A very complex, mandatory private insurance scheme recently passed the US House. The public is being overwhelmed by sound bites on one hand about how great it is, on the other, how terrible. We are hearing few of the details that are …
Read Original Story: We Need Health Care, Not Insurance – CounterPunch
A historic US House of Representatives health care bill would have little direct effect on roughly two-thirds of Hawai’i’s population though proponents say it may ultimately lead to a blunting of increases in costs. …
Read Original Story: Health care reform won't have much effect on Hawaii coverage – Honolulu Advertiser
At last the House of Representative has done something about the catastrophic health care in this country. Personally, I would wish they had eliminated the for-profit insurance companies from the discussion altogether, regulated doctor’s outrageous …
Read Original Story: Health care reform bill is a pretty good start – Asheville Citizen-Times
by kyw’s Larry Kane A new report, largely under reported in the last few days, could be a deal breaker in health care reform. The report by Richard S. Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, a non-partisan government watchdog group, …
Read Original Story: Non-Partisan Report Bad News for Health Care Reform – KYW1060.com
WASHINGTON —With a huge number of residents who buy health care on their own and relatively few companies selling them coverage, California is just the kind of market in need of a new government-run insurance plan, supporters of the …
Read Original Story: How would government-run health insurance affect California? – San Jose Mercury News
I’m hoping, for your sake, that you didn’t spend a recent Saturday night as I did: watching the House debate health care reform on C-SPAN the weekend before last. Pathetic, I know. The outcome wasn’t in doubt, and the arguments were as …
Read Original Story: GOP twists facts about the House health care plan – Atlanta Journal Constitution
WASHINGTON — Overall spending on health care would rise as a result of legislation approved a week ago by the House, and billions of dollars in projected savings contained in the measure will be difficult to maintain, according to a report by a top …
Read Original Story: GOP leaps on study of rising health care costs – The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The health insurance reform bill approved by the House on Nov. 7 could add more than 318000 Oklahomans to the state’s Medicaid program and cost the state $128 million more each year, according to estimates from …
Read Original Story: Health bill could raise Oklahoma's costs – NewsOK.com
The report issued by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” would increase health care costs from the current level of 20.8 percent of GDP up to 21.1 percent a decade …
Read Original Story: Report: House Health Care Bill INCREASES Costs By $289 Billion – Big Government (blog)
This morning’s newsletter from the Heritage Foundation raised a number of valid concerns regarding Obama’s plan for health care. Most interesting (and alarming), however, is the great discrepancy between Obama’s promises and the reality before us. …
Read Original Story: ObamaCare won't be what it seems – Examiner.com
