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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

 Healthcare 
 Bill Boosts 
 Pay for 
 Prayer 

Insurance firms urged to cover praying healers

Nov 3, 09 5:34 AM CST
(Newser) - A little-noticed provision in a Senate version of the pending health care bill would require insurance companies to consider paying for prayer as a medical expense. The addition was inserted by Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and backed by Democrats John Kerry and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, the home state... More »

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health care • health insurance • Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • church • Orrin Hatch • prayer • shark attack • Christian Science

ANALYSIS

Lieberman, Bayh Wives
in Bed with Health Biz

Ties to pharma, insurers  make filibuster threats suspect

Oct 30, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The threats from Sens. Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh to help filibuster any health reform bill with a public option should come as no surprise to anybody familiar with their family finances, writes Joe Conason. Lieberman's wife Hadassah spent 30 years working in the corporate health sector for pharmaceutical firms... More »

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health care • Joe Lieberman • health care industry • lobbying • health care reform • Evan Bayh • WellPoint • public option • Susan Bayh

DANIEL HENNINGER

Dems, Health Care Need to Enter the iPhone Age

Lumbering dinosaur of a bill will fall flat with 21st century voters

Oct 29, 09 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - We live in the age of the iPhone, a world in which you can take your pick of 100,000 apps—and "Democrats are pushing the biggest, fattest, one-size-fits all legislation since 1965," writes Daniel Henninger for the Wall Street Journal. It's not what you'd hope for from... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Democrats • Harry Reid • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama

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

 Rich May 
 Evolve Into 
 Own Species 

Wealthy winning huge edge with longer life, access to biotechnology

Oct 26, 09 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The super wealthy will have such access to high levels of health care, biotechnology and robotics that they could develop into their own species of being, argues a Silicon Valley  futurist. The rich will be able to grow their own organs and manipulate genetics for superior abilities and freedom from... More »

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health care • biotechnology • organs • species • robotics • rich • wealthy • Paul Scoffo

secret weapon

 Michelle Pushes 
 for Health Reform 

First lady makes case for overhaul in  personal terms

Oct 23, 09 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama rejoined the push for health care reform today, making the administration's case in an event at the White House and an online video message. Speaking with Jill Biden at a gathering for breast cancer survivors, Obama decried the fact that patients can’t get insurance because cancer in... More »

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health care • breast cancer • Michelle Obama • health care reform • women's issues • health insurance industry • pre-existing condition

 Maine's Other Senator 
 Could Swing 
 Health Reform 

Eyes turn to Susan Collins as Dems ramp up courtship

Oct 22, 09 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last week Sen. Olympia Snowe was the center of attention of Capitol Hill as she bucked the GOP line to support health care reform, but now Maine's other Republican senator, Susan Collins, is the one to watch. Both women voted for President Obama's stimulus package in February, and Democrats and... More »

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health care • Senate • Maine • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • health care reform

Health Debate Now Hinges on Public Option

Obama, Reid warm to Snowe 'trigger' plan  phased in state by state

Oct 15, 09 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House and Congress are now wrangling to reconcile the five health care bills on the floors of the House and Senate, and no issue is causing greater headaches than the so-called public option. The Senate Finance Committee's bill, which has the support of Republican Olympia Snowe, doesn't have... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Raul Grijalva • public option

 Baucus Panel 
 Approves Health Bill 

Snowe is only Republican 'yes' vote

Oct 13, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(AP) - A pivotal Senate committee has approved a sweeping remake of the country's health care system, delivering a long-sought boost to President Obama's goal of expanding coverage. The 14-9 vote in the Senate Finance Committee sets up a historic debate on the Senate floor and moves health care overhaul closer to... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus

House, Senate Dems Split on 'Cadillac Tax'

As finance committee votes, caucus divided on how to fund reform

Oct 13, 09 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Finance Committee is poised to send its bill to the full legislature today, but its provision taxing "Cadillac" insurance plans is raising hackles in the House. Max Baucus and other senators say taxing high-cost plans will raise $200 billion, a quarter of the legislation's price tag, and... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Barack Obama • Congress • health insurance • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Max Baucus • taxation

