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Health Care Reform Bill Summary: A Look At What's in the Bill - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Expands Medicaid to include 133 percent of federal poverty level which is $29,327 for a family of four.
healthcare  obama 
march 2010 by trustfundbaby
Majority of Poor, Young, Uninsured Back Healthcare Bill
While 49% of Americans overall say Congress' passing healthcare reform is a "good thing," support is greater among Americans who currently lack health insurance. Passage of the bill also enjoys broad support among two of the populations least likely to have health insurance: younger adults and adults living in lower-income households. Older, higher-income, and insured Americans have more mixed reactions. The lone exception is seniors, 54% of whom see passage of the bill as a negative.
healthcare  stats  statistics  polls 
march 2010 by trustfundbaby
The Take: Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price - washingtonpost.com
But former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich said Obama and the Democrats will regret their decision to push for comprehensive reform. Calling the bill "the most radical social experiment . . . in modern times," Gingrich said: "They will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years" with the enactment of civil rights legislation in the 1960s
democrats  obama  healthcare  gingrich 
march 2010 by trustfundbaby
Democrats win historic healthcare vote
Occasionally hurling abusive epithets at passing Democratic lawmakers, Tea Party protesters stood outside the Capitol Hill entrance chanting “Kill the bill”. According to observers, a handful of protesters shouted the racist “n-word” at black lawmakers.
gop  healthcare  obama  boehner  pelosi 
march 2010 by trustfundbaby
Liberal Revolt on Health Care Stings White House
Stung by the intense White House effort to court the votes of moderate holdouts like Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, and Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, liberals are signaling that they have compromised enough. Grass-roots groups are balking, liberal commentators are becoming more critical of the president, some unions are threatening to withhold support and Howard Dean, the former Democratic Party chief, is urging the Senate to kill its health bill.
healthcare  obama  politics 
december 2009 by trustfundbaby
Medicine: Baby Fae Loses Her Battle - TIME
So ended an extraordinary experiment that had captured the attention of the world and made medical history. For three weeks the 5-lb. infant had survived with the heart of a baboon—more than two weeks longer than any previous recipient of an animal heart.
healthcare  science  heart 
october 2009 by trustfundbaby
White House appears ready to drop 'public option' - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! News
Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Barack Obama's administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system.
healthcare  obama  gop  politics 
august 2009 by trustfundbaby
Anger clouds US healthcare debate
interesting observation of the healthcare 'debate'
obama  healthcare 
august 2009 by trustfundbaby
Why Americans hate single-payer insurance - Paul Krugman Blog
At a recent town-hall meeting in suburban Simpsonville, a man stood up and told Rep. Robert Inglis (R-S.C.) to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.”

“I had to politely explain that, ‘Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,’ ” Inglis recalled. “But he wasn’t having any of it.”
politics  healthcare 
july 2009 by trustfundbaby
U.S. House panel passes health bill, critics slam cost - Yahoo! News
A key U.S. congressional committee on Friday approved healthcare legislation that includes a hefty tax on the rich but critics pointed to fresh warnings that President Barack Obama's health reform plan would do little to rein in skyrocketing spending.

The House Ways and Means Committee agreed to raise taxes to pay for the plan's estimated $1 trillion cost in part by higher taxes on couples making more than $350,000. Critics argue that it would harm small businesses who fall into this tax category.
healthcare  obama  politics 
july 2009 by trustfundbaby
Cancer: shock breakthrough
The results were so startling that researchers decided to release details of the two cases before the drug trial – in which the patients took part – was complete. Doctors said their progress had exceeded all expectations. The men were treated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in the US, one of the top medical centres in the world.
cancer  healthcare  science 
june 2009 by trustfundbaby
Insurance industry lays down marker on health care - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! News
The insurance industry Tuesday laid down a marker on health care, warning in stark terms that a proposed government insurance plan would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for a half century and overtake the system.
healthcare 
june 2009 by trustfundbaby
Democrats getting bolder on gov't insurance plan
Democrats are becoming bolder about their idea that middle-class familes get the option of joining a government insurance plan in any overhaul of the health care system. Their fervor carries a risk.

Liberals, citing polls that show support for a public plan, say they are increasingly frustrated with negotiations to make the idea more palatable to Republicans. Moderates, however, warn that abandoning the talks could jeopardize efforts to draft a bill that can pass a closely divided Senate.
healthcare  obama 
june 2009 by trustfundbaby
Drug company deal may give Obama a boost
President Barack Obama on Monday hailed a deal with U.S. drug companies to cut prescription costs for the elderly, a move that could help him drive his ambitious healthcare reforms through Congress.

"This is a significant breakthrough on the road to healthcare reform, one that will make the difference in the lives of many older Americans," Obama said at the White House of the agreement struck with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America industry association.
healthcare  obama 
june 2009 by trustfundbaby
Obama to ask doctors to back his health care plans
The difficulty of his sales job was evident when he said he was against limiting awards in malpractice lawsuits, a top priority for doctors. That statement brought him a smattering of boos — a remarkable public response to a popular president accustomed to cheering audiences.
healthcare  obama 
june 2009 by trustfundbaby
Free Lipitor, Viagra, other drugs for jobless on Yahoo! News
Pfizer Inc. is unveiling a new program Thursday that will let people who have lost their jobs and health insurance keep taking some widely prescribed Pfizer medications — including Lipitor and Viagra — for free for up to a year.
healthcare  pfizer 
may 2009 by trustfundbaby
In troubled times, vasectomies snip and prosper - CNN.com
Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day.

Some urologists around the country are reporting increased numbers of patients coming in for vasectomies.

The schedule for Jones, a Cleveland, Ohio, urologist, has become more crowded during a recent boom in vasectomies.

"My staff came to me and said, what's happening?" said Jones, the chairman of the Department of Regional Urology of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. "Why are we suddenly having an explosion in guys asking for vasectomies?"
science  healthcare 
march 2009 by trustfundbaby
Lots Of Red Meat Increases Mortality Risk
e largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of death from heart disease and cancer. The federal study of more than half a million men and women bolsters prior evidence of the health risks of diets laden with red meat like hamburger and processed meats like hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts.
healthcare 
march 2009 by trustfundbaby
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