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(To my knowledge, this is the first post about this anywhere. Please distribute widely. Feedback and collaboration welcome.) The HCR bill contains a rider that, by codifying and unifying recent case law, makes it much harder for tax shelters to avoid taxes. This may well explain why there is such fierce opposition to [...] What’s more, the judge said the entire health care reform bill would be invalid if higher courts upheld his decision. While the health care bill remains in force pending hearings, this is the second time a court has challenged it. This puts everyone in health care in the bizarre situation of having to implement a [...] This morning, the Obama Administration issued a regulation implementing a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will require insurance companies to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of premium dollars on medical care and health care quality improvement, rather than on administrative costs, starting in 2011. If they don’t, the insurance companies will [...] From friends on Facebook DJ: I am so disgusted. Some people opposed to the health bill are frothing at the mouth, making death threats and breaking windows. Many of those who support reform don’t yet realize they’ve been duped– and the raving nutcases only make them feel more victorious. Some liberal friends are talking [...] DJ reads the health care bills (there are three of them), grinds the numbers, finds it all unduly complicated, deliberately evasive, and agrees with his House representative who is voting against it because it does little to cut costs or stop premiums from rising. [...] Will passage of health care reform hurt Democrats in the Fall Firedoglake thinks so The generals are firing on their own troops in the trenches for their unwillingness to go on a suicide mission. There are currently 36 resolutions in states across the country to ban the mandate which forces people to buy private [...] A report released Thursday entitled, “Lives on the Line: The Deadly Cost of Delaying Health Reform,” sheds light on the real moral issue at the heart of America’s national debate on health care: people needlessly dying because they don’t have access to preventive or primary medical care. At a current rate of 68 deaths [...] VA Senate passes bill saying Virginians don’t have to buy health insurance I call Republican Trap: Blue: Obama’s health care to federal mandate. Red: Republicans’ health care to tenth amendment. Hint. Solution. Progressives appear to be worried the health care reform bill might pass, with Republicans getting some credit for it. Oh, shriek, we can’t have that. That this debate is even happening shows how poisoned the waters are on the current tepid bill. New Dem worry: GOP taking credit for health care reform Health care [...] |  | ||||
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