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Obama: 'Bounty Hunters' Will Help Fight Health Care Fraud With ...

10 Mar 2010 at 2:51am
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/10/obama-bounty-hunters-will_n_49 2793.html

Health Care Protesters Face Off Against Insurance Lobbyists

9 Mar 2010 at 3:23pm
(Jeremy Binckes contributed to this report.) Hundreds if not thousands of protesters and labor activists descended upon the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington today to try to make things a little more difficult for the health insurance ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/09/health-care-protesters-fa_n_49 2011.html

Health Care: Final Push For Obama?

10 Mar 2010 at 4:02am
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/10/health-care-final-push-fo_n_49 2825.html

Limbaugh: I'll Leave US If Health Care Reform Passes (VIDEO)

9 Mar 2010 at 10:25am
UPDATED BELOW*** If Democrats didn't have all the incentive they needed to pass health care reform already, then conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh may have provided the final push they needed by vowing to flee the country if the ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/09/limbaugh-ill-leave-us-if_n_491 536.html

Health Care Resurrection - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

9 Mar 2010 at 9:46am
Hey, where was this impressive guy Obama last year?
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health-care-resurrection/

Riehl World View: Health Care And Work

9 Mar 2010 at 5:22pm
As Gallup releases its latest poll on health care, I'm wondering if it's somehow a sin to talk about health care in relationship to work these days. PRINCETON, NJ -- As President Obama begins a final push on healthcare reform,...
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/03/health-c are-and-work.html

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Thousands Tell Big Insurance: Blocking Health ...

9 Mar 2010 at 2:49pm
Workers repeatedly expressed how they struggle to afford health insurance, an ever-growing expense that is eating away at their ability to pay a mortgage or send children to college. Here's George Estright, a member of AFSCME Local 2162 ...
http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/03/09/thousands-tell-big-insurance-blocking -health-care-reform-is-a-crime/

Dean and 500 Followers March for Health Care Reform � The ...

9 Mar 2010 at 1:02pm
About 500 people turned out this morning to push for health care reform and stand up against health insurance companies. The message of the rally? Health insurance companies and reform opponents should stop being greedy and help insure ...
http://washingtonindependent.com/78741/dean-and-500-followers-march-for -health-care-reform

� Majority Backs Health Care Reform Liberal Values

9 Mar 2010 at 8:04pm
Initially polls showed a majority supporting health care reform. After the insurance industry and the Republican Party launched a massive misinformation campaign the polls became more difficult to evaluate. Polls would generally show a ...
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2010/03/09/majority-backs-health-care-refo rm/

Good Health Boosts Sexual Life Expectancy

9 Mar 2010 at 7:04pm
Good health may not only help you live longer, it could help you enjoy a longer, more satisfying sex life as well, a study shows.
http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20100309/good-health-boosts -sexual-life-expectancy?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Health-Care Reform and the 'Doc Fix' - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

9 Mar 2010 at 8:53pm
For health-care reform to cut the deficit, it doesn't need to undo the "doc fix" -- the continued easing of Congressional curbs on Medicare payments to doctors. It just needs to improve upon the status quo.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health-care-reform-and-the -doc-fix/

Long-Term Health Risks Low for Kidney Donors

9 Mar 2010 at 4:04pm
Kidney donors fare just as well as non-donors over the long term, according to a new study.
http://www.webmd.com/news/20100309/low-long-term-health-risk-for-kidney -donors?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Obama Health Care Push: Back To His Grassroots

8 Mar 2010 at 7:18pm
GLENSIDE, Pa. ? Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/09/obama-health-care-push-ba_n_49 1105.html

If Private Health Insurance Companies Are Evil, Why Are You ...

9 Mar 2010 at 5:01pm
A big part of the final push for this health care reform effort is focused on how terrible the private insurance companies are. On the White House blog, communications director Dan Pfeiffer is attacking the huge premium increases and ...
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/09/if-private-health-insurance -companies-are-evil-why-are-you-forcing-me-to-be-a-customer/

Nancy Pelosi on Health Care: "We have to pass the bill so that you ...

9 Mar 2010 at 3:26pm
Like a Tupperware container full of smelly mystery meat, Nancy Pelosi says that the only way we can find out exactly what's in the health care bill is to try it: You've heard about the controversies.
http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/09/nancy-pelosi-on-health-care-we

DOJ Threat Ends Michigan Health Insurance Deal ? Main Justice

9 Mar 2010 at 8:52pm
As the White House and Congress make a final push to overhaul the nation's health care system, the Justice Department claimed a small victory on Monday when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan said it would drop its proposed plan to ...
http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/03/09/doj-threats-end-michigan-health-i nsurance-deal/

The Health Care Blog: What Good are Health Insurers?

9 Mar 2010 at 5:20am
Congress [in its health reform bills] is effectively making private insurers unnecessary, yet continuing to insist that we can't do without them. The truth is that we could do just fine without them: an insurance system with community ...
http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2010/03/what-good -are-health-insurers.html

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...

9 Mar 2010 at 7:11pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has asked to address the AHIP conference later this week, Gibbs noted. The secretary would likely also discuss the issue of recent rate increases, he added. ...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/09/activists-picket-health -insurance-executives/

A Complicated Enemy: Obama Seeks to Vilify Health Insurers, Give ...

8 Mar 2010 at 6:20pm
ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, ...
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/03/a-complicated-enemy-obama-seek s-to-vilify-health-insurers-give-them-336-billion-check.html

Lincoln Mitchell: Sarah Palin's Canadian Health Care

8 Mar 2010 at 8:26pm
Sarah Palin's recent statement that, presumably during her childhood, she and her family used to cross the border to take advantage of Canada's health care system is not so much a gaffe as an interesting insight into a politician.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/sarah-palins-canadian-he a_b_490970.html