(9/2010) Obamacare: Big Brother Brainwashing Our Youth!

2010-11-02T14:47:05Z

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(8/2010) 80% Of Doctors Unhappy With Obamacare

2010-09-11T23:58:21Z

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(8/2010) 80% Of Doctors Unhappy With Obamacare

2010-09-11T23:57:25Z

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Advocate for unity

2010-11-02T12:43:25Z

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Doctors, AARP support new health overhaul bill

2010-06-26T03:15:07Z

AMA, AARP support revised health care overhaul bill; AMA calls it step toward real reform

The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation.

James Rohack, the president of the A...

Senate opens work on healthcare bill

2010-06-25T19:33:54Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate began work on a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Monday, with senators on both sides pouncing on findings in a nonpartisan budget report on insurance premiums to bolster their arguments.

With the debate expected to last up to three weeks, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid w...

House moves to protect doctors from Medicare cuts

2010-06-25T19:42:25Z

House votes to block Medicare cuts to doctors, Republicans see a payoff to the AMA

The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.

The measure, approved on a near party-line vote of 243 to 183, is a top priority for the American Medical Association members reaffirm support for health system reform

The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals that threaten doctors' pocketbooks and independence.

The action at the group's semiannual meeting in Reuters) - The influential American Medical Association on Thursday said it supported passage of the Democratic-written healthcare legislation that the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on this week.

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Doctors begin TV ads pressing Congress on Medicare

2010-04-16T09:49:07Z

The American Medical Association is launching a coast-to-coast TV ad campaign to press Congress to approve higher payments for doctors treating Medicare patients.

The doctors group announced the ads Thursday, a day after Democrats agreed to push a $247 billion bill through the Senate next week averting scheduled cuts in physicians' Medicare fees ov...

Senate Finance Bill: Drug Industry Likes It, Unions Don’t

2010-10-24T09:57:30Z

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Senate negotiations generate new health reform bill, but not consensus

2010-11-02T12:42:56Z

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Health Reform AdWatch: Government bureaucrats in geeky glasses in your examining room???

2010-10-26T21:36:21Z

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Competition lacking among private health insurers

2010-04-16T10:42:02Z

As debate rages over public health plan, private insurers seem to be quashing competition

One of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.

Several studies show that in lots of places, one or two companies dominate the market. Critics say monopolistic conditions drive up premiums paid by employer...

Obama confident health care overhaul coming soon

2010-04-16T10:51:25Z

Obama confident health care overhaul coming soon, speaks of `about 80 agreement' in Congress

President Barack Obama says he's confident his drive to overhaul health care will succeed.

The president writes in Sunday's New York Times about "health insurance reform" and says his attempt to overhaul the system is closer to r...

Which Health Players Are Spending the Most On Lobbying?

2010-10-24T09:57:15Z

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AMA endorses House Democrats' health care bill

2010-04-16T11:18:36Z

AMA backs bill with public insurance option, its strongest support for Obama health overhaul

The American Medical Association on Thursday endorsed a liberal health overhaul bill that includes a public insurance option, a bold step for a traditionally conservative group with a checkered past on health reforms.

In its strongest action yet signaling support for AMA docs leave door open to public option insurance, signaling they'll work with Obama

The nation's largest group of doctors began their annual meeting as a potential obstacle to President Obama's health care overhaul. After a big pep talk from Obama himself, they ended it Wednesday by signaling they won't close the door on one of his key proposals, a public health insurance plan to compete with private insur...

AMA avoids firm stance on health insurance option

2010-04-16T11:46:23Z

The American Medical Association has declined to take a firm position on President Barack Obama's proposal to create a public health insurance program.

The AMA delegates meeting in Chicago agreed Wednesday to support health care reform alternatives that are "consistent with AMA principles," whic...

Obama lobbies doctors on healthcare reforms

2010-09-22T13:15:13Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned doctors on Monday the U.S. healthcare system was a ticking time bomb and urged them to support his overhaul, which includes a public insurance plan that many of them view with skepticism.

Obama took his healthcare campaign to the annual meeting of the influential

Health Reform: Whither a public option?

2010-10-26T20:47:25Z

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US healthcare reform could cost $1 trillion

2010-04-16T11:47:42Z

A healthcare reform programme being considered in Congress could cost one trillion dollars over 10 years, researchers at the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have estimated.

"Enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about 1.0 trillion over the 2010-2019 period," the non-partisan CBO said in a letter to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have estimated.

"Enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about 1.0 trillion over the 2010-2019 period," the non-partisan CBO said in a letter to President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors Monday he opposes their highest legislative priority — limiting malpractice awards — and got a smattering of boos from an audience he was here to court for his health care overhaul plan.

Vigorously defending the plan to reshape the nation's health care system and extend coverage to millions who don't have it, he also took on "naysayers," "fear-mongers" and other critics who he said a...

Obama tells AMA, "I need your help"

2010-11-02T12:42:34Z

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Obama to AMA: 'I Need Your Help, Doctors'

2010-10-24T09:56:51Z

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Obama: ‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’

2010-10-24T09:56:49Z

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Text of Obama’s Speech to the AMA

2010-10-24T09:56:47Z

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Obama's Day: President to push health plan to AMA

2010-04-16T11:49:02Z

President Barack Obama travels to Chicago on Monday to promote his health care reform proposals to a very important audience.

He'll tout his plan to ensure that all Americans have health insurance before a skeptical American Medical Association.

The physicians group is opposed to a public ...

AMA wary of Obama call for public health insurance

2010-04-16T11:51:09Z

AMA wary of Obama's call for public health insurance but is still pressing for reform

The American Medical Association, the nation's largest doctors group, is wary of President Barack Obama's call for public health insurance. It doesn't want government meddling in their jobs.

But these days, most doctors aren't membe...

Health Industry Wary, Divided Over Sweeping Reform

2010-10-21T10:01:48Z

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Editorials

2010-11-02T12:42:09Z

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Obama Holds Press Briefing

2010-06-25T22:34:43Z

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: (AFP OUT) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs looks on as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives for a statement in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on November 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama in today's Daily Briefing thank...

Health Overhaul Doctors

2010-06-25T22:49:43Z

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, Senate Finance Committee member John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks during a health care reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. "I can't think of a more ineffective organization when it c...

Obama Doctors

2010-04-06T18:54:45Z

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health care reform at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, Monday, June 15, 2009, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Obama Addresses The American Medical Association Annual Meeting

2010-04-06T20:19:07Z

CHICAGO - JUNE 15: President Barack Obama addresses the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) June 15, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama used the meeting to present his healthcare reform agenda to the medical community. (Photo by Scott Olson/...

Obama

2010-04-06T20:27:41Z

President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the White House in Washington, Monday, June 15, 2009, for a day trip to Chicago to deliver remarks on health care reform at the annual meeting of the

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