Tag: healthcare reform
member name: Deb S.
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July 13, 2009 08:23 AM EDT --
From ACPE Digest The Washington Post (7/13, Alcindor) reports, "Hospital emergency departments across the region are overflowing with patients who have been battered by the recession . . .
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June 30, 2009 07:22 AM EDT --
From ACPE Digest:
On the front page of its Health section, the Washington Post /Kaiser Health News (6/30, HE1, Kenen) reports that patients who "leave the hospital, only to boomerang . . .
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August 03, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
A father and son interview explains how McAllen, a small town in Texas could become the center of the healthcare reform controversy. A month or so ago, Dr. Gawande wrote an op ed piece in the New Yorker . . .
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September 09, 2009 07:59 AM EDT --
From AHIP: Inside Health Reform
August 12, 2009
Across the country, states with a libertarian bend -- some of which had been warming up to the more socially permissive Democratic . . .
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August 27, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Read best-selling author Jacqueline Winspear's take on the British National Health Service .
Apparently many Brits are so upset with the criticism of their system by Americans that thousands have been . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
from Washington Post
December 30, 2008
Dolly Sweet, 77, has battled cancer more than once. She's a fighter. But when
her doctor recently prescribed a medication that cost $35,000 . . .
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May 22, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
From ACPE Digest In the New York Times (5/22, A29), op-ed columnist Paul Krugman asserts that "less than two weeks" since the healthcare industry "made a big show of working with President . . .
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July 12, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
After years of spinning the truth about healthcare insurance in this country, Wendell Potter has emerged in retirement as the ultimate whistleblower. Although he began his career as a newspaper reporter . . .
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May 22, 2009 10:00 AM EDT --
From ACPE digest
The (5/22, Montgomery) reports that according to "key Democrats," Congress is increasingly likely to tax employee-based health insurance in order to pay for healthcare . . .
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July 01, 2009 01:08 PM EDT --
From: Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
July 01, 2009
Irregular heartbeat. Prostate cancer. Back pain. Hearing loss. The government is about to spend millions to try to uncover . . .
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July 02, 2009 09:26 PM EDT --
From ACPE Digest: The Wall Street Journal (7/2, Zhang) reports, "The Obama administration said Wednesday that it plans to cut Medicare payments for imaging services and specialists, . . .
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June 14, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
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June 12, 2009 From AHIP Digest
Despite spending more money than any other country on health care, the United States does not lead the world in life expectancy , a long-known . . .
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May 12, 2009 04:19 PM EDT --
The New York Times (5/12, Calmes) reports, "Struggling to find ways to pay for the president's signature healthcare overhaul, the administration on Monday proposed to raise nearly . . .
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June 09, 2009 01:45 PM EDT --
From ACPE Digest:
Bloomberg News (6/9, Litvan) reports that a group of Senate Republicans, including Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA), Mike Enzi (R-WY), and all Republican members of the Senate . . .
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September 17, 2009 10:14 AM EDT --
Media coverage of Sen. Max Baucus' (D-MT) healthcare reform proposal, which included stories on all three network newscasts, focuses on the negative reception afforded the plan by key lawmakers . . .
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July 23, 2009 01:37 PM EDT --
Read this It simplifies what is in the two key bills put out by the Dems.
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNNMoney.com senior writer
On Tuesday July 21, 2009, 3:29 pm EDT
Lawmakers . . .
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July 23, 2009 01:03 PM EDT --
The Wall Street Journal (7/23, Fuhrmans) reports that data indicate that "chronically ill patients in the last two years of life cost Medicare $55,000 on average when they are treated . . .
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August 27, 2009 09:18 AM EDT --
From ACPE DIGEST
From the temporary loss of his critical vote to that of his negotiating skills, Sen. Edward Kennedy's death is being cast as a blow to the President's healthcare . . .
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