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(Newser) - We've had the birthers, the deathers, and now here come the right-to-lifers to cast their two cents on the health reform debate, reports the Wall Street Journal. Democrats are bracing for protests from anti-abortion advocates, who are preparing a major push against what they call taxpayer subsidies for pregnancy termination.... More »

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abortion • health insurance • insurance • health care reform • anti-abortion activists

ANALYSIS

Health Care
Bills Don't Offer
Real Choice

Legislation in Congress seem to settle for status quo

Aug 26, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Health insurance firms are essentially monopolies because employers, not individuals, choose which plans to offer. This freedom from competitive forces has allowed insurance to become flaky and opaque—and the reform currently being debated in Washington would do little about it, writes David Leonhardt for the New York Times. Even... More »

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health insurance • Senate • insurance • health insurance premiums • health care reform • Bob Bennett • Ron Wyden • vouchers • health insurance industry

(Newser) - Regardless of how health-care reform eventually shakes out, one industry will likely reap a windfall: health insurance companies, reports the Los Angeles Times. All the leading overhaul proposals would require all citizens to have health insurance, which would guarantee tens of millions of new customers. "It's a bonanza,"... More »

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health insurance • legislation • lobbyists • health care reform • benefits • Washington lobbyists • President Obama • health insurance industry

(Newser) - President Obama brought his case for health reform to talk radio today, telling a largely conservative audience that a public option is only a small part of his goal and expressing skepticism that any deal with Republicans is possible. On the public option, "what we've said is we think... More »

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health insurance • White House • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • public option • radio interview • Michael Smerconish

OPINION

 To Cure Health Care, 
 See This Doctor 

Mayo Clinic boss could be reform's 'Petraeus'

Aug 20, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - To fix health care, we need a commander like Gen. David Petraeus: “a professional who can break through the political chaff and describe a strategy for reform that can unite the country,” writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post. He nominates Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Denis Cortese, who’... More »

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health insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Mayo Clinic • David Ignatius • President Obama • Denis Cortese

OPINION

 Let's Make Health 
 Insurance Policies 
 Readable 

Legal mumbo-jumbo means patients can't tell what they're covered for

Aug 20, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - There’s one important health care issue that’s generated little chatter: the oft-inscrutable language of insurance policies, writes Rhode Island health official John Cogan in the New York Times. Policies are penned at a grad-school level, which led his state to require, as of next year, that they be... More »

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health insurance • insurance companies • reading • health care reform

ANALYSIS

Insurer Urges Employees to Protest Health Care Reform

UnitedHealth Group lays down AstroTurf

Aug 19, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s second-biggest health insurance firm, has been encouraging employees to attend events protesting health-care reform, Talking Points Memo reports. In a clear-cut example of “Astroturf”—fake grassroots action—a memo to employees urges them to call an “advocacy specialist” who can provide talking... More »

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health insurance • protests • grassroots • health care reform • UnitedHealth • political protest • Talking Points Memo • AstroTurf • tea parties • America's Independent Party

OPINION

 Face It: the Public 
 Option's a No-Go 

'Political litmus test' wouldn't be effective anyway

Aug 19, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The public health care option is simply a “political litmus test” pushed by left-wingers to represent their side of an “ideological war”—and it’s time to give it up, writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post. “There is nothing about having one government-owned health insurance... More »

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health insurance • health care reform • Steven Pearlstein • public option

What Is a Health Care Co-Op, Anyway?

Member-owned plans would lack government leverage

Aug 18, 09 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The likelihood of there being a public health care option is fading—which has some in Congress pushing for an alternative: nonprofit health cooperatives, the Washington Post reports. Few details have emerged about how such plans would work; as it stands, their defining feature seems to be that they wouldn’... More »

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health insurance • health care reform • public option • health care cooperative

Public Option a 'Must' for Health Care Reform: Key Dems

White House waffling worries progressives

Aug 18, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Leading advocates for health care reform are concerned about the Obama administration’s apparent willingness to drop a government-run insurance program from the package in order to ensure the support of the Senate, the Washington Post reports. Prominent Democratic senators have voiced support for the public option, with John Rockefeller... More »

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health care • health insurance • Senate • Senate Democrats • AFL CIO • health care reform • House Democrats • Obama administration • public option

(Newser) - Everybody's thinking small on health care reform, writes David Goldhill in the Atlantic. Our system is so abysmal—the headline on his lengthy piece is "How American Health Care Killed My Father"—that it needs a radical restructuring, and that should start with insurance. Let's just stop buying... More »

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health care • health insurance • hospitals • health care industry • health care reform • medical care

(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

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

Guess What, Sarah? Those 'Death Panels' Already Exist ...

... they're being run by insurance companies

Aug 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin thinks health care reform will bring with it “death panels,” collections of bureaucrats who will ration care, deciding whose life is and isn’t worth saving. The flaw in that logic? “That’s not the future of health care—it’s the present,” writes... More »

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health care • health insurance • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • insurance industry • Sarah Palin • women's issues • deathers

Americans Split on Health Care Priorities: Poll

But they're divided by race, age, location,
not political party

Aug 10, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans have differing priorities for health care reform based not on a Republican/Democrat divide but on their race, age, and location, a USA Today/Gallup poll found. A majority of African-American and Latino voters among those polled think extending coverage to the uninsured should be the most important aspect of reform... More »

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race • health insurance • African Americans • health care industry • Latinos • health care reform • South • women's issues

A Digital Pill a Day May Keep the Doctor Away

Wireless monitoring aims to cut visits and billions in health costs

Aug 4, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Congress debates ways to save on health care, Silicon Valley has an idea of its own: cutting costs through wireless technology, the Wall Street Journal reports. One startup has built a tiny, edible chip that attaches to pills and keeps track of whether patients are taking their medication. Remote... More »

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technology • health care costs • health insurance • health care reform • wireless technology • microchip • health monitoring • medical technology

 White House Fires Back 
 at Drudge on Health Care 

Responds to video showing Obama discussing 'eliminating' private insurance

Aug 4, 09 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House released a video response today to a Drudge Report posting labeled “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.” The communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform says the clip is taken “out of context”... More »

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health insurance • Drudge Report • health care reform • health insurers • Obama administration • President Obama • Linda Douglass

Health Care Debate Readies for Road Trip

Democrats will spend recess targeting insurance companies

Aug 3, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the House already on break and the Senate readying for the August recess, the health care debate has moved to the court of public opinion, the New York Times reports. Both sides are launching campaign tours and waves of TV ads, with Democrats attacking the insurance industry and... More »

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health care • health insurance • House of Representatives • Republican Party • health care reform • political advertising • Democratic Party • David Axelrod • US Senate • Obama administration • political strategy

OPINION

 Obama's Health 
 Plan Will Crack  
 Whip on States 

States mishandle Medicaid, get bullied by private firms: doctor

Jul 29, 09 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors nationwide are “outraged” by President Obama’s health care plan, but “I call it progress,” writes one Missouri physician for Salon. The reform would take oversight out of the hands of states, which seemingly specialize in “lax regulation of private insurers” and poor handling of... More »

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health care • health insurance • physician • Medicaid • health care reform • state spending • state governments • health insurers • President Obama

OPINION

Health Care Needs a Real Free Market

But it's a scary idea,
to consumers and politicians alike: Klein

Jul 29, 09 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - America’s best shot for a new, better health care system lies in a strong health care exchange, argues Ezra Klein in the Washington Post. “Compared with the crazy-quilt system we have now, the idea is weirdly simple:” A single market where consumers can shop for plans and... More »

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health insurance • health care reform • insurance industry • President Obama • health insurance exchange • Ezra Klein

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