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 House Passes Landmark 
 Health Care Reform 

Measure passes 220-215, with only one Republican in favor

Nov 7, 09 10:24 PM CST
(AP) - The House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation tonight to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The measure passed 220-215 with only one Republican—Louisiana's Joseph Cao—in favor and 39 Democrats opposed. "Oh, what a night,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • House of Representatives • universal health care • health care reform • government run health care

Obama to Recast Health Reform as Moral Issue

Focus on legislative details has bogged down debate, supporters worry

Aug 19, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is about to start focusing more on the moral aspects of health care reform, stressing the need to provide secure coverage to all Americans, the Wall Street Journal reports. The shift may reflect the concerns of some supporters that Obama has spent too much time talking about the... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • universal health care • health care reform • uninsured • morality • President Obama

OPINION

Obamacare
Isn't 'Socialist Hellhole,' It's Switzerland

Krugman: White House plan not all that radical

Aug 17, 09 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investor's Business Daily made a howler when it said the British physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance" under the UK's health care, but for Paul Krugman, the "vile and stupid" editorial missed the point. Obamacare doesn't look like the British system, in which government runs hospitals... More »

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health care • United Kingdom • Switzerland • universal health care • National Health Service • health care reform • Paul Krugman

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

Dems Propose 5.4% Tax on Top Earners for Health Care

Legislation proposes paying for coverage with a new tax on the wealthy

Jul 14, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - And they're off: House Democrats unveiled their bill to reform the US health care system today, the Hill reports. The bill includes a government-run insurance option to cover more than 30 million uninsured Americans and would impose new taxes on the wealthy to pay for it all, notes Politico. The... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Barack Obama • health care costs • House of Representatives • health care industry • universal health care • Obama administration

OPINION

If Health Care Push Fails, Blame Dems

Public wants a public option; why do 'centrists' oppose it?

Jun 22, 09 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Now ought to be a good time to reform health care. With costs up and coverage down, polls show the public overwhelmingly favors change. Unfortunately, “a handful of Democratic senators are still determined to party like it’s 1993,” writes Paul Krugman of the New York Times.... More »

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health care • health insurance • universal health care • Democrat • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Paul Krugman • Ben Nelson • health insurers • insurance industry • public option

Obama Seeks Another $313B in Health Cuts

He wants to reduce Medicare payments
to hospitals

Jun 13, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to pay for his ambitious health care plans, Barack Obama today proposed another $313 billion in cuts to government health care spending over the next decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. That brings the total cuts proposed to nearly $950 billion, just shy of the $1... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • hospitals • Medicare • drug companies • universal health care • Medicaid • health care reform

(AP) - Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance, under a draft bill being circulated today by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's health committee. The bill would provide subsidies to help poor people afford care, and give patients... More »

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health care • Congress • Ted Kennedy • universal health care • health care reform

(Newser) - Offshore tax havens may not be fair, but they’ve been around for decades. So why is President Obama taking them on now, Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich asks in Salon. It’s not to try to keep jobs here, as the White House claims; the move might even drive... More »

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Barack Obama • universal health care • tax evasion • Robert Reich • tax breaks • tax haven • Obama administration • President Obama

 Doctor Shortage 
 Could Hurt Obama 
 Health Care Plans 

More primary care physicians are needed to serve aging population, uninsured

Apr 27, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's ambitious plants to expand health care for millions of currently uninsured Americans while simultaneously meeting the needs of aging boomers, may be stymied not only by politics-as-usual but a shortage of primary care physicians, the New York Times reports. Officials are weighing several options, including increasing Medicare payments... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care costs • universal health care • National Health Service • shortage • health care reform • primary care

OPINION

Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare

President serves candy now, spinach later: Krauthammer

Apr 24, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is going to need more than a “cash-cow carbon tax” to fund his goals of “nationalized health care” and “federalized education,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Obama’s going to have to slash Social Security and Medicare. But his current health... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • universal health care • Medicaid • Charles Krauthammer

