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New on 07/23/2010 Repeal the Bill

07/23/2010 -

Repeal the Bill - another 150 sign up! A plan that would enable members of the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal Obamacare – whether health care takeover advocate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants it or not – is continuing to gain momentum.

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New on 07/23/2010 The Hermanator - Could the answer be a pizza guy?

07/23/2010 -

"We need a realistic candidate to run on the Republican ticket who can beat Barack Obama – not just beat the Democrats," Herman Cain, an Atlanta radio talk-show host, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and 2004 Senate seeker, told WND. "We've also got to beat Barack Obama."

He added, "Obama is a master of rhetoric. He is a master of deceptive language. And any white candidate who runs against him will be up against the race card. I take the race card off the table."

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Solo practices let doctors spend more time with patients

01/19/2010 -

Solo practices let doctors spend more time with patients, by Chris Swingle satff writer, Democrat and Chronicle.com, January 19, 2010 - When Dr. Linda Lee sees patients, she brings them from the waiting room, typically spends a half hour with them, cleans up the exam room and submits the insurance claims online. She's the one who returns phone voicemails, and she gives patients her cell phone number for urgent after-hours needs.

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They still don't get it

01/18/2010 -

The American Spectator, AMSPECBLOG, They Still Don’t Get It, By Greg Scandlen, 1.17.10 - I don’t know Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA). Don’t know a thing about him. But if an article about his recent town hall meeting on health care is accurate, and if he is representative of other Congressional Republicans, it looks like they haven’t learned a damned thing over the past year of frenzied debate.

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McConnell: Mass. Senate race is "referendum on national health care bill'

01/18/2010 -

Politico Live, January 17, 2010, McConnell: Mass. Senate race is "referendum on national health care bill', Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Tuesday's Senate election in Massachusetts is a "referendum on the national health care bill."

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From Bay State to Red State

01/18/2010 -

The New York Times, January 15,2010, Opinionator, From Bay State to Red State, by Tobin Harshaw -Strike One: “The mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists … They’re gone. They’re not there anymore.” 

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Health Talks in Overdrive With Obama Pushing

01/15/2010 -

Health Talks in Overdrive With Obama Pushing, Associated Press, Erica Werner, January 15, 2010 - President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats stand within days if not hours of striking final deals on historic health care legislation after key labor unions won concessions and pledged their support.

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United Health Care's Soft Approach

12/30/2009 -

Health Care Modernization News Flash, United Health Care, Volume 1, Issue 15, December 28, 2009. The following was included at the beginning of the email sent to the industry and does not appear in the attached article:

Our Perspective - Since the beginning of the reform debate we have advocated for comprehensive changes to the health care system that would expand coverage, reduce costs, and improve quality.  Our view has not changed.

The current legislation reflects some of the market reforms we have advanced that would not only expand access but ensure that the cost of coverage is affordable for everyone.   However, we believe there is more that can, and should be done, to slow the growth of medical costs and increase the likelihood that reform results in a health care system that is sustainable over time. 

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The Factors Fueling Rising Healthcare Costs 2008

12/23/2009 -

The Factors Fueling Rising Healthcare Costs 2008, Price, Waterhouse, Coopers, Commissioned by AHIP, December 2008.

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AHIP RELEASES NEW STUDY ABOUT ADVANTAGES OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE

12/16/2009 -

AHIP Center for Policy and Reasearch, December 2009, Working Paper: Comparison of Utilization in Two Large Multi-State Medicare Advantage HMOs and Medicare Fee-For-Service in the Same Service Area

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Democratic Freshman Get It

12/16/2009 -

New York Times, December 3, 2009, Freshman Democrates Prepare Amendment on Cost Containment, by David M. Herszenhorn, A group of freshmen Democratic senators said on Thursday that they were preparing an amendment aimed at strengthening the cost-containment measures in the legislation. Among their proposals is that a new independent commission, responsible for identifying potential cost savings in Medicare, also be directed to look at the broader health care system and to make recommendations for voluntary steps that could be taken by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to lower costs.

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The Medicaid Nuclear Option

12/09/2009 -

The Medicaid Nuclear Option, By Michael G. Franc, December 9, 2009- Think Medicaid is wasteful? Wait till you see what comes next, courtesy the House bill.

