Maine senators open to overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) Another Republican senator says she s open to voting for a sweeping health care overhaul this year. Maine Sen. Susan Collins said today the status quo is unaccaptable and she shares the goal of passing responsible health care legisl...
 6.3K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 563.0 Interest groups take aim at health taxes
WASHINGTON Insurance companies, unions, medical device makers and others in the health care industry are furiously lobbying lawmakers to shift burdens onto someone else anyone else before they find themselves saddled with billions of dollars in...
5.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 605.0 Wait for health care benefits is 3 years under reform bill
WASHINGTON Sixty years is how long Democrats say they ve been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They ll have to wait another three if President Barack Obama gets a bill to sign this year. Under the Democrat...
5.9K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 632.0 Insurer dumps Medicare patients
As many as 1,300 Coos County residents enrolled in a Medicare Advantage organization will need to find a new insurance carrier starting Jan. 1. A change could cost them from $17 to nearly $200 more per month for the private insuranc...
4.8K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 Morality, self-interest and your health
I can t tell you how many foreign leaders who are heads of center-right governments say to me, I don t understand why people would call you socialist. In my country, you d be considered a conservative. President Barack Obama, Sept. 20, 2009 There ...
4.3K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 421.0 Rules can prevent exploitation
The plutocratic propaganda just keeps flowing. In his recent competition column (The World, Sept. 17), John Stossel touts all the advantages of unregulated market competition, if government would only get out of the way. He must know the last thing b...
2.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 379.0 We need more doctors, nurses
Quality, affordable health care does not necessarily come by simply having an insurance policy, regardless to how the policy is paid for. It would appear that some forms of health care insurance actually do provide good health care, if you happen be ...
2.5K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 421.0 Iffy math is part of health care plan
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation s health care system without adding one dime to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the de...
7.8K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 754.0 Iffy math is part of health care plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation s health care system without adding one dime to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the de...
8.0K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 754.0 Once Medicare's foe, GOP now shifts to defend it
NEW YORK Weren t Republicans against Medicare before they were for it? It s a question vexing Democrats in the fierce battle over President Barack Obama s push for a health care overhaul as the head of the Republican Party has portrayed the GOP as ...
7.0K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 747.0 Seniors vocal on health care
SPRINGFIELD, Va. Turns out you can fear a government takeover of health care even if the government already took over your health care. How else to explain the reservations of seniors like 85-year-old Dee Jollie, who are covered by Medicare, the go...
5.4K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 593.0 | 