(Newser) - One is a 59-year-old liberal who used to advocate for senior citizens. The other is a 75-year-old conservative businessman. But together senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Robert Bennett of Utah may have crafted a bipartisan health plan with legs, writes Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal. Their... More »

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health insurance • Robert S. Bennett • universal health care • health care reform • Ron Wyden

It's Now or Never for Health Care Reform: Grassley

Election politics will only make reform more difficult, Grassley says

Mar 19, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s promised health care reform must happen this year—or it won't happen at all in the next four years, says a key GOP senator. Charles Grassley—he'll play a major role in any new legislation as the ranking Republican on the finance panel—warns that election politics... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • universal health care • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Obama administration

Mass. Seeks New Way to Pay for Health Plan

Most insured state
in nation burdened
by priciest care

Mar 16, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three years ago, Massachusetts politicians began what may be the gutsiest health care experiment the country has ever seen, bringing near-universal coverage to the state in record time. There’s just one problem: they put off any attempt to control costs, the New York Times reports. Massachusetts’ health care is... More »

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Mitt Romney • health care costs • health insurance • Massachusetts • universal health care • Deval Patrick

 Report: US Gets 
 Less Health for More $$$ 

Other nations in better health despite spending less

Mar 12, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(AP) - If the global economy were a 100-yard dash, the US would start 23 yards behind its competitors because its health care costs too much—about $2.4 trillion a year—and delivers too little, says a report out today. The authors and leading CEOs say the US funnels away resources... More »

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health care costs • insurance companies • United States • universal health care • health care reform • President Obama

 Now is Kennedy's Chance 
 for Health Reform 

'Stars are better aligned' with friendly president, business community

Mar 8, 09 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Recent praise of Ted Kennedy has “the feeling of a grand farewell,” but don't bury the cancer-stricken senator just yet, Eleanor Clift writes in Newsweek. Far from it—the liberal lion is "burning up the phone lines" as the third and best shot at enacting his cherished... More »

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cancer • health care • Barack Obama • Ted Kennedy • universal health care • health care reform • Obama administration • Bill Maher Grid

GLOSSIES

 A Surgeon's Case for 
 Universal Health Care 

If every other industrialization nation and Massachusetts can do it, so can the feds

Jan 19, 09 7:02 PM CST
(Newser) - If Americans are smart, they'll learn from other nations—and Massachusetts—in building a system of universal health care, writes surgeon Atul Gawande in The New Yorker. The rise of health reform "is surprising and instructive" in nations like the UK and France, which made controversial changes after... More »

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health care • public health • universal health care • hospital • health care reform • policy changes • President Obama • Bill Maher Grid

Money or Your Life? Brits Weigh Drug Cost Vs. Benefit

With its restrictions forcing companies to lower prices, some see 'workable paradigm' for US

Dec 3, 08 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - A British government institute that approves drugs based on cost-benefit analysis is coming under fire at home even as other countries are seeing it as a model for bringing down costs, the New York Times reports. Though the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence often balks at expensive life-prolonging... More »

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health care costs • drug companies • universal health care • prescription drugs • cancer treatment • Britain • cost-benefit analysis

 UK Deporting HIV Patients 
 to 'Death Sentence' 

Critics say British policy hypocritical

Dec 1, 08 4:58 AM CST
(Newser) - An African policy group is accusing the UK of deporting immigrants who were being treated for HIV to almost certain death in places where they will be unable to acquire drugs needed to survive. Advocates call the move hypocritical since Britain is a vocal backer of an international declaration calling... More »

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AIDS • HIV • universal health care • deportation • medical treatment • immigrant • refugee • Britain • World AIDS Day

Next Stab at Health Reform Looks More Promising

Industry claims to be ready to compromise

Nov 20, 08 9:33 AM CST
(Newser) - If health care reform passes this time, a major factor will be that its erstwhile enemies are now rooting for it, the Wall Street Journal reports. An industry roadblock killed the Clinton administration’s attempt in the early 1990s, but this time, insurers are playing ball. “You see a... More »

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health care • Ted Kennedy • health care industry • universal health care • Clinton administration • health care reform • Max Baucus • Tom Daschle • health insurers • President Obama

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