Takeover health care reform. Medical search. Frequent questions

The US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to pass a landmark healthcare reform bill at the heart of President Barack Obama's agenda. (bbc.co.uk)
Still, it's a good precis for those who still don't really understand what Obama's "reforms" really are. (mu.nu)
The attempt to dismiss the Texas jobs record seems to have abated, at least for now, but the episode shouldn't pass without mentioning the other great liberal theme: More than a quarter of the Lone Star State's people lack health insurance, and supposedly this is proof that Governor Rick Perry hates the poor, as well as vindicating President Obama's health-care plan. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
There, Christie went after people comparing Romney's health care reform in Massachusetts to Obama's national health care law. (politifact.com)
While many of Obama's reform efforts, like the health care law, are not nearly as radical as many of us on the left would advocate, they do represent a step forward, crucial for mobilizing and unifying the class and social forces necessary to prevent any fascist takeover. (opednews.com)
From President Obama's birthplace and "tax cuts that pay for themselves" to death panels, a government takeover of health care and so much other mythmaking, virtually every article of conservative faith is a fraud. (perrspectives.com)
Greg Sargent , who called his "astonishing," added, "The key here is that the question was specifically worded to mirror Palin's assertion that Obama's death panel will evaluate a person's right to medical care based on whether they're productive in society . (washingtonmonthly.com)
The Romney speech was welcomed by the Obama White House, which chose to interpret it as a prominent GOP candidate's endorsement of Obama's basic health care approach, which it clearly is. (yated.com)

I also described how AHIP offices have often been Command Central for developing and implementing coordinated efforts to derail health care reform efforts in the past, and how the organization helped shape major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which Congress passed last year. (prwatch.org)
I am now watching how AHIP is getting Obama administration officials to write the regulations required by the Affordable Care Act in ways that benefit insurance companies more than consumers. (prwatch.org)
Earlier this summer, the administration announced rules pertaining to new rights we supposedly have now, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, to appeal decisions made by insurers that don't go our way. (prwatch.org)
You've heard it time and again: The Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the health care system, an overweening piece of legislation that President Barack Obama shoved down the throats of a balky public on a party-line vote. (vox.com)
The Affordable Care Act has already changed the lives of millions of Americans for the better. (barbrastreisand.com)
So why has the messaging on behalf of one of the most dramatic public reforms of our lifetimes, the federal Affordable Care Act, been so incompetent? (barbrastreisand.com)
Q: Support or Repeal Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as ObamaCare? (ontheissues.org)
Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act failed to effectively address the increasing cost of providing care. (ontheissues.org)
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to repeal provisions establishing and appropriating funds to the Prevention and Public Health Fund (a Fund to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs). (ontheissues.org)
Signup for the Affordable Care Act begins tomorrow, but Saturday Night Live offered its take over the weekend on why health care reform is so necessary. (spokesman.com)
There's taking on the risk of participating in the public exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act that are now (if quite shakily) available to consumers. (cfo.com)
Our CEO felt we weren't taking advantage of some synergies that we could have, and also that because we're entering a chaotic couple of years with the Affordable Care Act, it would be useful to get finance and actuarial more closely integrated. (cfo.com)
One of the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is that instead of one national exchange (as progressives in the House had hoped to establish), we will have 50 state-level exchanges (possibly more if states decide to establish separate individual and group plan exchanges). (calitics.com)
As I have repeatedly discussed , the single most important change that the Affordable Care Act made was to expand Medicaid to Medicare reimbursement levels (thus providing an incentive for most doctors, hospitals, and clinics to accept Medicaid patients) and to expand Medicaid coverage to everyone within 133% of poverty. (calitics.com)
In last week's post, I brought up the failures of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or as many refer to it as "ObamaCare") in controlling health care costs in addition to many other failures . (sayanythingblog.com)

Former Vice President Joe Biden has reiterated his opposition to any health reform plan that would scrap ObamaCare, including "Medicare-for-all. (pacificresearch.org)
Instead, Biden proposed expanding ObamaCare to include a "public option," wherein individuals could buy a government-sponsored health plan. (pacificresearch.org)
That is the embarrassing similarity between Obamacare and Romney's own Massachusetts health care plan which he instituted as governor five years ago. (yated.com)
Rather than exposing himself to the same kind of criticism now, Romney made a speech last week which defended his Massachusetts health plan, while trying to differentiate it from Obamacare, which he branded a failure. (yated.com)
In his speech, Romney argued that Obamacare should be repealed because health care reform should be left up to the individual states. (yated.com)
He called Obamacare a federal "power grab" and a "government takeover of health care. (yated.com)

