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health care costs stories: 104 news summaries

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 GOP Health Plan 
 Would Leave 
 52M Uninsured 

Bill saves some money, expands coverage by only 3M

Nov 5, 09 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The GOP health care bill has no chance of passing—but if it did, most people who already have coverage would see their premiums drop, while 52 million Americans currently uninsured would stay that way. So says a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which largely confirms Dems' claims... More »

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health care • health care costs • Congressional Budget Office • health care reform • uninsured • House Republicans

Study sees huge savings

 US Health Care 
 Wastes $700B a Year 

A third of spending is lost to pointless treatment, paperwork, fraud

Oct 26, 09 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A study by Thomson Reuters released today confirms President Obama's contention that the American health care system is hemorrhaging billions of dollars a year, with one-third of the cost of care wasted on inefficiency, mistakes, and fraud. The report, which cites dozens of research papers, finds that about $700 billion... More »

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health care • health care costs • Medicare • health care reform • malpractice

HEALTH CARE REFORM

 Dour Industry Report Backfires 

Dems, GOP alike have hard time believing Hail Mary predicting higher costs

Oct 13, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The health insurance industry report presented yesterday that predicts the reform bill will do little to stop rising costs appears to have backfired. Dems are up in arms at the timing and content of the “misleading and harmful” attack from their erstwhile ally in the effort. Sen. Jay Rockefeller... More »

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Congress • health care costs • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Karen Ignagni • health insurance industry • America's Health Insurance Plans

Insurance Group Bashes Baucus Bill With Report

White House betrayed by 'hatchet job' predicting cost hikes

Oct 12, 09 7:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is steamed this morning over a report, sponsored by the insurance industry, saying the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill would cause premiums and costs to rise. The report was commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group that has until now supported reform... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Obama administration • America's Health Insurance Plans

OPINION

 Soda Tax Deserves to Fizzle 

It won't help fat people, or poor people, but will line gov't coffers

Sep 30, 09 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taxing soda is at best a stupid idea and at worst a cynical ploy by a money-grubbing government, writes Katherine Mangu-Ward for Reason. Here's why:
  • Sin taxes don't work: "None of the nickel-and-dime proposals on the table is large enough to discourage soda drinking," Mangu-Ward writes.
... More »

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obesity • health care costs • budget • regressive tax • soda tax • Katherine Mangu-Ward • high-fructose corn syrup

(Newser) - Current health care legislation would require every American to buy health insurance, but would do little or nothing to control the skyrocketing premiums they’d have to pay, the LA Times reports. Versions of the bill try to address the problem indirectly—with a public option in the House... More »

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health care costs • health insurance premiums • health care reform • Max Baucus • public option • mandate

opinion

Sometimes
a Bad Bill Is Good Enough

Reformers must see Baucus' effort as starting point: Krugman

Sep 18, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Progressives will soon face their "long-dreaded moment of truth" on health care reform, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times. Any bill that emerges is bound to disappoint, and "the question is where to draw the line," he explains. "How bad does a bill have... More »

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health care costs • health care reform • Paul Krugman • Max Baucus • progressives

40% of Employers to Hike Health Plan Costs Next Year

Another 8% to drop coverage entirely, survey reveals

Sep 16, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many Americans are happy with their employer-sponsored health care plans and eager to keep them, but they won't be keeping them at the current price, the Washington Post reports. In a survey released yesterday, some 40% of employers said they expect to increase the amount their employees paid for... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Kodak • Business Roundtable • employers • health insurance premiums • health care reform • survey

OPINION

 America 
 Needs to 
 Embrace 
 Death 

Lowering health care costs means cutting unnecessary end-of-life treatment

Sep 13, 09 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobody wants to talk about rationing health care, but “the need to spend less money on the elderly at the end of life is the elephant in the room in the health-reform debate,” Evan Thomas writes in Newsweek. To expand coverage and lower costs, Americans must overcome their... More »

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health care • health care costs • death • rationing • health care reform • death panel • end-of-life care

OPINION

 To Cut Health Costs,  
 Fix the Food Industry 

Obesity 'accounts for nearly a tenth' of health-care spending

Sep 10, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s an “elephant in the room” when it comes to health care reform: American health care costs a bundle in large part because we’re so fat, writes Michael Pollan for the New York Times. President Obama has touched on the issue, but the country hasn’t, and... More »