 

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U.S. Healthcare Companies have had a healthy decade

12/01/2009 -

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch)By Russ Britt, November 19, 2009, -- It's been a tough 10 years for Corporate America, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the nation's biggest health-care firms.

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TennCare may curtail coverage to reduce costs

11/20/2009 -

People covered by TennCare may face new limits on their coverage and reductions in their benefits next year, under a plan unveiled Wednesday to help slice state spending. TennCare officials said that they could impose a new $10,000 annual cap on hospital coverage for the
1.2 million state residents enrolled in the program.

 

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House health care bill has nowhere to go in Senate

11/09/2009 -

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – Sun Nov 8, 4:57 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

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The Worst Bill Ever

11/06/2009 -

WSJ, November 1, 2009, Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.

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Costs Keep Rising in Massachusetts

11/06/2009 -

WSJ, October 27, 2009, Grace-Marie Turner, (Click Here for related material from the Boston Medical Center) Three years after Massachusetts enacted its sweeping health-reform legislation, rising health costs continue to bedevil the state and threaten to derail reform efforts. Despite a significant restructuring of the state's health sector and dominance of nonprofit health plans, Massachusetts still has the highest health-insurance costs in the nation, averaging $13,788 for a family, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

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Could 'Medical Homes' Bring Order to Health Care?

10/29/2009 -

Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, October 29, 2009 - A thousand miles from the health care debate in Washington, Dr. Don Klitgaard and his colleagues are carrying out their own reform in a small Iowa community.

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Trick Or Treat: Reid’s Halloween Health-Care Horror?

10/20/2009 -

A senior but unnamed Mr. Reid aide told Cybercast News Service reporter Nicholas Ballasy that the Senate majority leader is considering using an already-passed House bill as a skeleton on which he will hang the final version of the Senate’s healthcare reform bill that the senator is responsible for creating, rather than bringing it to the Senate floor in the customary manner.

As an editorial comment it is important to note that this is not the first time this approach has been used to push forward a health care reform. The last time the initiative was called, "Medicare and Medicaid" in July of 1965. Please click here to read the work of Economics professor, Charlotte Twight, of Boise State University, a well know contributor to the CATO Institute and author. In particular read pages 326-327 of this document. Better yet read the entire article and note the references documented on every page. We are about to repeat history. Medicare and Medicaid were devised behind closed doors and were passed as an amendment to another bill.  Sound familiar?

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Health In Numbers

10/09/2009 -

Investors.com Editorial, 10-08-09. Democrats are touting the Congressional Budget Office's $829 billion cost estimate as a clincher for a government takeover of our medical system. They should read all 13 pages of the CBO critique.

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Eight Thoughts on CBO [Tevi Troy] Eight Thoughts on CBO [Tevi Troy] Eight Thoughts on CBO

10/09/2009 -

Eight Thoughts on CBO   [Tevi Troy] I've finished reading through the CBO score of the Finance Committee package, and here are some preliminary thoughts:

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Feeding at the Trough

10/09/2009 -

Feeding at the Trough, Why much of the health-care industry is backing Obamacare.
by Stanley Goldfarb, 10/07/2009 12:00:00 AM

 

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Health Care’s Swiss Solution

10/09/2009 -

Health Care’s Swiss Solution,Fostering competition among insurers has empowered consumers and controlled costs, Alphonse Crespo, Philip Stevens, 2 October 2009

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Health Care/Chronic Alert

10/09/2009 -

Health Alert/Chronic Care by John Goodman, June 29, 2009 John Goodman's Health Policy Blog.  By some estimates, more than half of US health care spending is for patients with chronic conditions. Fundamentally, there are two ways to deal with chronic care. The current approach is a nonmarket approach, and it has the following 10 characteristics:

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Grassley: The 'Untold Story' of the CBO Report

10/09/2009 -

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R., Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, tells NRO that the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) score of the health-care bill sponsored by committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.) has “a huge, untold story.”

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The Real Cost of the Baucus Bill: $2 Trillion+

10/09/2009 -

The Real Cost of the Baucus Bill: $2 Trillion+, Thursday, October 8, 2009, Michael D. Tanner, senior fellow Cato Institute  The CBO scoring makes it clear that the Baucus bill's reduction in future budget deficits comes not from controlling government spending or reducing health care costs, but because of a rapid escalation in tax revenues.

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