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National insurance tipped to rise in Darling tax clawback

Published Date: 21 November 2009 CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling is set to target national insurance and inheritance tax in next month's Pre-Budget Report as he looks to plug gaping holes in the public purse, experts have...

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Senate vote next step on what could be a long road for health care

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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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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Landrieu Wins U.S. Aid as Senate Health Vote Looms (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, one of three lawmakers being wooed by Senate Democratic leaders to back health-care legislation, won the inclusion of an extra $100 million in federal aid for...

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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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Delaware Physicians Care Named One of Top Medicaid Plans In the Nation by U.S. News & World...

DOVER, Del.----For the second year in a row, Delaware Physicians Care has been selected as one of the top 25 Medicaid Plans out of hundreds in the nation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and U.S.

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Taxes Proposed to Pay for Health Care Reform

The U.S. Senate recently released its long-awaited proposal for a government-run hostile takeover of the entire U.S. health care system. An important addition to the list of tax hikes included in the Senate bill was an increase...

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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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Web Exclusive: Morbid Symptoms, Current Healthcare Struggles (Canadian Dimension Blog)

Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have just brought out the 2010 annual volume of the Socialist Register, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, published by Merlin Press in London, Monthly Review Press in the US and Fernwood Books...

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