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Senate vote next step on health bill road

The Senate is expected to hold a procedural vote Saturday night. Even if Reid gets 60 votes Saturday, a long road lies ahead Health care faces a tougher fight in the Senate than in the House House, Senate versions would need to...

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Not to our health

Existing gov’t plans rife with quackery By Deroy Murdock Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Fraud devours some $60 billion - or 13.3 percent - of Medicare’s $452 billion budget. Another recent report uncovered $18.1 billion in...

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Your Prescription is Ready

Someone forwarded me this via email and it was too good not to share. I’m not sure of the original source, but if anyone can identify it for me, I’m happy to credit it. UPDATE: Near as I can tell, the logo at the bottom appears...

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Consumers’ guide to health reform

How do the House and Senate bills differ? By Julie Appleby, Mary Agnes Carey, Phil Galewitz and Jordan Rau The health care overhaul debate in Congress now centers on two bills: the House measure and the Senate Democrats'...

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The Coming Deficit Disaster

The president says he understands the urgency of our fiscal crisis, but his policies are the equivalent of steering the economy toward an iceberg. Recently, the White House signaled that it will get serious about reducing the...

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The Health-Care Buffet

The obesity bubble is in no danger of bursting. By ALLYSIA FINLEY While lawmakers like to vilify insurance and pharmaceutical companies for driving up health-care costs to make fat profits, obesity is actually a far bigger...

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NM Considers Scaling Back Medicaid Coverage

New Mexico Considers Medicaid Overhaul To Cut Costs Because Of Looming Budget Shortfall (AP) SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson's administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid and scale back health care services to...

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Senate to Vote on Health Care Bill Saturday

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released a Senate version of the government health care overhaul, weighing in at a massive 2,074 pages . McClatchy news reports , "The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter,...

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Texas' physician-owned hospitals may be in danger

scream “upscale hotel,” not “demise of American health care.” And as lawmakers in Washington hammer out a health care reform bill to expand access and control costs, these physician-owned facilities — a quarter of them in Texas...

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'Bipartisan' Purple Dogs Go Rogue with 'Task Force' on Social Security, Medicare

Posted on Nov 20, 2009 11:17:00 AM by Eming Piansay [ filed under: health ] Progressive advocates for elders must be wondering, “With Democrats like that, who needs Republicans?â€_ Last week, the Senate Budget Committee held...

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