Mayo Clinic Turns Away Medicare, Medicaid Patients

Hospital praised for efficiency treats increasingly wealthy population

Oct 13, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mayo Clinic, which has gotten plaudits from the White House for its low spending on Medicare and Medicaid patients, is turning some of those patients away. The clinic will stop accepting Medicaid patients from Nebraska or Montana at its main Rochester, Minnesota, campus, and will no longer offer primary... More »

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health care • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Mayo Clinic

OPINION

Rove: Health Care Bill Is
Gift to GOP

Backlash against spending will be 'boon'
to party in 2010

Oct 8, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP is winning the debate on health care and it'll win control of Congress as well if the Democrats manage to pass a health care bill, writes Karl Rove. Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus wants to "front-load" the bill with hefty tax hikes that will kick in... More »

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health care • Congress • Karl Rove • government spending • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Max Baucus • 2010 election

 ObamaCare 
 Opposition 
 Drops 

Poll finds nation now evenly split on health care reform plans

Oct 7, 09 4:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Opposition to President Obama's health care reform plans has plunged almost 10% in the last months, leaving the nation evenly split with 40% in favor and 40% opposed, according to the latest AP poll. Another 17% are neutral and 3% are undecided. Opposition among seniors, the group most skeptical about... More »

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health care • Medicare • poll • health care reform • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Many Jobs Are Gone Forever 

Employment picture likely to remain grim for years, and predicting winning industries is a challenge

Oct 5, 09 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The job market is likely to be grim for years to come—economists expect that even if job creation returned to the brisk pace of the ‘90s, unemployment wouldn’t return to 5% until 2017. And for many of the unemployed, the numbers belie the real problem: The positions... More »

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health care • employment • recession • unemployment • job • job creation • green jobs • recession depression

 I'd Vote for Health Bill: Frist 

Obama's reforms are a step in the right direction, former Senate majority leader says

Oct 2, 09 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Health care reform legislation has the unexpected support of a prominent physician: former Senate Republican leader Bill Frist. If he were still in politics, “I would end up voting for it," Frist said. The surgeon also blamed some Republicans for not engaging seriously in the health care debate:... More »

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health care • Republican • Senate • Bill Frist • physician • doctor • health care reform • incentives • Obama administration

Swiss System Thrives Without Public Option

Highly regulated but market-based system wins plaudits

Oct 1, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Given the fractious debate over the public option, some prognosticators are looking to the one-of-a-kind Swiss health care system for answers. The system doesn’t have any such government-run plan, though it guarantees coverage for all. Meanwhile, the Swiss spend far less on health care than the US and are... More »

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health care • Switzerland • health care reform

NEW POLL

Most Americans Favor 'Soak
the Rich' Tax

Populism is in, and half think Wal-Mart best symbolizes America

Sep 28, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - As if tea parties weren't screamingly pointing to its existence, there lurks a deep vein of populism in recessionary America, and a wide-ranging Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll ran into it. Some 48% of respondents chose Wal-Mart, though the mag notes an element of cynicism, as the firm that 'best symbolizes... More »

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health care • Michelle Obama • Vanity Fair • poll • recession • 60 Minutes • George Clooney • Wal-Mart

OPINION

 Rove: You're Boring Us, Obama 

Prez needs to get off TV, start working on better health plan

Sep 24, 09 1:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - If President Obama wants opponents to buy his health care plan he'll have to come with a better plan instead of trying to bore them into submission by repeating details of the one he's got, writes Karl Rove. With his recent round of TV appearances, "Obama made a classic... More »

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health care • Karl Rove • talk show • health care reform • bipartisanship • President Obama

opinion


 Hey, Dems: 
 Stop Whining 
 About Civility 
 and Fight Back! 

Dems could easily win this debate and should fight back instead of complaining

Sep 23, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democrats should be trying to land a few blows in the health care debate instead of meekly complaining about a lack of civility from the opposition, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal. The right wing has made the issue into a crusade for its vision of liberty,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Democrat • health care reform • President Obama • civility

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