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Health Insurance Stringently Regulated

There Goes Long Term Care

Abused then denied care

Kaiser Health News is reporting about another example of the egregious practices of health insurers: denial of health insurance for victims of domestic abuse (find the news report on MSNBC

CBO: Estimates subject to substantial uncertainty

The 27 page letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen.

Business doesn't push GOP to pass health reform

David Broder, Washington Post columnist, notes that the business lobby seems to be on the sideline in the current health reform debate (read it h

Health care bill to cost $829 billion

MSNBC reports that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) placed a 10 year price tag on the Senate Finance health reform bill of $829 billion (find the article

Health Exchange: Tried and Failed

Utah and Massachusetts, the proud owners of the only two operating health exchanges in the nation, should have paid attention to the failure of similar 'health reform' ideas in several other states

Give health reform to states

This title of a Deseret News editorial (find it here) doesn't quite cover the c

100,000 lives could be saved

As reported by MSNBC (find it here), an excess of 100,000 preventable deaths occur in the US annually because we fail

To Balance Cost and Coverage

Democrats are trying to balance cost and coverage in their various health reform bills, but are not succeeding. The problem is obvious: if you increase coverage, you increase cost.