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obesity • food • health care costs • health insurance • diabetes • obesity epidemic • public health • health care reform • Michael Pollan • food industry

OPINION

Forget Health Reform—We Can't Afford It

The economy should
be Obama's top priority: Henninger

Sep 10, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama makes health care sound like the most pressing issue in American life, but with unemployment at 10% and the country still officially in recession, Daniel Henninger wonders why he's "draining a dwindling reservoir of presidential capital." The cost of health care may be a problem for... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care costs • recession • unemployment • US economy • health care reform • economy • Obama administration • Wall Street bailout • TARP

More Americans Think They
Can Cover Health Costs: Poll

But uninsured far less likely to think they can pay medical bills

Aug 31, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - One reason more Americans may not be backing President Obama's health care overhaul: increasing numbers of citizens say they don't need help. A Reuters poll shows that the percentage of Americans who think they can pay for medical treatments rose 12 points since March, with the wealthy feeling more confident... More »

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health care • health care costs • poll • Thomson Reuters • health care reform

OPINION

Current Care Kills More Than 'Army of Death Panels'

System 'takes lives and breaks apart families'

Aug 30, 09 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite screeches that a government-run health care program will bump people into an early grave, "it’s a good bet that our existing dysfunctional health system knocks off far more people than an army of ‘death panels’ could, even if they did exist," writes Nicholas Kristof in... More »

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health care costs • divorce • health insurance • bankruptcy • health care reform • Obama administration • Nicholas Kristof • President Obama

OPINION

No, Joe, We Can't Put Off Health Care

Procrastinating will
only inflate costs
in the long run

Aug 26, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Lieberman recently opined that, given our deficit woes, we should wait to reform health care, saying “There’s no reason we have to do it all now." Well, he’s dead wrong, writes David Lazarus of the LA Times. Without reform, costs will keep going up,... More »

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health care costs • Joe Lieberman • health care reform

(Newser) - Edward Kennedy’s terminal illness has become a powerful symbol in the health care debate, Politico reports, though not necessarily in the way the Massachusetts senator would like. Although Kennedy recently wrote that he wants all Americans “to get the same treatment that US senators are entitled to,”... More »

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health care • health care costs • Ted Kennedy • health care reform • death panel

(Newser) - Scan the ranks of health care reform malcontents at your local town hall, and you’ll notice a lot of older faces. With Democrats aiming their sales pitch mostly at middle-class Americans and the uninsured, seniors have come to fear that Medicare, their own beloved government-run health care, will face... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Medicare • AARP • health care reform • senior citizens • deathers

(Newser) - Only a week ago, it seemed that conservatives had all the momentum in the fight against health care reform. Now, it's clear "they ramped up too quickly," writes Marc Ambinder in the Atlantic. The first town hall activists were "itching for a fight," and "the... More »

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health care costs • health care reform • town hall meeting • Blue Dog Democrats • Republicans

health care town hall

 Obama Takes On Rationing,  
 'Death Panel' Rumors 


Aug 11, 09 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama took the stage in New Hampshire today to set the record straight about Democratic health care reform efforts. Though the crowd was all applause, Obama took on the raucous protests that have characterized recent town halls. “Let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations,... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • health insurance • rationing • health care reform • town hall meeting • women's issues • death panel • deathers

OPINION

Health Care Opponents Aren't (All) Crazy

They aren't 'delusional' for equating reform
with fewer choices

Aug 11, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are definitely crazy black helicopter watchers amongst the screaming masses of health care foes, but most of the people filling town halls are “confused and concerned Americans,” writes Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. “And they have a point.” Robinson’s a self-proclaimed “... More »

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health care costs • protests • universal health care • rationing • health care reform

OPINION

 GOP 'Flat-Out' Lying 
 About Health Care 

Republicans trying to scare US out of discussion

Aug 7, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to health care reform, Republicans have become “political terrorists,” trying to scare Americans in an effort to block consensus, writes Steven Pearlstein for the Washington Post. “There is no credible way to look at what has been proposed and conclude that these will... More »

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health care • health care costs • Senate Republicans • Republican Party • health care reform • House Republicans • Obama administration • Congressional Republicans

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