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All Parties Ignore the One Way to Reduce Healthcare Costs: Single-Payer
In a recent full-page newspaper advertisement, IBM touted massive medical savings through computerization. It's a promise they've made before, starting with a report issued in 1961. If only these promises were true. For 50
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Paperwork results in wasted work for doctors, insurers and patients
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 3 years ago
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A combination of circumstances has led to massive hassles costing me what is easily 100 hours of checking, rechecking, e-mailing, and phone calling over the last 3 months. And still the explanation of benefits forms don't provide the correct out-of-
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Sebelius: Rationing Advocate is ‘Absolutely Right Leader At This Time’ to Run Medicare
London :: United Kingdom | 3 years ago
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday that Dr. Donald Berwick, an advocate of health-care rationing nominated by President Barack Obama to run Medicare and Medicaid, is absolutely the right leader at this time to run
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A practical guide forward for progressives on healthcare
Boston :: MA :: USA | 3 years ago
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President Barack Obama signs the healthcare legislation during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 23, 2010. Two months after it became law, many progressives are still simmering over healthcare reform, convinced that
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National Healthcare Insurance Isn’t Enough: Six Crucial Steps To Improve Healthcare
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 years ago
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PhD Healthcare reform has finally made its way through the U.S. political machinery, emerging with a $1 trillion reform plan extending health insurance to 32 million additional Americans and eliminating other barriers to healthcare insurance. To be
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Hundreds of Single-Payer Healthcare Advocates Rally in Vermont (WATCH)
Hopeful that Montpelier can do what Washington didn’t, hundreds of people who want single-payer healthcare gathered in Vermont’s capital last Saturday, The Associated Press has reported. They sang songs on the steps of
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Open Letter to my Friend Norman Goldman
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 [Revised: 02.16.2010 10:30 PM] To: Norman Goldman, The Norman Goldman Radio Show [www.normangoldman.com] From: Bob Levin, Bob Levin for Congress 2010, Oregon’s
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Liberalism Dead - Not Much Left
That this country still leans strongly Center-Right is no longer a matter of opinion. Close to 80% of Americans identify themselves as either Conservative or Moderate these days. The results of last Tuesdays Special election made that
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4 Demonstrators in Favor of Healthcare Reform Arrested at Lieberman’s Office
According to WTNH, protesters who are miffed about Joe Lieberman’s position against the current healthcare reform package held demonstrations yesterday at his offices in Washington, DC and Hartford. 30 people showed up at
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Health Care Activists Arrested at Aetna Offices
Nineteen health care activists were arrested this morning after conducting a sit-in at the offices of the health insurance company Aetna. The protesters demanded that Aetna officials immediately approve all procedures which were recommended by
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