The reconciliation bill is the package of 'fixes' to the Senate health care bill that made it more attractive to balking House Democrats. (cnn.com)
Worse yet, the Democrats put the federal government in charge of your personal health care decisions. (house.gov)
In addition, many of the insurance commissioners were Democrats and they felt obligated to support this Democratic reform package. (sayanythingblog.com)
Moderate Democrats have seized on the public option as a less disruptive brand of health care reform than Medicare-for-all. (pacificresearch.org)
Republicans, unlike Democrats and independents, also believe reform would "require elderly patients to meet with government officials to discuss 'end of life' options including euthanasia," and consider reform to be a government "takeover" of the health care system. (washingtonmonthly.com)
Then again, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has pledged to cancel the Democrats' planned festivities, preventing what he and other opponents have described as a "government takeover" of the healthcare system. (the-hospitalist.org)

It extends coverage to 32 million more Americans, and marks the biggest change to the US healthcare system in decades. (bbc.co.uk)
Under the legislation, health insurance will be extended to nearly all Americans, new taxes will be imposed on the wealthy, and restrictive insurance practices such as refusing to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions will be outlawed. (bbc.co.uk)
We will be joining those who established Social Security, Medicare and now, tonight, healthcare for all Americans,' she said, referring to the government's pension programme and health insurance for the elderly, established nearly 50 years ago. (bbc.co.uk)
Today, more than one-third of all Americans are enrolled in a health benefit plan owned and operated by just five large insurers -- a group that last year hauled in nearly $12 billion in profits. (prwatch.org)
Their business practices, condoned by investors and Wall Street analysts alike, have contributed to the growing number of Americans without health insurance -- more than 50 million of us at last count. (prwatch.org)
Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care. (mu.nu)
Provisions of the 2010 healthcare reform have already changed the lives of millions of Americans for the better. (barbrastreisand.com)
For many Americans, health insurance premiums will rise. (iwf.org)
Americans will begin paying for health care reform legislation immediately, through higher taxes, fees and penalties, but don't actually begin receiving benefits until 2014. (iwf.org)
While there are several parts of the law that I do support, such as eliminating spending caps on essential benefits, preventing insurers from unjustly cancelling policies, closing the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole," and increasing wellness incentives, the President's health care reform law does not effectively address any of the cost issues that prevent Americans from receiving appropriate health care. (ontheissues.org)
The second myth is that Americans spend too much on health care. (pacificresearch.org)
Most Americans agree we need health care reform. (zifflaw.com)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the health care vote is personal to millions of Americans. (cnn.com)
Speaker Pelosi's $1 trillion government-takeover of health care will force millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance, increase premiums and impose massive new taxes and mandates on employers, especially small businesses. (house.gov)
Republicans must be for the right kind of reform that protects the quality of healthcare for all Americans. (liberalvaluesblog.com)
Respondents were asked whether the reform proposals under consideration would create "death panels" that would dictate medical care based on Americans' "productivity in society. (washingtonmonthly.com)

Mind you, with allowing cross-state insurance purchase and passing tort reform, we could probably drop prices by 10% with the stroke of a pen. (mu.nu)
I support health care reform that allows consumers to purchase insurance across state lines, and I believe that tort reform will reduce health care costs further. (ontheissues.org)
Tort reform would help curb the number of junk lawsuits filed against doctors. (ontheissues.org)
One subject on which our opinions vary is tort reform and the cost of health care in America. (zifflaw.com)
Start with tort reform. (zifflaw.com)
Although tort reform has the potential to save money - by allowing doctors to save negligible amounts of money in insurance premiums - it is much more likely to lead to increased costs for the rest of us. (zifflaw.com)

There are better ways to address the nation's health care woes without a wholesale government takeover. (iwf.org)
Created in February 2010, the panel, officially known as the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was charged with recommending measures to address the nation's debt problem. (politifact.com)

