Tag: reform
member name: Prima Donna
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November 24, 2009 10:48 PM EST --
Why should launching wars and cutting taxes for the rich require only 50 votes while saving lives requires 60? asks Representative Alan Grayson (D-Florida). Grayson pointed out a number of bills that . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:38 AM EST --
The AARP is set to endorse the historic health care reform bill. The House bill could make it to the House floor as early as Saturday. The endorsement is seen as a major boost to President Obama's goal . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:41 AM EST --
Bill Clinton will meet with Democrats in the U.S. Senate today as they work on their health care bill, the Associate Press is reporting. Anti-abortion groups and Republicans are hoping to drive a wedge . . .
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November 23, 2009 04:45 PM EST --
A new poll of Pennsylvania AARP members released last week finds strong support across party and ideological lines for elements of health care reform included in the Affordable Health Care for America . . .
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August 17, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
Don't let political gamesmanship keep you from taking action on health care reform. At least one Democratic leader is convinced there will be a public option in the final bill.
Too many voices, shouted . . .
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November 23, 2009 12:01 PM EST --
Healthcare access, not cost, is the most urgent healthcare problem, according Americans who responded to the Gallup poll on Health and Healthcare released today. The survey has been taken annually since . . .
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October 31, 2009 12:21 PM EDT --
Medicare has been a stable, reliable program for senior citizens, people with disabilities and those with endstage renal disease for more than four decades, and has provided coverage for more than 45 . . .
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October 30, 2009 08:01 AM EDT --
In our current health care system, women often face higher health care costs than men and multiple other barriers to obtaining health insurance. In the individual insurance market, women face discrimination . . .
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May 21, 2009 09:03 AM EDT --
I recently had the opportunity to learn more about the single-payer health care system being proposed in my home state of Pennsylvania. Seems to make a lot of sense to me.
The Family and Business Healthcare . . .
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August 20, 2009 02:47 PM EDT --
I am sitting in on a meeting right now on health care reform meeting with Barack Obama. Join us online.
Yes we can!
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October 30, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
1. BEGINS TO CLOSE THE MEDICARE PART D DONUT HOLE —Reduces the donut hole by $500 and institutes a 50% discount on brand-name drugs, effective January 1, 2010.
2. IMMEDIATE HELP FOR THE UNINSURED . . .
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October 27, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
Joe Lieberman's doubletalk on the public option is widely documented. Why not toss him overboard and get on with the work of real health care reform? He is grabbing too much undeserved attention.
I . . .
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August 17, 2009 11:45 AM EDT --
I had the opportunity to attend a town hall meeting last week, and, like many others in my district, waited for shouting to quiet down before asking for the hard facts on health care reform as it relates . . .
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September 21, 2009 03:01 PM EDT --
In 2007, Highmark CEO Kenneth Melani, MD, had salary of $1,037,630, bonuses of $2,548,701, and benefits or other compensation of $60,000, for a total of $3,646,311.
If that doesn't . . .
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November 05, 2009 04:09 PM EST --
The Affordable Health Care for America Act: Short Summary The Affordable Health Care for America Act provides quality affordable health care for all Americans and controls health care cost growth. CBO . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:21 PM EST --
Despite writing in June that “quality health coverage must exist for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions,” Republican Leader John Boehner introduced a substitute amendment . . .
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November 09, 2009 03:57 PM EST --
Saturday's vote to pass the Health Care for America Act, HR 3962, will strengthen Medicare for seniors, relieve small businesses from unsustainable insurance costs, and provide affordable health insurance . . .
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October 21, 2009 02:25 PM EDT --
I was appalled to learn that 14,000 Americans -- most of them women and children -- lose their health insurance every day. I hadn't realized the number was so big. Don't delay -- call or write a personal . . .
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October 23, 2009 09:22 AM EDT --
The Washington Post today is reporting that there is growing support for the public option among lawmakers.
This would made sense since the polls show the majority (anywhere between 57% and . . .
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August 24, 2009 12:32 PM EDT --
An interesting op-ed piece in yesterday's Baltimore Sun explains the real reason health insurance companies are fighting the public option.
Karen Ignagni, chief lobbyist for the health insurance industry, . . .
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