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Health Care Reform: Health Care Reform Explained - Your Questions Answered
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Friday, April 2, 2010. Health Care Reform Explained - Your Questions Answered. Need help understanding the new health care reforms? You’re not alone. The legislation is more than 2,000 pages—longer than Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace—and it’s crammed with new benefits, rules, penalties and projects, spread out over years. To help you find out just what it all means to you, AARP will be answering your questions about health care reform online. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary.
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Health Care Reform: How is your Medicare dollar spent?
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. How is your Medicare dollar spent? The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of how money is distributed through Medicare via HMOs - Health Maintenance Organizations. HMOs were sanctioned years ago as a method of providing a high level of health care while controlling costs. To a significant extent they have been successful, but in many cases the amount of administrative overhead is significant. Of what they receive for overhead. I don't know the percent the IPA ret...
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Health Care Reform: Health Care Reform sources
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Thursday, August 6, 2009. Health Care Reform sources. The above reference lists "objections" and information sources that disprove them. It is really important that everyone understands the truth of the reform efforts and the motivations of those behind objections. Otherwise you may be tricked into being against something that can really help you. Be informed- learn the truth. MYTH: Private Plans Outlawed. MYTH: 120 Million Americans Will Be Deprived of Health Care. MYTH: Illegal Immigrants May Be Covered.
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Our Economy: Seniors' worries center on Social Security, Medicare
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Thursday, July 28, 2011. Seniors' worries center on Social Security, Medicare. Ann Filippini relies on a $700 Social Security payment and a $100 pension each month to pay her bills. With a potential U.S. government default looming, the 80-year-old Plains Township resident is worried she won't get her Social Security check next month. I'm a nervous wreck because I don't have a penny saved. I just used that for everything. I don't get much," Filippini said Wednesday. "What are we supposed to do? If they wa...
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Our Economy: Paul Krugman: The Destructive Center
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Monday, February 9, 2009. Paul Krugman: The Destructive Center. What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A proud centrist. For that is what the senators who ended up calling the tune on the stimulus bill just accomplished. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation.
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Our Economy: UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know?
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Thursday, August 20, 2009. UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation. UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard and Poor’s. It’ll Be an All-Cuts Budget “Deal” (Just Like California). 10 Reasons for Progressives to Feel Reassured About the Debt Package. Excellent video on deregulation. THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Obama’s Ball and Chain.
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Our Economy: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Obama’s Ball and Chain
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Friday, March 6, 2009. THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Obama’s Ball and Chain. I’m worried. We’ve just elected a talented young president with many good instincts about how to propel our country forward, extend health care to more people, make our tax code fairer and launch a green industrial revolution. But do you know what I fear? I hope my fears are exaggerated. But ask yourself this: Why couldn’t former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson solve this problem? Is it because they don’t get it? When this huge bubble exp...
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Our Economy: Charlie Rose's Financial Interviews
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Saturday, January 31, 2009. Charlie Rose's Financial Interviews. Mr Rose interviews the major figures of the day. Here are interviews on our economy that I am sure you will find informative. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation. UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard and Poor’s. It’ll Be an All-Cuts Budget “Deal” (Just Like California). Excellent video on deregulation.
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Health Care Reform: Comparing population health in the United States and Canada
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Friday, April 30, 2010. Comparing population health in the United States and Canada. The objective of the paper is to compare population health in the United States (US). And Canada. Although the two countries are very similar in many ways, there are. Potentially important differences in the levels of social and economic inequality and. The organization and financing of and access to health care in the two countries. The population of Canada appears to be substantially healthier than the US population.
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Health Care Reform: Medicare tax hikes: What the rich will pay
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Medicare tax hikes: What the rich will pay. But first, what's certain: The Medicare payroll tax is going up for individuals making more than $200,000 in wages, and couples making more than $250,000. Currently, the Medicare payroll tax is 2.9% on all wages - with the worker and his employer each paying 1.45%. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. Obama Signs Landmark Health Care Bill. Timeline of Provisions - Medical Loss Ratio. An answer to Health Reform. US Health...
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