This legislation will not fix everything that ails our healthcare system, but it moves us decisively in the right direction,' he said. (bbc.co.uk)
No legislation built on a foundation of handouts, earmarks, and shameless payoffs can be expected to coherently address the long-term drivers of health care costs. (iwf.org)
Lawmakers are voting on the health care legislation. (cnn.com)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the health care legislation for its ability to 'unleash tremendous entrepreneurial power into our economy. (cnn.com)
CNN's Ed Henry reports: In his remarks after the health care vote, President Obama will be blunt about casting the House's expected passage of his health care legislation as an achievement of historic proportions that shows he's starting to deliver on the dramatic change he promised on the campaign trail, according to Democratic officials familiar with the planned remarks. (cnn.com)
The legislation, which Ayer helped shepherd through the Senate Health and Welfare Committee (which she chairs), now goes to conference committee, where House and Senate negotiators are expected to easily reconcile differences. (addisonindependent.com)
The health care reform legislation establishes a Green Mountain Care Board that, as of July 2011, will be charged with planning for a single-payer system, including the benefit package, payment methodology and budget. (addisonindependent.com)
However, if the progressive movement can be clever and strategic for a second, and is willing to work from within rather than to cry defeat, we can actually work on the state level to move the goalposts of the health care debate in the direction of single-payer before we even get to the next round of national legislation. (calitics.com)
One of the principal aims of the current health care legislation is to improve the quality of care. (nybooks.com)
A resolution to the heated back-and-forth should arrive by Thanksgiving in the form of meaningful healthcare legislation, according to Vice President Joe Biden. (the-hospitalist.org)

Only 1 in 4 respondents knew that the act already has eliminated co-pays for preventive care and lowered prescription costs for Medicare members. (barbrastreisand.com)
But in reality, these Medicare cuts we lead to reduced access to and quality of care. (iwf.org)
Sen. Ayotte, R-NH]: We have 3 choices when it comes to addressing rising health care costs in Medicare. (ontheissues.org)
We do that by: 1) getting rid of junk lawsuits that force doctors to order unnecessary tests and drive up costs, 2) reforming outdated health insurance regulations so small employers and individuals get tax incentives and the purchasing power like those of large corporations, and 3) eliminating the waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars every year. (house.gov)
Using new revenue from the Medicare tax to fund health care reform would be as illogical as raising the federal gas tax, which funds highway construction and maintenance, to pay for a new welfare entitlement. (hawaiireporter.com)
In most cases, public option proponents envision reimbursing health care providers at or around the level Medicare does. (pacificresearch.org)
In fact, most public option proposals explicitly require health care providers who participate in the existing Medicare program to accept beneficiaries of the new government plan. (pacificresearch.org)
In other words, like Medicare-for-all, a public option would deliver single-payer health care, just a bit more slowly. (pacificresearch.org)
He thinks: "We need to repeal this jobs-killing government takeover of health care and enact real reforms…without destroying jobs, raising taxes, cutting Medicare to create a new entitlement program or saddling our children and grandchildren with trillions in new debt. (hermentorcenter.com)

Speaking moments before the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the healthcare reform honoured the nation's traditions. (bbc.co.uk)

