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Las Vegas : NV : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe votes for the Democratic health care reform bill in Washington
    U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe votes for the Democratic health care reform ...
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  • Senator Baucus shakes hands with Senator Rockefeller after passing the health care bill in Washington
    Senator Baucus shakes hands with Senator Rockefeller after passing the ...
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  • U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement about health care at White House in Washington
    U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement about health care at ...
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  • U.S. Senator Max Baucus smiles before the Senate Finance Committee voted for the health care reform bill in Washington
    U.S. Senator Max Baucus smiles before the Senate Finance Committee ...
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  • U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe speaks to the press after voting for the health care reform bill in Washington
    U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe speaks to the press after voting for the ...
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  • U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe speaks to the press after voting for the health care bill in Washington
    U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe speaks to the press after voting for the ...
    Source: Reuters
  • U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe smiles after voting for the health care reform bill in Washington
    U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe smiles after voting for the health care ...
    Source: Reuters
  • U.S. Senator John Kerry votes in the health care reform bill in Washigton
    U.S. Senator John Kerry votes in the health care reform bill in ...
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U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe votes for the Democratic health care reform ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hails from the hard-rock mining town of Searchlight, Nev...But in what may be his biggest fight yet, Reid is playing referee. He is leading the effort to combine two sharply different health care bills.
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  • News Source: National Public Radio | about 1 month ago
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hails from the hard-rock mining town of Searchlight, Nev...But in what may be his biggest fight yet, Reid is playing referee. He is leading the effort to combine two sharply different health care bills.
  • News Source: The New York Times | about 1 month ago
    Deep fissures among Senate Democrats became evident on Thursday as lawmakers moved closer to a floor debate on legislation to remake the health care system. The divisions involved two issues: whether the government should sell health insurance , in...
  • News Source: The Hill | about 1 month ago
    A pay-as-you-go statute, which has long been a dream of the conservative Blue Dog Democrats, has been embraced by House Democratic leaders and backed by President Barack Obama. But leading Democrats in the Senate have labeled it an impossible lift.
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | about 1 month ago
    A bill introduced in the Senate this week would block the 21% Medicare pay cut for doctors scheduled to take effect for doctors next year. Blocking the cut would increase the government’s costs by more than $200 billion over the course of a decade.
  • News Source: Fox News | about 1 month ago
    Washington is seeking to spend $245 billion of your money to keep Medicare doctors from being hit with steep cuts in federal reimbursement fees without enacting any separate spending cuts or tax increases.  And moderate Senate Democrats are not...
  • News Source: The Hill | about 1 month ago
    Wednesday to review legislative strategy to prevent the cuts. “We address these physician payment cuts every year,” said Reid. “This is nothing different from what we’ve done before. This is a flawed formula and we know we have to fix the...
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  • Blog Source: washingtonindependent.com
    The difference in cost between those approaches is nearly $220 billion. Here's the problem. Created in 1997, the so-called Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula was designed to prevent Medicare doctor payments from skyrocketing by indexing ... But
  • Blog Source: foundry.heritage.org
    According to the Associated Press, at the direction of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senate Democrats are plotting to pass a bill, by as early as next week, that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a ...
  • Blog Source: wwwsecondchance.blogspot.com
    The position is surprising because centrist Democrats such as Ross, chairman of the Blue Dogs' healthcare task force, have resisted a public insurance option with rates tied to Medicare. Centrist Democrats who can support a public plan ...
  • Blog Source: www.democraticunderground.com
    Senators said they plan to ease a proposed tax on high-end insurance plans after unions protested that it would hurt too many workers. Lawmakers may also shield doctors from the threat of cuts in payments from the Medicare program for the ...
  • Blog Source: race42008.com
    Democrats have admitted many times already they will make cuts to Medicare. The money has to come from somewhere; same issue for how the whole Health Care Deform bill(s) will be funded. There are only 2 sources of money: increase taxes, ...
  • Blog Source: blogs.reuters.com
    And Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, has just introduced a bill that would actually increase Medicare fees to doctors by $247 billion over the next decade That $247 billion should, by all rights, be added to the cost of the ...
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