly but not to... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 09, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Creating jobs takes precedence over healthcare reform, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said during a presentation at the National Association of Health... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
March 08, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The nation's top healthcare official said that hospitals, physicians and other providers would be exempt from having to publicly justify cost... FULL STORY »
By Jennifer Lubell |
March 08, 2010
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Basic Web Registration HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a letter to major insurance companies asked them to follow up on a request she made to the industry at the White... FULL STORY »
By the Associated Press |
March 19, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's healthcare vote in stark terms, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House... FULL STORY »
By Politico.com |
March 18, 2010
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Free Access With his healthcare initiative hanging in the balance on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama told Fox News that he and other Americans don't care... FULL STORY »
By the Associated Press |
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors about healthcare legislation approaching a final vote in Congress,... FULL STORY »
By Time |
March 15, 2010
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Free Access In 2000, Barack Obama tried to unseat incumbent Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush in a Democratic primary. The thumping Obama received—Rush got... FULL STORY »
By the Associated Press |
March 12, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama is postponing his long-scheduled Asian trip for a few days to make a final push for passage of historic legislation... FULL STORY »
By Boston Globe |
March 11, 2010
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Free Access President Obama slammed the health insurance industry and Republicans yesterday as the enemies of healthcare overhaul. But the president's immediate... FULL STORY »
By the Associated Press |
March 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama says Washington for too long has accepted billions of dollars in healthcare fraud and abuse as simply the cost of doing... FULL STORY »
By the Associated Press |
March 07, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday that healthcare reform would have been "dead on arrival" if the White House had sent a finished... FULL STORY »
March 05, 2010
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Free Access As President Barack Obama began pushing for a prompt vote on his health initiative, lobbyists and activist groups launched advertising and... FULL STORY »
By Reuters |
March 04, 2010
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Free Access A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan unless it... FULL STORY »
By Associated Press |
February 28, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The White House's top healthcare official is optimistic that Democrats will have the votes to pass a major healthcare overhaul. FULL STORY »
By San Francisco Chronicle |
February 23, 2010
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Free Access A California insurer's steep rate hike on individual health insurance plans has been a gift to President Obama, breathing life into Democratic health... FULL STORY »
By Matthew DoBias |
February 22, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Republicans were quick to hit back at the Obama administration after the White House today released a $950 billion proposal to reshape the U.S. FULL STORY »
March 19, 2010
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Basic Web Registration This is reason enough to drop out of the AMA if you belong, or refuse to join if you don't. How can an organization representing such a small... FULL STORY »
March 19, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Congressional Budget Office can only work with the data that are given to them. They can't say, “Wait a minute, your premise is flawed... FULL STORY »
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration We the physicians are like the unions representing the steelworkers of the '60s, and the auto workers of the '80s, blind to the fiscal realities of... FULL STORY »
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Before we add 40 million more to the insurance rolls through the president's plan—and add another trillion dollars of debt to this... FULL STORY »
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration We are concerned about the future of the CMS, but I project the insurance companies will be the ones putting us out of business first. What a shame... FULL STORY »
March 12, 2010
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Basic Web Registration When examined through the lens of a jobs bill, the current healthcare proposal can only be viewed as an impediment to job creation, at best, or a job... FULL STORY »
March 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The president needs to be aggressively pushing a jobs bill along with healthcare. This country is smart enough to tackle both difficult issues at... FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Game-changing tax laws were passed via reconciliation under former administrations, so healthcare legislation is not a first. While not true reform,... FULL STORY »
March 05, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The American public expects its elected officials to ensure their safety and well-being. Now is the time to demonstrate this by having the moral... FULL STORY »
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration So, we are going to pass the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in more than 40 years, something that many have been trying to... FULL STORY »
February 26, 2010
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Basic Web Registration It is extremely arrogant on the part of the president and his colleagues—both Democrat and Republican alike—to waste one day of Senate... FULL STORY »
February 24, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama's plan is a “Trojan horse” and will not only further bankrupt our economy, but also take away our freedom, depress... FULL STORY »
February 23, 2010
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Basic Web Registration If the Democrats are serious about passing a bipartisan healthcare system overhaul law, they need to incorporate the following into the current... FULL STORY »