President Obama identified overhauling the healthcare system as his priority and he's got what he wanted, a victory that eluded Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. (bbc.co.uk)
In my book, Deadly Spin , I wrote about how the "Wall Street takeover" of the American health care system has created many of the problems mentioned in the Tumblr site. (prwatch.org)
The key to making health care more affordable lies with increasing competition and eliminating unnecessary overhead costs on the system, not with a new government takeover of the health care system. (ontheissues.org)
America's health care system is plagued by a constant stream of frivolous lawsuits that result in an unnecessary inflation of health care costs. (ontheissues.org)
Health care "reform" is in the air, but to its leading advocates, that means a government takeover of the medical system. (pacificresearch.org)
She writes: "When we talk about re-tooling our health care, we should be careful to also recognize what is good about the current system. (pacificresearch.org)
The phrase "hospital system" connotes a sense of limitation and constraint in today's healthcare environment, in which successful systems are expected to include surgery centers, physician groups, home health agencies, rehabilitation facilities and sometimes even health plans. (beckershospitalreview.com)
Some hospital and health system leaders are choosing to take the reigns now , however. (beckershospitalreview.com)
An organization doesn't want to redefine its strategy as a health system too early or too late. (beckershospitalreview.com)
Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. (thehealthcareblog.com)
I believe the the policies of his administration have done a terrible job of covering the uninsured and improving the health care system, but that's not the same thing. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
Obama said the reform plan won't fix everything wrong with the nation's health care system, 'but it moves us decisively in the right direction. (cnn.com)
Governor Romney did not raise one tax in doing what he did in trying to improve the health care system in Massachusetts. (politifact.com)
Canada regularly sends premature babies to be cared for in the U.S. Cancer survival rates are much lower in countries where the government controls the health care system. (house.gov)
The U.S. Senate recently released its long-awaited proposal for a government-run hostile takeover of the entire U.S. health care system. (hawaiireporter.com)
MIDDLEBURY - Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Weybridge, received a lot of feedback on Tuesday in wake of the Senate's passage, by a 21-9 vote, of a bill that lays the foundation for a single-payer health care system in Vermont. (addisonindependent.com)
Giard acknowledged the new law will bring some substantial change to the state's health care system. (addisonindependent.com)
This was one of the many steps we have to take to reform our health care system. (addisonindependent.com)
Proponents of H.202 advanced a single-payer health care system as a way to curb rampant annual increases in health insurance premiums. (addisonindependent.com)
They also advanced single-payer as a system that would boost business growth in Vermont by taking the responsibility of health care off employers and placing it with individuals in a benefit that would follow them from job to job. (addisonindependent.com)
Children's of Alabama , a nonprofit pediatric health system based in Birmingham, has a comprehensive behavioral health program that treats all psychiatric diagnoses and includes 44 inpatient beds for children ages 4-18. (ajc.com)
The system also offers outpatient care at two locations that provide psychiatry, psychology, counseling and testing services for patients ages 3-18. (ajc.com)
In addition, the system operates a Psychiatric Intake Response Center, a confidential telephone resource center that provides resources to adult callers with concerns about a child's behavioral health. (ajc.com)
The center is located in the Emergency Department and assisted families in navigating the mental health system. (ajc.com)
The system is working to expand services to try to better meet the growing demand for care. (ajc.com)
While the building was under construction, the nonprofit health system opened a new psychiatric unit in its main hospital for children who need both medical and mental health care, and it renovated its emergency department to create an area for children who arrive in mental health crisis. (ajc.com)
6. Maintaining a costly and adversarial litigation system is evermore at odds with our understanding of how the NHS should respond to failures in care. (parliament.uk)
His insincere claims of concern for the ability of doctors to make health care decisions look especially foolish when so many doctors are backing health care reform, realizing that the current system is collapsing and the Republicans offer no meaningful alternatives. (liberalvaluesblog.com)
Despite passage, close to 50% of the people are opposed to this expansion of government into the health care system. (hermentorcenter.com)
The vaccine is being offered first to priority groups including health workers to protect the local health system. (bvsalud.org)
It has held COVID-19 at bay for so long but with rising infections, understandable fatigue with social restrictions, low levels of immunity among the population and a fragile health system it's vital that it receives more vaccines as soon as possible. (bvsalud.org)
The workers' compensation system provides injured workers with medical care, income (or a percentage of income), and survivor benefits in cases of fatalities. (medscape.com)

However, our editor says healthcare reform has become a rallying point for Republicans, who are convinced the American people do not want the changes and that it will be a vote winner for them come the mid-term elections in November. (bbc.co.uk)
For years, Republicans have deployed themes of federal arrogance and overreach to underwrite their attacks on health reform. (vox.com)
Now the Republicans have an alternative, the American Health Care Act . (vox.com)
Ryan's assertion raises an implicit challenge, one that Republicans themselves have not wholly thought through: Why bother with national health reform at all? (vox.com)
Republicans believe a better way reform health care is to focus on bringing down the cost of health care, not simply spending $1 trillion more on it. (house.gov)
Republicans have shut down the government, invited in corporate lobbyists to actually write bills and now have turned into the "Party of No" in blocking any reforms. (opednews.com)
You simply MUST be vocally and passionately on the side of REFORM," Luntz advises in a confidential 26-page report obtained from Capitol Hill Republicans. (liberalvaluesblog.com)
If the dynamic becomes 'President Obama is on the side of reform and Republicans are against it,' then the battle is lost and every word in this document is useless. (liberalvaluesblog.com)
Don't get your hopes up that Luntz is actually advising Republicans to support meaningful health care reform. (liberalvaluesblog.com)
Posted in Health Care , Republicans . (liberalvaluesblog.com)

