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Florida's a model for Medicare fraud and the fight to stop it
Miramar :: FL :: USA | about 1 hour ago
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The nation's leaders are looking to South Florida, a cauldron of swindles by and against the elderly, for lessons on how to stem Medicare fraud to help pay for a health care overhaul. Miami is the leading example of Medicare fraud, and its influence is...
Tags: health care, South Florida, Miami-Dade County, Medicare Fraud Strike Force, University of Miami, southeast Florida, Miramar, Health Medical Pharma, Medicare fraud, United States National Health Care Act, Health care reform in the United States, Politics, Fraud, Insurance fraud, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medicare
Health care bill with the public option guaranteed to pass
The cable networks and other news organizations like to pretend there is some doubt, some suspense, as to the outcome of the health care bill including the public option. There isnt. But they act like there is some doubt ...
Tags: health care reform, health care, health, Tom Harkin, public option
Patients access to cancer drug extended by Health Ministry
Toronto :: Canada | about 6 hours ago
Credibility Ontario cancer patients fighting colorectal tumours will now have extended access to a pricey drug. Two months after the province's ombudsperson said the previous 16-week cap on Avastin treatment "verges on cruelty," the Ministry of Health announced it...
Tags: cancer drug, expanding access, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Colorectal cancer, Bevacizumab, Cancer, Monoclonal antibodies, Business Finance, Ombudsman, Swine influenza, flu pandemic, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health care, Pandemics, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Health Canada
China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Beijing :: China | about 7 hours ago
Credibility China — Unable to rely on China's broken health care system, the Ji family was desperate. Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills. So an uncle cobbled together...
Tags: health care, China, Beijing, Health Medical Pharma, Healthcare, Health economics, Universal health care, Social Issues, Health insurance, Health policy, Health care in the United States, Health care system
Understanding Our Hollow "Centrists"
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Joe Conason, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed The puzzling thing about politicians of either party who claim to be "centrist" or "moderate" is how much they sometimes sound like party-line right-wing Republicans. Distinguishing among these species of politicians...
Tags: public option, Lambert Lincoln, health care, Arkansas, Afghanistan, Kabul, Health Medical Pharma, Public health insurance option, Health care reform in the United States, Politics, Blanche Lincoln, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health care reform debate in the United States, Health insurance, Filibuster
Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind Stars and Stripes
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Sustaining a progressive movement based on shared politics requires not only unification on positive values, but an understanding of the opposition and their tactics. Analysis of the various elements of opposition can do much to improve our own eyesight...
Tags: John Birch Society, U.S, president obama, United States of America, John Birchers, American Immigration Reform, health care, care reform, New York City, Birch, Denialism, Barack Obama, Politics, Social Issues, United States presidential election, Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, Human rights in the United States
Turbulence ahead: Senate opens health care debate
Simi Valley :: CA :: USA | about 10 hours ago
Credibility But Reid is determined to avoid being remembered as another Democrat who tried and failed to make health care access for the middle class a part of America's social safety net. "Generation after generation has called on us to fix this broken system,"...
Tags: Senate, Reid, health care, Simi Valley, Health care reform in the United States, Politics, Abortion, Social Issues, 111th United States Congress, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health insurance, Olympia Snowe, Insurance, Abortion in the United States
Reliable, unbiased answers hard to find in health-care debate
Columbus :: OH :: USA | about 14 hours ago
Credibility With all of the TV and radio commercials, newspaper ads, billboards and the different bills being debated in Washington, it's difficult for average Americans to understand how health-care reform would affect them. Interest groups -- doctors, hospitals,...
Tags: web sites, Columbus, Health Medical Pharma, Health economics, Healthcare, Health care, Universal health care, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health insurance, Universal healthcare, Labor
Give 'em health, Harry, in terms we can understand
Las Vegas :: NM :: USA | about 14 hours ago
Credibility According to the Truman Library Web site, "The American Medical Association (AMA) launched a spirited attack against the bill, capitalizing on fears of Communism in the public mind. The AMA characterized the bill as 'socialized medicine,' and in a forerunner...
Tags: Harry Reid, Harry S. Truman, health care, Truman White House, TrumanCare, Las Vegas, Health economics, Harry S. Truman, Politics, Presidency of Harry S. Truman, Social Issues, Socialized medicine, Health insurance, American Medical Association
Medicaid key issue in reform
Wilmington :: NC :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility But enrolling in the program was a struggle, made all the more difficult because of his chemotherapy treatments, said Danette Butler, his fiancee. He eventually enrolled in time to get a bone marrow transplant last year. "It took a lot of fighting to...
Tags: Senate, senate bills, U.S. House, James Redding, house bills, health insurance, Wilmington, health care, Health Medical Pharma, TennCare, United States National Health Care Act, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Healthcare in the United States, Medicare, Medicaid
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