THE GREAT RECESSION
More Mainers filing for bankruptcy
Overwhelming medical costs often cited
BY MECHELE COOPER
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The key to understanding the opposition to the proposed Independent Payment Advisory Board described in the following article is in the last sentence
The key to understanding the opposition to the proposed Independent Payment Advisory Board described in the following article is in the last sentence
Obama Panel to Curb Medicare Finds Foes in Both Parties
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans are joining to oppose one of the most important features ofPresident Obama’s new deficit reduction plan, a powerful independent board that could make sweeping cuts in the growth of Medicare spending.
Mr. Obama wants to expand the power of the 15-member panel, which was created by the new health care law, to rein in Medicare costs.
Obama’s Task: Soothing His Own Stalwarts
By HELENE C. COOPERThere was a collective sigh of relief among political lefties last week after President Obama laid out his counter to the GOP budget plan: finally, after a number of disappointments, the president was ready to fight for matters near and dear to his Democratic base.
But even as his stalwarts congratulated Mr. Obama for his rousing defense of Medicare, they were plotting how to continue to pressure the president to hew to their agenda when the serious haggling of the coming budget and debt ceiling fights begin.
Allan Blakeney, Pioneer of Canadian Health Care, Dies at 85
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Allan Blakeney, the health minister of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan who helped start North America’s first tax-financed universal health care system in 1962, and was later the province’s premier, died Saturday at his home in Saskatoon. He was 85.
The Saskatchewan government said the cause was liver cancer.
In 1946, the government of Tommy Douglas, then Saskatchewan’s premier, enacted universal insurance coverage for hospitalization. Mr. Douglas’s successor, Woodrow Lloyd expanded the program in 1962 to include the costs of medical care provided by doctors.
Amid strained clinics, foe assails ‘Obamacare’
Miss. governor’s criticism raises profile
US moves to mitigate some Medicare cuts
Policy shift will benefit those in Advantage plans
Last week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the president's speech as if it were only about budgetary details. But the speech went well beyond the budget. It went to the heart of progressive thought and the nature of American democracy, and it gave all progressives a model of how to think and talk about every issue.
It was a landmark speech. It should be watched and read carefully and repeatedly by every progressive who cares about our country -- whether Democratic office-holder, staffer, writer, or campaign worker -- and every progressive blogger, activist and concerned citizen. The speech is a work of art
Berwick debuts website featuring health data
Apr. 15th, 2011 by Pia Christensen
Filed under: Government, Health care reform, Health data, Health journalism, Health policy, Member news, Public health, Studies, Tools
Filed under: Government, Health care reform, Health data, Health journalism, Health policy, Member news, Public health, Studies, Tools
By Susan Jaffe, Independent Journalist
From Health Journalism 2011
From Health Journalism 2011
Journalists have a key role to play making health care safer and informing the public, Medicare chief Donald Berwick told reporters attending the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists in Philadelphia on Thursday.
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