Health Care for America Now , an umbrella advocacy group that played a key role in the health care reform debate, last week analyzed the 546 comments that had been posted by then on the "We are the 99 percent" Tumblr site . (prwatch.org)
The House and Senate health care bills are riddled with policies that will be bad for America and threaten our health care freedom. (iwf.org)
How this difference is resolved will profoundly shape the culture of health care in America. (nybooks.com)

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi says, "We have added health care as a right, not a privilege. (hermentorcenter.com)

These bills, and their many provisions, are not in the best interest of the nation's health, nor long-term fiscal outlook. (iwf.org)
Should legislators truly be interested in addressing the nation's health care woes, they will scrap these bills entirely and begin anew. (iwf.org)

Klein is correct that the modest proposals in Congress hardly amount to a government takeover, and Spruiell is more or less correct that reform does open the door to (but does not assure) government-provided health insurance. (prospect.org)
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, let's talk turkey about the healthcare reform proposals that may or may not survive the holiday, and the key players who will determine whether this year's reform effort stays alive-or gets stuffed. (the-hospitalist.org)
Whether healthcare reform should include a public option for a national insurance plan, smaller nonprofit co-ops, or nothing of the sort has dominated the debate over the competing proposals in Congress. (the-hospitalist.org)

We can go forward with the President's proposal to ration care through an unelected board of 15 bureaucrats. (ontheissues.org)
On the other hand scare stories about bureaucrats making medical decisions won't fool anyone who has had treatment denied by insurance company bean counters based upon profit as opposed to health care considerations. (liberalvaluesblog.com)

Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, said that when it comes to health care reform, the only bipartisanship he's seen is in the opposition to it. (cnn.com)
However, insurance commissioners were faced with a loud public outcry for health care reforms and their opposition to the ACA may look like they were opposed to health care reform. (sayanythingblog.com)
Even as President Obama reveled in defeating opposition on health care, he admitted that he hasn't succeeded in breaking down partisan gridlock and changing the tone in Washington as promised before his election. (hermentorcenter.com)

The harvest was all that ridiculous talk of "death panels" and a government takeover of healthcare. (barbrastreisand.com)
Amid accusations of death panels for the elderly and health coverage for illegal immigrants, and after a 13 month battle, history was made last week. (hermentorcenter.com)

In fact, most of today's hospitals and health systems are redefining themselves and their place in the community without altering their mission statements, which tend to remain invariable throughout the hospital's lifetime. (beckershospitalreview.com)

Though Romney's reform raised no taxes, it included several core elements similar to those in the national health care law. (politifact.com)

In a last-minute move designed to win the support of a bloc of anti-abortion lawmakers, Mr Obama earlier on Sunday announced plans to issue an executive order assuring that healthcare reform will not change the restrictions barring federal money for abortion. (bbc.co.uk)
Yet the ACA is a federal statute, and the progressive push for health reform has had a doggedly national focus. (vox.com)
A more refined understanding of the need for federal action serves as a rebuke to those who claim Congress can just wash its hands of health reform. (vox.com)
On at least a half-dozen occasions during the 20th century, federal reform efforts had gone down in flames. (vox.com)
Let's keep health care prices soaring in order to justify a federal takeover. (mu.nu)
The bills under consideration would still lay the groundwork for a complete federal takeover of U.S. health care. (thenewatlantis.com)
Healthcare reform requires a gradual change, especially with the red tape of federal rules and regulations. (beckershospitalreview.com)
Stupak decided to support the Senate bill after President Obama said he would sign an executive order that would make sure the health care reform law would be consistent with current restrictions on federal funding for abortions. (cnn.com)
The board will also help create a Vermont Health Benefit Exchange, as mandated by federal law. (addisonindependent.com)
As I indicated, I prefer that health care reform be a state solution versus the power grab by the Federal government. (sayanythingblog.com)
In fact, I am surprised that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners weren't more vocally opposed to the Federal takeover of many functions which were part of the ACA, but historically handled by state insurance commissioners. (sayanythingblog.com)
So ND had to accept this disastrous Federal health care solution. (sayanythingblog.com)
If the individual insurance market succumbs to a government takeover, then the federal government would be the insurer for half the population. (pacificresearch.org)
In a June letter to the Senate Budget Committee, CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf begins: "In the absence of significant changes in policy, rising costs for healthcare will cause federal spending to grow much faster than the economy, putting the federal budget on an unsustainable path. (the-hospitalist.org)

