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Liberals to GOP Lawmakers: Decline Health Insurance

Progressives say they should reject government coverage

(Newser) - Progressives are issuing a challenge to incoming Republican House members: If they are so dead-set on repealing health care reform, they shouldn't accept the taxpayer-funded congressional health plan. The fracas started when newly elected Rep. Andy Harris made a fuss during an orientation because his coverage didn't begin right away,...

1B Can't Afford Health Care: WHO

Health costs push 100M into poverty yearly

(Newser) - A billion people worldwide can’t afford health care, and paying for it drives 100 million people into poverty annually, a World Health Organization report says. The global report says all countries should seek creative ways to boost health-care efficiency and funding, Reuters reports. “For many, health services just...

US Dialysis System a Costly Horror
US Dialysis System a
Costly Horror
investigation
Nov 9, 2010 1:01 PM CST

US Dialysis System a Costly Horror

America spends more than anyone, yet sees more patients die

(Newser) - America’s Medicare dialysis program, once seen as a triumph for the masses, has become a “hulking monster,” writes Robin Fields in an exhaustive ProPublica investigation. Since 1972, treatment has been provided, through Medicare, for virtually anyone with kidney failure, regardless of age or income. Today, the US...

Republicans Look to Hobble Health Reform

May force partisan standoff

(Newser) - The GOP may not have the votes to repeal health care reform, but they're still setting their sights on it. Incoming Republicans say they plan to curtail the controversial law by finding creative ways to hobble it, finds the New York Times . They may, for instance, cut funding and personnel...

Dear GOP, Health Care Law Will Save Money
Dear GOP, Health Care Law Will Save Money
peter orszag
Nov 4, 2010 2:00 PM CDT

Dear GOP, Health Care Law Will Save Money

Peter Orszag: Best way to cut costs is to keep the law in place

(Newser) - The midterms have brought Republican lawmakers to power on Capitol Hill who are determined to cut government spending. These legislators are also dead-set against allowing the health care reform act to take effect, but that's a shame because it contains some of the most effective cost-cutting measures out there, writes...

Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to ObamaCare

He says the insurance mandate is legal

(Newser) - A federal judge today rejected an attempt to stop key provisions of the new national health care law, saying Congress has the authority to require people to get insurance by 2014. The ruling—the first challenge to the Obama administration's overhaul—came in a lawsuit filed in Michigan by a...

Doctors Need to Work Weekends


 Doctors Need to 
 Work Weekends 
Peter Orszag
Oct 4, 2010 11:21 AM CDT

Doctors Need to Work Weekends

Peter Orszag: No one wants to work Saturdays, but we need them to

(Newser) - If we're serious about raising the quality of health care while lowering its cost, doctors need to do two things: The first is suck it up and work weekends, writes Peter Orszag. There are plenty of compelling reasons: People who are hospitalized on Saturdays and Sundays don't fare so well,...

What GOP Will Do With a House Majority

Republicans will cut off cash to key Dem initiatives

(Newser) - If Republicans win the House in November, they’ll highlight their differences with Democrats by starving signature policies—like health care—of cash, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although the GOP hopes to repeal the health care bill in the House, such a measure would likely fail in the Senate,...

Carter's Big Health Care Villain: Ted Kennedy

Former president blasts his former political rival in interview, book

(Newser) - For a man with the Nobel Peace Prize on his mantel, Jimmy Carter sure can hold a grudge. In an interview with 60 Minutes airing Sunday, he goes after Ted Kennedy—who challenged the incumbent president for the Democratic nomination in 1980—on two fronts, reports the Boston Globe :
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Anti-AARP Group Launching
 Anti-AARP Group Launching  
Sep 13, 2010 7:22 AM CDT

Anti-AARP Group Launching

Alliance for Retirement Prosperity is against 'ObamaCare'

(Newser) - The American Association of Retired Persons ... sounds so non-threatening, right? Yet an anti-AARP group is coming out swinging against the nonprofit. Led by a longtime Republican adviser and head of the Social Security Institute, the Alliance for Retirement Prosperity will launch Wednesday with the goals of repealing the Obama administration's...

