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Health & Wellness News tagged with medicare

Obama Gives Powerful Drug Lobby a Seat at Healthcare Table
Health & Wellness  (tags: drug, lobby, republican, Billy, Tauzin, medicare, healthcare, health, disease, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, risks, treatment, obama, government, politics, corruption, dishonesty, cover-up, americans, abuse, lies )

Tom
- 112 days ago - google.com
Barack Obama once lambasted drug companies and the influence they wield in Washington. The drug industry's chief lobbyist is former Republican Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin, who fought to prevent Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices.
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NYTimes: How Health Care Reform Will Help You -- Even If You're Insured
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health care, health care reform President Barack Obam, Democrats, Medicare, single payer, public option )

Blue
- 119 days ago - nytimes.com
Though many of the crucial decisions about health care reform have yet to be made, the general direction of the legislation is clear enough to make some educated guesses about the likely winners and losers.
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Health Care For All : What If ... We Stripped Away the $13 Billion Insurance Company Profits ...   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: Abc, Afl-Cio, Chamber Of Commerce, Health Care For America Now, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Obama, Public Option, Seiu, Medicare, Politics News )

Blue
- 151 days ago - youtube.com
President Obama's health care plan will get rid of exorbitant corporate profits, bloated CEO bonuses, endless denials, and skyrocketing costs while giving voters more choice and making private insurance companies behave better.
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A Public Option Is Within Reach -- Dems Can't Back Down
Health & Wellness  (tags: public, health, insurance, medicare, healthcare, illness, disease, medicine, protection, prevention, family, children, drugs, treatment, society, culture, rights, americans, humans, politics, government, obama, democrats, dishonesty )

Tom
- 154 days ago - alternet.org
It's official: most Americans want a public option healthcare plan. Barack Obama actually has the political capital to make it a reality. So why is it that so many Democrats, their tails tucked firmly between their legs, have set about undermining it?
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NEWS UPDATE: Drug Companies May Narrow Medicare Coverage Gap
Health & Wellness  (tags: Medicare, prescription drugs, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare reform, 80 billion discount in pescription drug )

ON VACATI
- 156 days ago - reuters.com
Drug manufacturers have agreed to offer up to $80 billion in prescription drug discounts to government programs like Medicare, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. 10-year agreement for those Medicare patients who have gap in drug coverage.
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Free, Quality Healthcare for ALL: Build the Movement for Single Payer!
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, universal, single, payer, insurance, medicare, americans, illness, disease, prevention, protection, medicine, treatment, safety, government, lies, dishonesty, corruption, baucus, obama, democrats, republicans, society, culture, rights )

Tom
- 174 days ago - socialistalternative.org
Each year, 20,000 Americans die from lack of access to healthcare. Almost 50 million people in this country have no insurance. With unemployment skyrocketing and costs continuing to spiral upwards, things will only get worse for us. This is unacceptable.
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Sign Petition: Fund and Reform Public Mental Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: public, mental, health, medical, medicare, health, medicine, illness, protection, treatment, government, americans, money, economy, americans, society, culture, rights, ethics, healthcare )

Tom
- 183 days ago - change.org
Cuts in Public Mental Health and Medicaid are putting lives at risk. The mentally ill are facing hard choices: go to the the ER when in crisis, go without care, risk suicide, become homeless, self-medicate, go to jail, become crime victims or worse.
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Health Commission Wants Dental Scheme for All - Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, health, healthcare, dental, dentist, teeth, medicare, government, good news )

Chrissy
- 281 days ago - abc.net.au
A dental scheme - to be funded by a 0.75 per cent increase in the Medicare levy - should be introduced to provide access to dental care for all Australians, a Government commissioned report has recommended. As part of several recommendations for a major
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BBC Panorama: Health Care in America   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: health care, universal health care, uninsured Americans, health, sickness, illness, families, jobs, medical insurance, MEDICARE, Obama, Democrats, BBC )

Blue
- 295 days ago - youtube.com
This explosive BBC documentary, unlike anything you'll see on American MSM, shows how bad the healthcare situation is in America. You'll see a charity originally set up to deliver healthcare to third world countries, drawing hundreds of clients in Kentuck
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Health Care Now
Health & Wellness  (tags: Obama, Democrats, health care, Medicare, economy, jobs, bank failures, mortgage crisis, credit crisis, doctor bills, prescription drug prices )

Blue
- 296 days ago - nytimes.com
The whole world is in recession. But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also be a health care catastrophe -- in which millions of people will lose their health insurance along with their jobs, and .....
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McCain's Medicaid Cuts: $738 Billion Over 10 Years»
Health & Wellness  (tags: John McCain, health care, healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, cuts to Medicre, cuts to Medicaid, Republicans, Neocons, PNAC, Campaign 2008 )

Blue
- 385 days ago - wonkroom.thinkprogress.org
McCain recently proposed cutting $1.3 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid to plug the $1.3 trillion funding gap in his budget-neutral health care plan. Republicans cut benefits to OLD PEOPLE and CHILDREN first ... remember that!
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Does Your Medicare Plan Offer Your Neighbor a Better Deal?
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, Medicare, health care plans, Florida, nonprescription drugs, universsal health care programs )

ON VACATI
- 412 days ago - bulletin.aarp.org
companies don't offer the same benefits in his hometown of Delray Beach, a Palm Beach County community, as they do in Miami, only about 50 miles away. He is furious. Read on....!!
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When Is Enough Enough?
Health & Wellness  (tags: biological maintenance, dying, medical treatment, hospitals, doctors, Medicare, Medicaid, nursing homes, prolonging life )

RC
- 413 days ago - nytimes.com
I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Premiums to Rise in '09 - Washingtonpost.Com
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, drugs, government, medicare )

Michael
- 465 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The average monthly premium for Medicare's prescription drug plan will increase to an estimated $28 in 2009, three dollars more than this year's monthly premium, Medicare officials announced Thursday.
8 comments
States Look to Rein In Private Medicare Plans
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicare, privatization, healthcare, business, corruption, humans, government, Insurance, elderly, medicine, treatment )

Holly
- 566 days ago - nytimes.com
State officials say they are still receiving complaints of high-pressure sales tactics that have led some beneficiaries to sign up for unsuitable policies.
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