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health insurance stories: 171 news summaries

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Want to Save Dad? Insurance Won't Let You

And Congress fatcats need to overhaul this 'disgrace' now: Kristof

Oct 4, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - So dear old dad desperately needs a kidney, and the docs say you're the best fit. Tough luck, writes Nicholas Kristof in a look at the case of David Waddington, whose two sons can't donate—because pre-donation screening might reveal to insurance companies that they have the same genetic condition... More »

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health insurance • genetic testing • health care reform • kidney disease • Nicholas Kristof • pre-existing condition

ANALYSIS

Over a Lifetime, Being a Gay Couple Can Cost $470K Extra

Detailed analysis takes health insurance, taxes, other benefits into account

Oct 3, 09 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - An exhaustive analysis of the lifetime costs a committed gay couple faces compared to those of a heterosexual marriage finds that, in the worst case, the gay couple pays out nearly $470,000 extra. The study by the New York Times assumed the couples were together until one partner died,... More »

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health insurance • income tax • Social Security • estate tax • heterosexual couples • cost-benefit analysis • same-sex couples • marriage penalty

Health Foes Fight Mandatory Insurance at State Level

Efforts, mainly GOP-led, appear more symbolic, but could result in court battles

Sep 28, 09 7:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Efforts are afoot in more than a dozen states to outlaw mandatory health insurance, a preemptive strike against federal health reform that, though mainly symbolic and constitutionally dubious, could provoke a court battle that would be costly and delay any plan passed by Congress. “I just don’t want... More »

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health insurance • Massachusetts • Minnesota • US Constitution • health care reform • court cases • states' rights • Obama administration

 Baucus Sweetens Subsidies as Bill Goes to Mark-Up 

Democrats, Republican Snowe wanted lower costs for health insurance

Sep 22, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Finance Committee finally meets today to consider Max Baucus' health care reform bill—a bill Baucus has already reworked to counter complaints that it puts too much burden on the middle class. Baucus has upped subsidies to those too strapped to buy insurance, and says he may also... More »

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health care • health insurance • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus • subsidy • committee

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

Young Adults Will Pay Steep Price for Health Reform 

Insurance will be cheaper, but not cheap, and  they'll be forced to buy it

Sep 16, 09 6:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Young adults are the demographic most firmly behind President Obama and health care reform, but they may also end up funding a disproportionate share of it, the Washington Post reports. Requiring young adults to sign up for health insurance is a key part of reform plans, as it will ensure... More »

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health insurance • youth • health care reform • uninsured • Obama administration • President Obama

Wife-Beating Branded a  'Pre-Existing Condition'

Eight states allow insurance firms to deny coverage to abused spouses

Sep 15, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - It is legal in eight states and in DC for insurers to reject victims of domestic violence because being beaten up by your spouse qualifies as "a pre-existing health condition" the Huffington Post reports. If you're in a marriage where it's happened once, the logic goes, you're more likely... More »

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health care • health insurance • domestic violence • health care reform • domestic abuse • Mike Enzi • health insurance industry • pre-existing condition

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

 Universal Health Care: 
 We Already Gave it to Iraq 

Constitution America fought to give Iraq guarantees its citizens health care

Sep 10, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many US lawmakers opposing health care reform need to be asked why it's OK for Iraqis but not Americans, Mark Dorlester writes for the Huffington Post. Article 31 of the Iraqi Constitution—made possible by the war, and hailed as a victory by the Bush administration—guarantees every Iraqi state-funded... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • health care • health insurance • health care reform • Iraq war

ANALYSIS

 Fresh-Faced Prez 
 Scores His Jimmy 
 Stewart Moment 

Mr. Obama goes to Washington 

Sep 10, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A joint session of Congress might not have been the perfect setting for Barack Obama's health care reform speech last night, writes Washington Post critic Tom Shales. All that "pomp, circumstance, and folderol," including 16 minutes just to get to the lectern, may have led voters to change... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • health insurance • health care reform • speech • Obama administration • Jimmy Stewart • death panel

(Newser) - Insurance companies are being hit from all sides on at least one issue—in industry jargon, it's called rescission. In the real world, it's when insurers cancel coverage because they say a customer has lied to them about a preexisting condition or some other issue. It's not clear how many... More »

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health insurance • insurance companies • application • health care reform • insurance fraud • rescission • pre-existing condition

Baucus Fleshes Out New Health Reform Compromise

To curb costs, plan would offer stripped-down coverage, add fees to  health industry

Sep 8, 09 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - With President Obama’s much-anticipated health care speech to Congress on the horizon, the head of the Senate Finance Committee has rolled out a new proposal for a compromise bill, the New York Times reports. Sen. Max Baucus’ plan would offer scaled-down coverage to some, and, to cover the $880... More »

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health insurance • legislation • Medicaid • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • speech • Max Baucus • President Obama

 Firefighters Play 
 ER Docs to 
 Uninsured 

Medical calls have more than doubled since 1980

Sep 4, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Operating in a poor area where many lack health insurance, a DC firehouse battles far more than just flames: Some 80% of its calls are for medical emergencies. Because it is believed to respond fastest, Washington’s fire department zooms to almost all the city’s emergency calls alongside EMS,... More »

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health care • health insurance • firefighters • primary care • emergency responders • Washington, DC • ambulance

OPINION

Daschle: Leave Whiny GOP
in the Dust if Necessary

Democrats may need to use reconciliation

Sep 3, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s essential that Congress act on health care, and if that means working without bipartisan support, so be it, writes Tom Daschle in the Wall Street Journal. If we fail, 60 million people will be uninsured in 10 years, and typical families will have to pay $25,000 a... More »

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health insurance • Senate • Senate Democrats • Senate Republicans • health care reform • reconciliation • Tom Daschle

Young Adults Biggest Fans
of Health Care Reform 

Also top supporters of public option: survey

Sep 2, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Making up 30% of the uninsured population, young adults are the biggest supporters of health reform and the public option, a poll finds—but they're also among the quietest. Only 53% of working young adults qualify for employer-based insurance, and they usually can’t afford to take out their own... More »

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health insurance • young adult • health care reform • uninsured • survey • demographic trends • supporters • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Health Care Is a Public Good; It's Time Dems Explain Why

'The health of each of us depends on the health of the rest of us'

Sep 2, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democrats are in danger of losing the health care reform battle over an argument "that a novice debater would have no trouble putting down," writes Thomas Frank for the Wall Street Journal. Reformers need to directly address the role of government in health care, Frank writes, and... More »

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health care • health insurance • Medicare • health care industry • Medicaid • health care reform • Obama administration

Pelosi Willing to Deal to Win Back House Dems

They plan more flexible approach, postponed public option

Sep 1, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats got whipped on health care over the August recess, and party leaders now have to win back some of their own shaky members, reports Politico. The push starts at a caucus meeting in the Capitol basement next week as Nancy Pelosi and other top leaders will try to... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health insurance • politics • Democratic caucus • health care reform • House Democrats • public option

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

 How the Dems Can 
 Save Obamacare 

Keep plans private, creating gov't care 'by proxy'

Aug 28, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid “widespread national revulsion,” Obamacare as it stands “is dead,” but the Democrats can revive it if they’re willing to make some key concessions, writes Charles Krauthammer—a nonpracticing physician in addition to pundit—in the Washington Post. What they must do:
  1. Dump the
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health insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • public option

(AP) - John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town hall meeting about health care reform yesterday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop shouting that she had to leave. The senator hadn't yet opened the meeting to questions when one audience member continuously... More »

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John McCain • health insurance • Arizona • Phoenix • health care reform • town hall meeting • protesters • public option

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