Articles tagged with: “Medicare”
Humana CEO compensation for 2009 jumps 26 percent
INDIANAPOLIS — Health insurer Humana Inc. paid CEO Michael B. McCallister 26 percent more last year than in 2008, largely because of a $1.8 million ...
Grayson introduces Public Option Act
Congressman Alan Grayson, (D-Orlando), today introduced a bill (H.R. 4789) which would give the option to buy into Medicare to every citizen of the United ...
Jim McDermott Calls Kentucky's Jim Bunning a Bully, Forgets to Mention Bunning's Nuts Too
Rep. Jim McDermott is pissed. In the middle of the worst recession in a century, Jim Bunning, a Senator from Kentucky and Hall of Fame ...
In face of criticism, Sen. Bunning blocks jobless benefits again
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) stood firm Tuesday in single-handedly blocking the Senate from extending unemployment benefits, highway funds and other programs in the face of ...
Bunning Blockade Leads To 21 Percent Fee Cut For Doctors
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is already infamous for blocking a temporary extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits for out of work Americans. But included in ...
Pushing the Foreign Menace Line to Cut Social Security
The Wall Street-financed crew that is pushing to gut Social Security and Medicare is used to playing fast and loose with facts and logic to ...
White House official: Feb. 25 health care meeting to be televised
Washington -- President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.Coverage details ...
Game On?
House Republicans don't have an official budget yet. But they have what amounts to a first draft. The official budget will be released in March ...
If Terror is the Measure, It’s Healthcare War
Since I was a little child huddled in the elementary school hallway for the bomb drills to the present day when I listen to the ...
Blame the all-powerful left!
I have a contribution this morning to the New York Times examining the Scott Brown victory, and I'll post the link to it once it's up. ...
Blood Money 2010: Healthcare in America
Ask patients who need lab work done how that all works out today in America, and then imagine where this trend is going in the ...
A Patient’s View of the Senate Christmas Healthcare Gift
So, all the great fanfare and all the king’s horses. The great and almighty U.S. Senate has spoken. I will have to buy private health ...
Insurance, health care firms give Lieberman big bucks
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has taken in millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the insurance and health industry he's now accused of protecting from ...
Healthcare Crisis Tears at Fabric of Holiday Traditions
Our elected officials in Washington, DC, are rushing to finish their work and get home for the holidays. Many of the people who elected them ...
Filmmaker threatens CT boycott over Lieberman
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is threatening to organize a boycott of Connecticut in response to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opposition to key parts of federal health ...
Michael Moore threatens boycott of Connecticut over Joe Lieberman
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is threatening to organize a boycott of Connecticut in response to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opposition to ...
Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment
Sickening. Saddening. Maddening. And the stuff of future determination in the political struggle for healthcare for all in the United States. On the floor of ...
Sanders withdraws single-payer amendment
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday withdrew his single-payer healthcare amendment after Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) initiated a procedural maneuver to shipwreck the measure. Coburn ...
Release: Senate to Take up Single-Payer Health Plan
WASHINGTON, December 15 - The Senate on Wednesday will debate for the first time in American history a proposal to create a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health ...
Pete Peterson Teams Up with Kent Conrad to Undermine Democracy, Slash Social Security and Medicare, and Weaken Fragile Recovery.
On Monday morning, wealthy hedge fund mogul Peter Peterson and his Commission on Budget Reform held a press conference to issue a "Call to Action ...
Officials: Medicare buy-in on table
The group of 10 Democrats working to break an impasse on the government insurance option are considering changes to other parts of the bill, including creating a ...
History in a Number: Senate Amendment 2837
The idea of a Medicare for All type, single-payer healthcare system will be heard on the Senate floor. Late last evening, Senator Bernie Sanders of ...
Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
Patients who lack health insurance are more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to a health plan ...
Hostage-Takers in the Senate
As most of us are preparing for the holidays a small clique in the Senate, with their collaborators in the Washington punditry, are planning for ...
'Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags'
So we went out to Griffith Park out here in L.A. on Sunday to check out the kick-off day for the new "Tea Party Express ...
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