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Health insurance for children in doubt
L.A. NOWFederal health officials are casting doubt on a last-gasp funding scheme by California to keep nearly 700,000 children from being yanked from a government health insurance program for the working poor. U.S. health officials say the plan adopted by the....... -
Ornaments on Senate healthcare Christmas tree -- boon to pharmaceutical, insurance companies?
Top of the TicketWhile many Americans were sleeping, at 1:18 this morning, the Senate cleared President Obama's healthcare bill over a procedural hurdle, presaging a Christmas Eve vote. Or, more accurately, Senate Democrats did. On a strict 60-40 vote, Democrats, joined... -
Price of Ben Nelson's vote: City guy Chuck Schumer hunts
Top of the TicketNo doubt you've heard about what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had to pay to win Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson's vote on the healthcare bill. It was an exemption from Nebraska's share of Medicaid expansion, amounting to about $100 million...... -
Federal report finds persistent mistakes and poor oversight at UC Irvine Medical Center [Updated]
L.A. NOWFederal investigators found dozens of problems at UC Irvine Medical Center during a fall inspection that again put the troubled hospital’s Medicare funding at risk, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In the 85-page.... -
Laying the foundation
The campaign for comprehensive healthcare reform reaches its make-or-break point Sunday, when the House could vote to send the Senate's proposal to the president's desk -- or to kill it. Although the vote will be shrouded in a procedural controversy,...Tags: Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Corporate Crime, Corruption
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In his own words: President Obama makes his healthcare case to still-worried senior citizens
Top of the TicketThe Democrat presidential professor explains his signed healthcare legislation at a tele-town hall in Maryland.... -
Weekly remarks: Pat Roberts on evils of recess appointments, Obama on GOP obstruction
Top of the TicketRepublicans worry over more regulations on healthcare while Obama says the GOP is blocking the Democratic majorities in Congress.... -
The reality of rationing
Opponents of the main Democratic proposals for healthcare reform warn that consumers would be stopped from getting the care they need when they need it. President Obama's plan is "rationing," one political strategist blogged. It's an unrealistic...Tags: Government, Social Issues, Healthcare Policies, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Covering the uninsured: A cost that pays
Access to affordable healthcare in the United States is an entitlement, a perquisite or a fantasy, depending on a seemingly arbitrary matrix of factors. Government insurance programs are available for the elderly, the permanently disabled, people with...Tags: Politics, Wages and Pensions, Illegal Immigrants, Medicare, Personal Income
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Reliable nursing home information can be difficult to get
When Woodland Hills resident Amy Regenstreif was diagnosed with cancer in 2001, it was her elderly mother she worried about most.
The survival rate for Regenstreif's cancer, a rare form called leiomyosarcoma, was only five years and she worried that...Tags: Social Issues, Weather, Death, Health Insurance, Judaism
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Diagnosing the problem
Legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system hasn't emerged from congressional committees, yet it has gained enough momentum for the demonization of the reform effort to start in earnest. For example, Republican strategist Karl Rove called it...Tags: Barack Obama, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Wages and Pensions, General Motors Corp.
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Preventing Medicare and Social Security from going broke
Today's topic: At what point in the economic recovery can Washington turn its attention to addressing the impending insolvency of Medicare and Social Security? Dean Baker and Maya MacGuineas finish their debate on the relationship between unemployment...Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Wages and Pensions, Social Security, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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