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Healthcare

Health Care Summit: At the End of the Day…

February 25, 2010

The discussion was good for the most part.  But, if the bottom line is simple — too simple.  Everyone agrees that the American health care is the best in the world. Yada, yada, yada.
Who the hell are they kidding?  Many Americans will never be able to make an informed judgment — BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD [...]

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Sen. John Barrasso, R-WY

February 25, 2010

Well, Senator John Barrasso, R-WY, and a doctor seems to have missed the point entirely.  First of all, Barrasso mentioned that we had the best health care in the world.  He mentioned that some big government official from Canada had come to the U.S. to have his heart surgery.  And, then he mentioned another big [...]

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Best Line of the Day and Medical Malpractice

February 25, 2010

Obama to McCain:  “We’re not campaigning, John.  The election is over.”
Enough said.
Later, McCain spoke on health care reform mentioning medical malpractice.  Unfortunately, McCain tried to make a joke or two — none of which were funny.  However, he did mention that in California with caps on medical malpractice, lawsuits are down, and so on.
McCain also [...]

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Health Care Summit: Sen. John Boehner Speaks at 3:30

February 25, 2010

Well, we should have seen it coming.  Boehner (R-Ohio) sat like a cat on a hot tin roof during most of the summit.  When he finally spoke, his first words were almost positive — ALMOST.
But, his second statement turned every bit of effort the others made to come to some sort of resolution upside down.  [...]

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Health Care Summit: Medicare Advantage

February 25, 2010

Seems that there is some debate about Medicare Advantage (Part C) although no one calls it Medicare Part C.  The government is paying to subsidize Medicare Part C, by subsidizing private insurance companies.  Medicate Advantage has proved to be an “advantage” only to private insurers.
Discussion of the donut hole ensued.  The bottom line of the [...]

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Round 2: Health Care Summit

February 25, 2010
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With all the sparing going on, BernieHund must say that at last we agree with someone from Tennessee!  Representative Marsha Blackburn — REPUBLICAN — presented the idea of being able to purchase insurance across state lines. 
Of course, there is dissention on how to do that.  But, let’s here it for someone from Tennessee who actually [...]

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Health Care Summit Highlights – First Hour

February 25, 2010
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Following opening statements the dust up began.  President Obama laid out the format for the meeting citing objectives for the day.  Lamar Alexander (R-TN) embarrassed those of us who live in Tennessee by misquoting the CBO numbers in his opening while taking a strictly partisan position. 
Not to pick on Lamar alone, Nancy Pelosi rambled and [...]

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Health Care Reform Helps the Economy, at Least Health Care Stocks

December 21, 2009
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Not one to wish any more misfortune on the American people, but we know we are screwed when health care stocks — health care insurers and pharmacy benefit manager stocks — are on the rise following Step 1 in the Senate’s race to health care reform.
The economy is on everyones mind.  We are all awaiting the [...]

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The 60-40 Split on Health Care

December 21, 2009
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Last night — this morning — while most of us slept the Senate voted to stop reading amendments aloud in the Senate Chamber, to stop showing posters made by Senate aides, to stop the endless prattle about everything under the sun.  The Republican senators are not so happy about the end of the circus.  Delaying the [...]

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Is Health Care Reform a Possibility?

December 19, 2009
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BernieHund tuned into cspan this morning to see if the Senate was still going strong.  There are reports that the Democrats now have Senator Ben Nelson on board and with his vote have the 60 votes necessary to pass the Senate version of the health care reform bill.
With such “good news” it would seem that [...]

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