Health care reform and buying coverage across state lines

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now that that’s over, Congress is back in session, and the Senate is tackling the health care reform issue.
One of the things that is being discussed in reforming our health insurance system is allowing people to buy insurance plans from other states where they might be able [...]

Health Care Cuts Draw Criticism

A proposal by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to cut 300,000 people from the health care plan for the poor will likely “increase the misery index,” a Prescott doctor said.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger, chief medical officer for the Yavapai Regional Medical Center and a rheumatologist with a private practice, said about 15 to 20 percent of the [...]

Health Care Bill Will Bankrupt The Nation

In January of 1838, a young man in Illinois speaking to a community organization (known as the Young Men’s Lyceum) in Springfield made the argument that an ambitious leader sometime in the future of the United States would leave the “beaten path” trod by previous leaders in order to gain distinction for himself. That “towering [...]

Colorado’s 2 senators criticize closed-door talks on health care reform

Democrats’ strategy for merging health care reform bills began to unravel under growing attacks Wednesday, including unexpected criticism from Colorado’s two Democratic senators.
Final negotiations on merging the bills began in earnest Wednesday as congressional leaders spent more than eight hours behind closed doors at the White House using a process that bypasses a formal conference [...]

Health Care Bill Would Bring Higher State Medicaid Costs

The health bill passed by the House of Representatives Sunday would cost Nevada taxpayers an extra $613 million from 2014-2019, to provide health care to the needy.
According to early state estimates, the bill would make an additional 70,000 residents eligible for Medicaid. The state would be mandated to cover another 8,000 individuals who are now [...]

Democratic Governors Voice Concern Over Health Care Bill

Republican governors are not alone in being concerned about what the proposed health care legislation might mean for their already overstrained budgets: Democrats share the same worries.         “We’ve got concerns,” Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware said in an interview Wednesday, hours before getting elected as the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. “And we’re doing [...]

Extending health care to more kids


OneWorld Community Health Center is looking for 6,000 kids.
The agency that generally provides health care to the underserved has received $706,264 from the federal government to create a program to enroll thousands of children in either of two government insurance programs for low-income children.
Many metro-area children are eligible but aren’t enrolled because their families don’t [...]

Nutritional Supplements – Why Should You Take Care


Nutritional supplements are becoming increasingly popular. As our population grows older and yet stays fitter we are all striving to slow the clock. What some people don realise is that some of the supplements are not merely harmless nutrients but that high levels can cause dangerous imbalances and some can even react harmfully with some [...]

Moderate Dems Reject Reconciliation To Pass Health Care


Two moderate Democratic Senators facing re-election battles this year said Tuesday they would oppose using a legislative tool that requires only 51 Senate votes to get health care legislation to President Barack Obama’s desk.
Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, called the move, known as reconciliation, “ill-advised,” while Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas, issued a news release rejecting the [...]

Gop Claims Health Care Plan Is Merely Camouflage


The White House issued proposals Monday for health care reform that have won kudos from several Democratic lawmakers, a sure sign, say Republicans, of how little GOP input is in the plan.
Republicans have agreed to show up at the White House Thursday for a summit on health care, but are heading there with a dim [...]

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