Topic: United States

Health care in America is broken - its costs are unsustainable and exceed those in any other nation, and its outcomes often worse than those of much less affluent nations. Fortunately, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's "Fresh Medicine" provides a long-overdue, reasoned alternative. ...
This year, I am grateful for health care reform legislation supported by President Obama and passed by the Democratic-led 111th Congress in 2010.. Despite our employer-based premiums increasing by about 20% in 2011, my family is grateful for two specific elements of ...
Even as Louisiana fights the federal health care overhaul law in court, state officials are quietly putting in place the building blocks to enact its provisions, if they are upheld.. Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein isn't arguing the transition will be ...
Health care in America is broken - its costs are unsustainable and exceed those in any other nation, and its outcomes often worse than those of much less affluent nations. Fortunately, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's "Fresh Medicine" provides a long-overdue, reasoned alternative. ...

Senators push bipartisan state healthcare waiver

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democrat and a Republican teamed up in the Senate on Thursday to offer legislation that would give states the flexibility to implement their own healthcare approaches when the federal overhaul goes into full effect in 2014.The proposal by ...
"Treason" is a strong word. It can be argued that our health care system is the leading cause of death in America. If health insurance companies did three things, their executives could bring home very high salaries and every policy holder would ...
There are three primary methods of finding out which members of Congress voted for or against a particular bill. Often, as is the case with the Health Care Reform legislation, it is helpful to track how the votes developed in the process ...
No one knows what health care reform will mean to Americans until the full force of the reforms are in effect. What we do is spend more money per capita on health care than any other industrial nation. If you add together ...
The proposed trillion dollar health care spending comes in troubled times when the US is in the throes of economic crises that could continue for some time. The health care proposal also comes at a time when Congress is pushing a cap ...
Second only in priority to the war in Iraq, President Obama promises that his Health Care Reform Package will improve both accessibility and quality of medical care to over 307,000,000 people living in America. (2) In the few short months since President ...