The challenge is to characterize how these climate events may influence worker health and safety and to establish plans for mitigating, responding, and adapting to the current and anticipated impacts. (cdc.gov)

From guaranteed issue to community rating to ending coverage caps, these provisions interfere with the health insurance market, raising costs for the young and healthy in order to cover the sick and elderly. (iwf.org)
This is a terrible attack on the right of women to control their own health care coverage with their own money, and needs to be met with prompt resistance. (calitics.com)
His scare stories about long waiting times won't fool those who have no health care coverage at all. (liberalvaluesblog.com)

Below is a list of the tax increases Congress and the Administration have proposed to finance health care reform. (hawaiireporter.com)
The struggle over U.S. healthcare reform has consumed Congress for most of the year. (the-hospitalist.org)
Not everyone is on board, but any healthcare reform bill that emerges from Congress is likely to contain three main elements, according to Leighton Ku, director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. (the-hospitalist.org)

After all, the headquarters of the insurers' biggest lobbying and PR group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., is just blocks away from Freedom Plaza, where the demonstrators have set up camp -- and problems with health insurers appear to be near the top of the list of protesters' concerns. (prwatch.org)

This back-and-forth between Ezra Klein and Stephen Spruiell , where Klein finds conservatives trafficking in misinformation on health care and Spruiell keeps insisting that his objection is government involvement in health care, neatly exposes the fundamental difference between liberals and small government conservatives. (prospect.org)
Conservatives have been fighting health care reform by using the same technitues they typically use to fight the modern world-misinformation and propaganda. (liberalvaluesblog.com)

ND had some of the highest loss ratios (percentage of premiums used to pay actual health claims) in the country. (sayanythingblog.com)

American military spending must be substantially cut and the quotient put in the service of the government's vast health care "reform" program, which, as the bloviating congressman must be perfectly aware, is nothing less than a massive statist takeover of a significant portion of the American economy. (pjmedia.com)

Just last week, AHIP's muscle was on display when the Institutes of Medicine released guidelines for the Obama administration to follow in establishing the "essential benefits package" that all health plans will have to offer on the health care exchanges, or insurance marketplaces, beginning in 2014. (prwatch.org)
The New York Times has an instructive account, Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama , of the scrambling in the Administration to deal with the beyond-redeption-by-the-power-of-spin disaster of the Healthcare.gov launch. (nakedcapitalism.com)
Yet Obama somehow didn't know, didn't care, or perhaps worst of all, believed if he just kept insisting things would get done on time, that would happen, that the imperial power of the Presidential edict would clear all obstacles. (nakedcapitalism.com)
President Obama has changed his health care sales pitch. (thenewatlantis.com)
The Texas economy is growing and adding jobs in part because it hasn't adopted the economic model that Mr. Obama favors: high tax rates on the upper middle class, lots of politically directed investment, heavy unionization and a dominant government role in health care. (theincidentaleconomist.com)
President Obama says that the House's vote on health care 'wasn't an easy vote but it was the right vote. (cnn.com)
She also cited the legacy of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who wrote in a letter to Obama that health care is the 'great unfinished business of our society. (cnn.com)
President Obama has made healthcare reform the centerpiece of his first-year agenda. (the-hospitalist.org)

There certainly wasn't any accomplishment to speak of regarding the White House's holy grail, health care reform. (pjmedia.com)

There is a plan for reform of NHS services in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire which envisages some centralisation of services at Stoke Mandeville. (wikipedia.org)

When the Department of Health and Human Services quietly released the regulations in late June, consumer advocates realized that insurers had, for all practical purposes, written them. (prwatch.org)
Ms. Pipes reviews the dismal experience of states that have proceeded down this road, urging advocates at least to "be honest about the sacrifices required: Higher taxes, forced premium payments, one-size-fits-all policies, long waiting lists, rationed care, and limited access to cutting-edge medicine. (pacificresearch.org)

