NBC News Health Care Survey
Hart/McInturff
August 15-17, 2009
8. Thinking about efforts to reform the health care system, which would concern you more?
41% - Not doing enough
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NBC News Health Care Survey
Hart/McInturff
August 15-17, 2009
8. Thinking about efforts to reform the health care system, which would concern you more?
41% - Not doing enough
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What are private insurers selling us? Their primary product is a network of health care providers that have contracted to accept the insurers' rates. The
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Code Blue: Out-of-Network Charges Can Spur Financial Emergency
By Paul Raeburn
Kaiser Health News
August 19, 2009
On the evening of March 1, 2008, Gary Diego was relaxing with
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Obviously, giving someone who lives in Maine the choice of having the option for an expense-paid trip to California to receive health care is not
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Remarks by the President in Town Hall on Health Care
The White House
Grand Junction, Colorado
August 15, 2009
Obviously, giving someone who lives in Maine the choice of
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For those of us in the United States who want to know more about the horrors of their government-run, socialist system of health care, Conservative
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We are proud of the NHS
By David Cameron
Conservatives
The Blue Blog
August 13, 2009
People still care about the issues they care about, and thanks to the internet
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Ethics meets economics not only at the end of life, but throughout a lifetime of health care. Economics provides us with various alternatives on financing
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End-of-Life Care: Where Ethics Meet Economics
By Uwe Reinhardt
The New York Times
August 14, 2009
... the debate -- really, shouting match -- over health-care reform has focused
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Helen Thomas doesn't ever give up, thank goodness. As she writes, President Obama "still has time to do the right thing."
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Health care for all
By Helen Thomas
San Francisco Chronicle
Politics Blog
August 12, 2009
It's all so sad. Well-organized conservatives have launched a full-scale attack on health care reform.
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As we look at comprehensive health care reform, we really have to ask ourselves just what is it that the private insurance plans are providing