Proposed federal health care reform legislation does nothing to help save money or have better health care. It is designed to let the government intrude into the most personal aspects of a person’s life. People want reform, not more government takeover …
Read Original Story: Random Thoughts: Don't break it – Online Athens
Small businesses, hammered by stiff premium increases, are badly in need of a better business model for providing health care to their employees. They won’t find it in the so-called reform of health care being rammed through Congress by Democratic …
Read Original Story: Contain health care costs with three strategies – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Thanksgiving recess came not a moment too soon for this harried, splintered 111th US Congress, and especially for the world’s greatest deliberative body, the US Senate. Deliberative? What a bad joke. The senators’ conversation about health care reform …
Read Original Story: Needed pause: Thanksgiving recess a blessing for harried Congress, hurried … – Houston Chronicle
Until a few months ago, neither Hampton nor his 4-year-old daughter, Jasene, had health insurance. Recently, Hampton applied for and received health insurance through the State Children’s Health Insurance …
Read Original Story: Uninsured in Virginia: Health care reform bills hold promise for low-income … – Daily Press
Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer The so-called "public option" is one of the most contentious elements of health care reform, which has sparked protests and rallies across the country. Here, members of the Cleveland …
Read Original Story: If federal health care reform includes an "opt-out" provision, would Ohio use it? – Plain Dealer
The two most recent Rasmussen polls show rising opposition to the health-care reform proposals now pending before Congress, and a more favorable overall impression of the American health-care system as it now stands. Yesterday, Rasmussen Reports …
Read Original Story: Two recent polls spell trouble for Obama health care reforms – Examiner.com
I thought it was only in Canada and other countries that people had to wait for months for an appointment with a specialist. My husband’s sister has to wait two months to have a consultation for a herniated disc in her neck. Why does she have to wait? …
Read Original Story: Congress needs to pass health care reform now – Marietta Times
A good segment of the population have hoped that the health care reform process would do something about the three major problems of health care, spiraling out of control costs, lack of availability of insurance to much of the population, …
Read Original Story: The Health Insurance Reform Bill is a monstrously bad bill – Examiner.com
The status quo has allowed insurance companies to ride high on the backs of hard-working, middle-class Americans who are trying to make ends meet. It’s hazardous for a statewide columnist to involve himself in a local issue, but it happens now and then …
Read Original Story: Paul Hodes: Put people over profits – The Union Leader
Congress is under pressure to make available the best possible health-care system at an affordable cost. Right now (on a per capita basis) we pay twice as much for health care as any other industrialized nation and yet as a country, we get poorer …
Read Original Story: Berkowitz: Medicare for everyone – Milford Daily News