Washington (CNN) -- The House on Sunday passed the Senate's health care reform bill and a package of measures meant to reconcile differences between the Senate bill and the one it passed last year. (cnn.com)
House Minority Leader John Boehner delivers fiery remarks, slamming the contents of the health care bill and the process leading up to the vote. (cnn.com)
This list includes taxes in the bill passed by the House of Representatives, the bill the Senate is currently debating, and other taxes mentioned as a possible way to pay for health care reform. (hawaiireporter.com)
While most of the health care bill is not that historically revolutionary in nature, this is. (calitics.com)
This bill gives the U.S. government not only unprecedented control over our health care, but also unprecedented control over the most intimate details of our lives as well. (thetruthwins.com)
While some are trumpeting this bill as the "government takeover of health care", the reality is that is only a small part of the story. (thetruthwins.com)
The truth is that the health care reform bill represents a move by the U.S. government to literally take over our entire lives. (thetruthwins.com)
How in the world can they give us a health care "reform" bill that gives us fewer choices, higher taxes, health care rationing and unprecedented U.S. government control over everything? (thetruthwins.com)
But now that the Health Care bill has been signed into law, it's time to figure out how to work together. (hermentorcenter.com)

Simply put, lawsuits are not to blame for our health care system's deficiencies - they are simply political scapegoats. (zifflaw.com)
The system's behavioral health consultation phone line for pediatric providers is staffed by a licensed clinical social worker. (ajc.com)

The lobbyists for U.S. health insurers surely have to be feeling a little uneasy knowing that thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who have been marching and protesting in Washington as well as New York and other cities might target them in the days ahead. (prwatch.org)
As Sabrina Corlette of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute wrote, the administration narrowed the range of issues consumers can appeal, gave insurers up to 72 hours, rather than 24 hours, to made decisions on emergency care claims and weakened a provision requiring health plans to provide enrollees with information about their appeal rights in understandable language. (prwatch.org)
Health insurers are also now forced to make assumptions for purposes of financial planning and forecasts based on massive government programs they've never before had to factor in. (cfo.com)
Health insurers were demonized and accused of gouging the general public. (sayanythingblog.com)
CHAND is governed by a board comprised of the Insurance Commissioner, the state health officer, the director of OMB, one State Representative, one State Senator, and a representative from the top 3 insurers within the state. (sayanythingblog.com)
The government would launch a health plan with the express intent of under-pricing private health insurers. (pacificresearch.org)

Afghanistan's National Health Policy 2015-20 has focuses on strategic areas: governance, institutional percentage of total expenditure on health development, public health, health services and human resources. (who.int)

Beyond the sticky matter of how to pay for everything, businesses instinctively have opposed any requirement that employers offer health insurance to their employees. (the-hospitalist.org)

But concerns about externalities can't justify health reform. (vox.com)

Luntz proceeds to provide a long list of every dishonest Republican talking point about health reform such as that it would be a "government takeover of healthcare. (liberalvaluesblog.com)
For over a year, the debate over health care was dominated and distorted by an endless cascade of Republican lies over medical malpractice , the public option , rationing and so much else. (perrspectives.com)

Strictly as a strategic matter, the campaign for national health reform needs some defending. (vox.com)
Maybe supporters of reform should rack up some wins in the states before tackling the issue at the national level. (vox.com)
Both bills contain a plethora of new taxes to defray the costs of this national health care takeover. (iwf.org)
It certainly seemed like an empty promise, coming as it did after a full year of broken promises, national pain and misery, bailouts, government takeovers, backroom deals, stalled 2,000-page health care bills, and persistent unemployment. (pjmedia.com)
00:04:45 WHO is continuing to work closely with the National Department of Health and partners to provide technical advice and support and to boost local health response capacity. (bvsalud.org)

Rep. Mike Fisher, D-Lincoln, is vice chairman of the House Health Care Committee that spearheaded H.202 through the House process. (addisonindependent.com)

Based on the results of a RAND/University of California, Los Angeles project to aid in selecting California's workers' compensation guidelines for clinical care and utilization management, Harber et al developed a list of choices and processes for determining and evaluating such guidelines. (medscape.com)

Ayer said the Health Benefit Exchange will serve as a transition, or pivot, to get to a single-payer health care plan. (addisonindependent.com)
It may take some time, but Biden's preferred plan would ultimately lead to a government takeover of health insurance. (pacificresearch.org)
Why would they fight so hard against a reform plan that would help their families? (washingtonmonthly.com)