February 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Health insurance does not mean healthcare, as insurance companies are only in business to make money, and the easiest way to make money for their... FULL STORY »
February 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration This proposal is merely the latest ruse by the White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress to get a bill—any bill—passed, so that... FULL STORY »
February 11, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Bipartisanship is not the same as caving in to President Barack Obama's wants. Trying to ram a bill through when you have 60 senators is not the same... FULL STORY »
February 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Why should insurance companies and Major League Baseball be the only two entities in the U.S. exempt from antitrust violations? FULL STORY »
January 25, 2010
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Basic Web Registration If Nancy Pelosi can't get a majority of the House to pass the Senate bill, which matches the House bill in 80% to 90% of the key provisions, then she... FULL STORY »
January 21, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Thank the Lord for Massachusetts. Stopping President Barack Obama's socialist agenda has pulled this country back from the edge of disaster. People... FULL STORY »
By David Gordon |
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The main problem with our healthcare system is that healthcare, as we practice it, is too expensive, and it has not gotten less expensive over time. FULL STORY »
By Deeana Laurie Jang |
March 11, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama has urged lawmakers to put aside partisan differences and pass his health reform plan, saying it would throw a critical safety... FULL STORY »
By Marvin Wool |
February 25, 2010
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Basic Web Registration President Barack Obama has now learned the hard way that healthcare reform is too important to leave to Congress. He has also admitted, sort of, that... FULL STORY »
By Allan J. Lazar |
February 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Regardless of the outcome of the national debate about health reform, two takeaways for hospitals already are certain: Costs must be managed, and... FULL STORY »
By Herbert Pardes |
January 12, 2010
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Basic Web Registration There are many care-based reasons why some hospitals cost more. But, so far, the Senate healthcare reform legislation has not taken all of these... FULL STORY »
By G. Edward Tucker Jr.
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January 05, 2010
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Basic Web Registration If healthcare is a right, there is also an individual responsibility. Individuals must pay for the right to healthcare through taxes, insurance... FULL STORY »
By Jonathan Leviss |
December 29, 2009
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Basic Web Registration For many physicians, computerized provider order entry, electronic health records and other technical aspects of healthcare... FULL STORY »
By Mitch Goldman and Howard Wizig |
December 08, 2009
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Basic Web Registration Instead of a single government-run public option or government funded “co-op” in a given market, we propose that Congress provide seed... FULL STORY »
By Douglas Hastings |
December 03, 2009
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Basic Web Registration In both the current Senate and House versions of healthcare reform legislation, there are comprehensive proposals with significant implications for... FULL STORY »
By Ronald Jensen |
December 01, 2009
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Basic Web Registration Over the course of their career, medical professionals often make decisions that permanently affect the lives of their patients. For me, as a doctor... FULL STORY »
By Tom Enders |
November 17, 2009
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Basic Web Registration The future is looking bleak for many provider organizations. The healthcare reform train is barreling down the track and the administration's... FULL STORY »
By Bruce Roberts and Ricky Guidry |
November 12, 2009
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Basic Web Registration In medicine, as in life, sometimes an answer is so obvious it gets overlooked. That's about how community pharmacists feel about the healthcare... FULL STORY »
By Harvey Billig |
November 03, 2009
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Basic Web Registration With the pending expansion of healthcare insurance to millions of newly insured, it is time to re-examine the delivery system if one wants true... FULL STORY »
By John Kenagy |
October 15, 2009
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Basic Web Registration Everyone who has worked in a large, complex organization has run up against unmanageable “elephants in the room”—unresolved issues,... FULL STORY »
By John Newport |
October 08, 2009
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Basic Web Registration No one is satisfied with our current healthcare system, which eats up 17% of our Gross Domestic Product at a cost of more than $2 trillion per year,... FULL STORY »
By Larry Van Horn |
October 06, 2009
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Basic Web Registration I'm a balding, middle-aged, overweight American male. I have borderline hypertension and high cholesterol. I don't like to exercise, and I enjoy... FULL STORY »
By Emerson Smith |
September 22, 2009
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Basic Web Registration This nation is in a fist-fighting, name-calling turmoil over healthcare system deficiencies. And people are demanding change, with the entire world... FULL STORY »
By James Bradwell |
September 17, 2009
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Basic Web Registration While reducing the cost of healthcare appears to have been one of the original impetuses behind the reform movement, it appears to have taken a back... FULL STORY »
By Larry Weinrauch |
September 15, 2009
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Basic Web Registration As two parties debate their ideology deriding each other as uncontrolled free market as opposed to socialism, it becomes apparent that pragmatism... FULL STORY »
By James Anderson |
September 10, 2009
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Basic Web Registration Congress has returned to Washington focused on various proposals to reform healthcare, trying to assuage public concerns about costs, access and... FULL STORY »
