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Ditching the Public Option
The Health Care Blog -
98 days 15 hours 22 minutes ago
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI It looks to me like the popular objections to a health care bill being expressed by voters this month are concentrated in two...
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Obama slams health insurance 'lies'
ABC - 100 days 2 hours 29 minutes ago
Posted US President Barack Obama has accused American insurance companies of trying to undermine his plan to overhaul the country's health care...
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Conservative Mainstays and Fledgling Advocacy Groups Drive Health-Reform Opposition
Washington Post - 99 days 19 hours 36 minutes ago
The rowdy protests that threaten President Obama's health-care reform efforts have been spurred on by a loose network of activists -- from veteran...
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Backdoor single payer will not happen, but something good will
Running a Hospital - 99 days 11 hours 51 minutes ago
On Friday, Jack Beatty, appearing on Tom Ashbrook's WBUR program On Point, honestly revealed all about the President's hope for a public insurance...
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Under the Microscope
The debate over health care has become an all-out battle, as the administration, lawmakers and a panoply of interest groups vie to promote their...
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Return of the Co-ops
GoozNews -
98 days 8 hours 43 minutes ago
The Obama administration is backtracking on its support of including a public plan option in health insurance reform. Back in June, I sensed that...
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Prospects fade for public health-insurance option
MarketWatch - 98 days 8 hours 25 minutes ago
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Can Social Media Save Healthcare Reform?
The Health Care Blog -
98 days 1 hour 41 minutes ago
By Daniel Palestrant Speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm Technology Conference last month, longtime healthcare reform advocate, Howard Dean pointed...
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Health Cooperatives Gain Backing as Alternative to Public Option
As prospects fade for a public, or government-run, option as part of health-care reform, key senators are considering another model to create...
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Health-Care Co-ops: Fig Leaf or Fix?
BusinessWeek -
97 days 20 hours 6 minutes ago
By Steve LeVine and Esmé E. Deprez Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) says he is trying to revive apparently deadlocked health-care talks by pushing...
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Co-Ops: The Single Dumbest Idea?
GoozNews -
97 days 11 hours 12 minutes ago
Bob Laszewski, a health insurance industry consultant whose views on cost control I respect a lot, ran this blog post on June 23rd, and he...
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Insurance reform is not health care
ZDNet - 97 days 9 hours 53 minutes ago
In what is called the big debate over “health reform” now approaching a climax around the country, the solutions offered by both parties focus...
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Neither Quick Nor Easy
The Health Care Blog -
97 days 11 hours 3 minutes ago
By THOMAS L. GREANEY The idea of establishing regional cooperatives, advanced as an alternative to President Obama’s public plan option, has...
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Why Replacing The Public Option With A Cooperative Is A Very Bad Idea
Wonk Room -
97 days 7 hours 27 minutes ago
Since the administration suggested that it’s not committed to a “robust” public health insurance option, supporters of Sen. Kent Conrad’s...
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Health Care Check-Up
Forbes - 97 days 5 hours 31 minutes ago
Feeling a bit lost in the debate over health care reform? It's understandable. America's health care system was already confusing even before...
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- idea of establishing regional cooperatives (http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatme...)
- best option to lower costs (http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/...)
- another way of saying a government plan (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/p...)
- would oppose a health care reform bill that didn’t contain a public option (http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08...)
- any other name is still government health care (http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/08/re...)
- very difficult to start up a new insurance company (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...)
- poses this challenge (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200...)
- emphasized other complaints about Obama’s proposals (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/18...)
- I’m not going to be for that (http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/18/po...)
- benefits the very people who have given us a failed system (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/opinion/...)
- MGMA Calls For Careful Design and Testing of Meaningful Use
- Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Layoffs, Lakeside Absorbed, ASCs Rake in Profits, Retail Clinics Forecast to Grow, and More
- The House Busts The Budget By Passing a "Doc Fix"
- Grassley's Attack on Reform Belies Some Earlier Stands
- Senate's Unified Reform Bill Owes Much to Finance Committee
- White House Puts Focus On Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
- Hospitals Recovering From Recession Woes
- Doctor Shortage Is Worsening, Say Hospital CEOs
- Interest Groups Redouble Fight on Healthcare Reform
- Kerry Bill Would Help Physicians Borrow Money For EHRs
- Provider Cost Reports Have Little Impact on Consumer Choice
- Hospital Mergers Are A Major Health Cost Driver
- Comparison of Health Reform Bills Reveals Key issues
- New Mexico Information Exchange Shows Potential of Obama HIT Campaign
- House Health-Care Reform Bill Deserves Public Support
- More Insurance Competition Will Not Reduce Costs
- No Rationing, Say Experts, But Public Doesn't Hear
- Some Health Reform Questions for The President
- Interest Groups Redouble Fight on Healthcare Reform
- NEJM Roundtable on Health Cost Control Offers Insights
- House Health-Care Reform Bill Deserves Public Support
- House Health Reform Bill Does Not Please Many in Health Care
- White House Puts Focus On Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
- Why So Many Insured People Have Big Medical Debts
- Physicians Know We Need Reform
- Healthcare Roundup: Medical Office Space in Demand, Blues Companies See Lower Income, Two Sides of Health Insurance, and More
- Hospital Chain's Turnaround Raises Health Spending
- Healthcare Is Still Adding Jobs, Despite Recession
- The Rationing Debate Starts To Heat Up
- Right-Sizing The Physician Workforce
- Physicians Finally Getting Help to Become Medical Homes
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