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Special Project | Health Care Reform: Week of January 29

Sun, 01/29/2012 - 19:49 — Dave Culver
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Health & Environment

'Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.' - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

4 New Items including:

  • Health overhaul lags in states
  • Saving Seniors from Ryan
  • Better Health or Bigger Profits?
  • Bomb Buried in Obamacare Explodes - Hallelujah!

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Dan Wasserman

Health overhaul lags in states, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldiva, Associated Press / Daily Finance
An analysis by the Associated Press shows that states are moving in fits and starts. Combined with new insurance coverage estimates from the nonpartisan Urban Institute, it reveals a patchwork nation.

Saving Seniors from Ryan, Aaron Sinner, Minnesota2020

  • Medicare—and not the private, competitive market—has been the most effective at restraining health care cost growth. It’s not clear making a move toward the private market would reduce cost growth rather than accelerate it.
  • Paul Krugman | Send In the Clueless

Better Health or Bigger Profits? Sarah Greenfield, TakeAction Minnesota

  • Join us on January 18 to make sure the new Health Exchange improves health -- not insurance company bottom lines.
  • Bomb Buried in Obamacare Explodes - Hallelujah!

Bomb Buried in Obamacare Explodes - Hallelujah! Rick Ungar, Forbes

  • The provision, called the medical loss ratio, requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers' premium dollars they collect - 85% for large group insurers - on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit.
  • Judge Temporarily Blocks 20% Pay Cut for Family Caregivers
     

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