Companies Shift Health Costs to Employees

Even as insurance premium growth slows

(Newser) - Employers foisted a lot more health insurance costs onto their employees this year than last, even though premiums only inched upwards, according to an annual survey. Though premiums for businesses rose just 3% this year—their lowest increase in a decade—the cost the average employee was paying jumped 14%,...

GOP's New Health Reform Trick: Don't Fund It

Boehner and Co. know a repeal's impossible

(Newser) - Republicans threatening to repeal health reform is nothing new, but the GOP is realizing the futility of that and moving on to a new tactic: denying funding to pieces of the bill. "Clearly, with the president’s veto pen, we’re going to have to take interim steps,”...

In North Korea, Surgery Comes Without Anesthetic

Nation's health care is in crisis, says Amnesty International

(Newser) - North Korea spends the least amount of money per capita on health care of any country in the world—less than $1 per person a year—and it's getting what it pays for, according to an Amnesty International report. Defectors and health professionals who work with North Koreans tell of...

More Doctors Turning Away Medicare Patients

Complain that rates, which were just cut, are too low

(Newser) - Medicare rates were cut 21% on Friday—even as more doctors say they’re limiting the number of Medicare patients they’ll see and just 6 months before millions of Baby Boomers flood the program. The American Medical Association tells the USA Today that 17% of doctors surveyed limit the...

New Program Pays People to Take Their Medicine

Cost-saving idea, or slippery slope?

(Newser) - Chiquita Parker used to sometimes forget to take her lupus medication. But now the 25-year-old single mom remembers religiously, because she’s part of a Philadelphia program that enters her to win up to $100 every time she remembers to down a pill. In six months, she’s made $300....

GOP Gunning for Obama Health Nominee

Blocking appointment is one way to re-open health care debate

(Newser) - Republicans have their knives out for Donald Berwick, President Obama's nominee to run Medicare and Medicaid. Berwick, a pediatrician and Harvard prof who runs a nonprofit aimed at cutting hospital errors, as well as costs, is a fan of Britain's single-payer health National Health Service, they note; he once declared...

Bloomberg: Bomber Angry &mdash;Say, Over Health Bill
 Bloomberg: Bomber Angry 
 —Say, Over Health Bill  
not-so-smart remark
May 4, 2010 6:33 AM CDT

Bloomberg: Bomber Angry —Say, Over Health Bill

Mayor makes wrong call on Times Square suspect

(Newser) - Bloomberg's pick for the Times Square bomber? An anti-health bill nut. Before Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested trying to flee the country last night , Mayor Bloomberg told Katie Couric he thought the bomb was probably planted by a "homegrown" terrorist. "Maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody...

US Lags in Preventing Early Death

 US Lags in 
 Preventing 
 Early Death 
iceland is tops
Apr 30, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

US Lags in Preventing Early Death

Obesity, smoking blamed as US falls behind in death rate before 60

(Newser) - America is lagging far behind other countries in preventing premature death among adults and now ranks behind Chile, Tunisia, and Peru, warn the authors of a new study. The researchers analyzed data on deaths before age 60 and found that over the last 20 years, the US has tumbled from...

Nevada GOP Candidate Makes Palin Look Smart

'Chickens for check-ups?'

(Newser) - The GOP front-runner in Nevada's senate race is taking flak for a health care policy idea so stupid it makes Sarah Palin seem like "a pointy-headed policy wonk," writes Eugene Robinson. Sue Lowden has seriously suggested that the people in her highly urbanized state barter with doctors like...

Tea Party MC: Conservative Women Are Smarter, Hotter

MC at rally really digs Palin's look

(Newser) - The MC at yesterday's Tea Party rally in Boston floated a new reason to swing to the right politically: Conservative women are sexier than their left-of-center peers. Coming on just after Sarah Palin, sporting a red leather jacket, spoke on Obama, oil and energy, he commented, "You hear that...

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