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World › Democrats have 60 pledges ahead of key Senate health care vote

Sunday 22nd November, 06:52 AM JST WASHINGTON — In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the...

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Guess What Happens When One Reads The ObamaCare Bill?

What happens when you read the ObamaCare bill, specifically the one coming out of the USSA Senate? We learn just how bad it really is. It isn't just that this bill will create new citizenship mandates, eliminate freedom of...

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Catholic Bishops Vs. Obama on Health Bill

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops At Odds with White House Over Abortion Language in the Senate Bill Language on abortion threatens to stall Obama's health care overhaul in the Senate. (AP) As the U.S. Senate continues to...

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EU probes Slovakia's action against health insurers

Source: Reuters BRATISLAVA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The European Commission launched an action on Friday against Slovakia over concerns that the country's law forbidding private health insurers from keeping their profits ...

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Let’s Get a Few Things Straight (Yet More on Abortion and Health Insurance)

I’m going to repeat some things that I think need repeating. I’ve seen far too much fuzzy logic on the relationship between the taxpayer and abortion. The basic premise is that we want to erect as high a wall as possible...

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Internal Market: Commission refers Belgium to Court of Justice over ..

Vrijdag 20 november 2009 | European Union ] The European Commission has decided to refer Belgium to the European Court of Justice over its national rules on supplementary health insurance provided by private sickness funds

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In a Tough Year, Employers Hold the Line on Health Benefit Cost Increases – Mercer Survey

According to the National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, conducted annually by Mercer and released today, many employers feared that health benefit cost growth would spike in 2009 as employees, worried about keeping...

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Web Exclusive: Morbid Symptoms, Current Healthcare Struggles (Canadian Dimension Blog)

Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have just brought out the 2010 annual volume of the Socialist Register, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, published by Merlin Press in London, Monthly Review Press in the US and Fernwood Books...

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Health care's 'public option' would cover little of population

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks at a news conference on health care Thursday on Capitol Hill. The latest version of the "public option," included in the 10-year, $848 billion health care bill headed toward an...

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Eric Massa, on his No vote on HR 3962

I sent an email to Eric Massa some time back, thanking him for voting against HR 3962, and specified that I didn't need a reply, as I'm not one of his constituents. I got a 'form letter' response anyway, and thought I would...

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