It found that 262 of the comments mention such problems as getting denials for doctor-ordered care from their insurance companies and having to forego treatment because of hefty out-of-pocket costs. (prwatch.org)
We must take measures to reduce costs and make access to health insurance more affordable for everyone. (ontheissues.org)
In order to reduce health care costs we must increase competition. (ontheissues.org)
Most people would agree that the costs of healthcare are unsustainable. (beckershospitalreview.com)
Malpractice claims actually decrease spending by encouraging doctors to perform properly, avoiding costs associated with caring for people injured by their mistakes. (zifflaw.com)
Yet "legacy" is also the term the auto industry uses when speaking of retiree health benefits and other structural labor costs. (dirtdiggersdigest.org)
In addition, ND could consider some types of incentives for medical providers for activities and processes that actually reduce long-term health care costs. (sayanythingblog.com)

Since I have been in the Senate these past seven years, this is all we have talked about - health care, and how to get a handle on it. (addisonindependent.com)

This, by Spruiell's own admission, is the "most important" consequence of the current health-care reform proposal. (prospect.org)

There is agreement on the general scope of taxes-individual mandates, employer mandates, taxes on medical device manufacturers, taxes on medical cabinet goods, caps on flexible spending accounts, higher penalties for health savings account withdrawals, and a slew of other penalties on vulnerable industries. (iwf.org)
She ably deconstructs this oft-cited number: Lack of health insurance does not mean lack of health care, and the vast majority of the uninsured are either middle- to high-income people who choose not to buy insurance, noncitizens or people eligible for other government medical programs. (pacificresearch.org)
Rush University Medical Center's mission statement is, "To provide the very best care for our patients. (beckershospitalreview.com)
In addition, generally ND medical facilities and personnel provided some of the best and cheapest care in the entire country. (sayanythingblog.com)
The unhealthy people or others who had significant preexisting medical conditions could be denied, but those people would automatically be eligible for CHAND (Comprehensive Health Association of ND) which is ND's high risk pool. (sayanythingblog.com)

Another major consideration is staying current in an environment where business is transferring from group health plans to retail plans, a trend that's likely to not only continue but to accelerate. (cfo.com)
What information and tools do we need to protect workers and ensure they can adapt to current and anticipated health and safety impacts? (cdc.gov)

We, like the health insurance industry generally, were already moving toward more retail business because of the private exchanges. (cfo.com)
Think of exchanges as the Travelocity or Orbitz for health-insurance plans, complete with coupons for the needy. (the-hospitalist.org)

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt has 28 beds designated for children and adolescents at its behavioral health hospital , providing inpatient care for patients ages 4-17 and potentially 18 if the patient is still in high school. (ajc.com)

After a scorched-earth debate over a government takeover of health care, his idea of victory is to seek insurance reform? (pjmedia.com)
Speaking from the East Room of the White House, the president, who made health care reform a priority for his administration, said the vote wasn't a victory for a political party but for the American people. (cnn.com)

Through our work with the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, we offer real-time consultation for pediatric primary care providers to assist in resource navigation, assessment of the appropriate level of care, and management of depression and anxiety by pediatricians," said Dr. Meg Benningfield, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. (ajc.com)
In Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness , Sunstein and Richard Thaler, a professor of behavioral science and economics at the University of Chicago, propose that people called "choice architects" should redesign our social structures to protect against the incompetencies of the human mind. (nybooks.com)

Voted YES on repealing the "Prevention and Public Health" slush fund. (ontheissues.org)
The responsibility that the state should take over in public health. (bvsalud.org)
It includes the direct execution of specific actions or activities of public health, but also the mobilization, promotion, guidance and coordination of other social agents. (bvsalud.org)
There has been considerable research and planning with regard to the public health and environmental aspects of climate change, but little on its effects on workers. (cdc.gov)

The problem is, most people don't understand the reforms. (barbrastreisand.com)
No longer will people be bankrupted because they have a bad gene or a bad traffic accident," says Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at MIT who helped fashion the pioneering healthcare reform act in Massachusetts. (barbrastreisand.com)
Ms. Pipes next rebuts the claim that 46 million people lack health care. (pacificresearch.org)
At risk of breaking the old adage, "Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel," this power play to takeover Los Angeles' only major journalistic institution has to be stopped. (consumerwatchdog.org)
There was once a time when health care was an issue that people of differing ideology could, if not agree on, at least have a reasonable conversation about. (prospect.org)

And you must establish your support of reform early in your presentation. (liberalvaluesblog.com)

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