Posts Tagged ‘Debate’
Health care debate heads to Arkansas committee
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A state lawmaker is trying to defeat part of the federal health care overhaul’s impact on Arkansas, even though he faces odds that would make a betting man fold.
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Health care changes possible
Local politicos and health care providers agree that the aftermath of the House’s challenge this week of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul won’t advance much further on the floor of Congress, and definitely not beyond the Oval …
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Future of health-care reform in flux
The struggle over health-care reform reached a new level when House Republicans passed a repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act for America on Wednesday.
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Lost in health care debate are the insurance benefits for Congress
WASHINGTON — Rep. Andy Harris was elected to Congress last November based in part on his vociferous opposition to “Obamacare,” the far-reaching reform of the nation’s health care system that proponents maintain will provide health insurance to 32 million uncovered Americans.
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Holden defends opposition to health care repeal
U.S. Rep. Tim Holden voted against health care reform when it passed the House of Representatives last March.Last week, he voted against repealing it.”I said all along there were things in the bill I was in favor of,” Holden, D-17, told The Republican-
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Health insurance vote not like Republicans envisioned
share: digg facebook twitter Wednesday’s vote to repeal President Obama’s health insurance reform law was supposed to be a crowning triumph. What actually happened, though, is that the Republican majority managed to win the votes of just three Democrats — all of them Blue Dogs who have been consistent opponents of the reform package anyway. To pass the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law …
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The U.S. House of Representatives, back to work after the attempted assassination of one of its members, Tuesday staged a toned-down debate on a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare industry.
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The original health reform bill in the House (HR 3200) “envisioned a separate benefit with a separate fee for physicians that would cover just advance-care planning. That was taken out of the bill,” he said. …
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Open Congress : Blog Articles for H.R.3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
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FAIRHOPE, Alabama — A debate between city leaders over decreasing workers’ benefits to lower municipal expenses was unexpectedly changed last week when city administrators learned more about the federal health care reform bill passed earlier this year.
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Obama health care bill affects Fairhope cost-cutting efforts
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The big debate in politics for the last 8 years or so is whether to nationalize health care. Many people feel that heath insurance and health care is a god.
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Should Health Care be Nationalized? – 7840th Edition | Health Blog
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We are now facing some of the most sweeping changes health care has seen in decades. Reform is needed, but increasing government control over one-sixth of the economy and over important personal and private decisions – as many of the proposals aim to do – would harm American taxpayers, health care providers, and patients. Cato Founder and President Ed Crane frames the health care debate at the Cato Institute’s conference on health care reform held June 17, 2009.
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Dingell, Steele spar over health care during debate
The 15th Congressional District campaign heated up tonight as U.S. Rep. John Dingell and Republican Rob Steele took swipes at each other over everything from health care to Social Security.
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In 1971, President Nixon proposed a national health insurance plan built on heavily employer private coverage. Senator Ted Kennedy proposed what would today be called a single-payer plan. In 1974, the debate had morphed into Nixon vs. Kennedy-Mills vs. Organized labor. Despite the prediction in the second clip shown, the result was stalemate rather than passage in 1974 or 1975.
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Gibson, Murphy spar over jobs in third debate
Jobs, at home and abroad, has become a third prominent issue ina congressional race that started out as a referendum on healthcare reform and energy policy.
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