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• MEDICARE WASTE AND FRAUD

  —Salisbury News

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  How would waste and fraud be eliminated from Medicare? To find a possible answer, we must examine the administrative cost of private insurance companies and compare it to Medicare. The private companies have a cost in the neighborhood of 20%. Medicare claims about 6%, a 14% difference. How can that [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by joealbero

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• Women In 40's Not Worth Cost Of Mammograms

  —Salisbury News

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  The Government Task Force mandates that no woman in her 40's should have a mammogram or self-examinations. This group claims too many false alarms and unneeded biopsies without improving survival odds. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that influences coverage of screening tests by Medicare and many insurance companies now [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by joealbero

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• Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Republicans….

  —kavips

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  I’m saying nothing here. Just let their own health plan speak for itself…. * No national exchange * No mandates for employers or for individuals * Insurance companies still get to exclude people with pre-existing conditions * No tax credits to help [...] [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  by kavips

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• How Ironic - The Financiers Feel Free To Employ Public Bailout Funds Against The Public Interest Via Lobbyists On The Hill

  —Delaware Way

  Sam Stein says "As the Service Employees International Union reported, all Wall Street institutions -- banks and insurance companies, TARP recipients and non-TARP recipients -- have spent $321 million on lobbying in the first nine months since the bailout.
  From HuffPo ~
  

  In all, during the last quarter" [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:32pm EST
  

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• Here It Is! The Republican Heath Care Plan!

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 15
  Well, at first it was an outline. Then John Boehner got really mad after it was released and people made fun of him again with the outlines.  So now they’ve finished their homework (pdf), now take a good look at Boehnercare: No national exchange No mandates for employers or for individuals Insurance companies [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by cassandra_m

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• Health Care Control And Profits

  —Salisbury News

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  HEALTH CARE REFORM SEEKS CONTROL, NOT COMPETITION
  INSURANCE COMPANIES PROFITS HALF OF HEINZ FOODS
  
  Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the public option would be included in the Senate's HealthCare Plan in order to promote COMPETITION. WRONG, it is all about CONTROL. Control of your life, control [...]

  Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  by joealbero

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• ColorOfChange Writes: Help Demand A Public Option That Won't Discriminate

  —Delaware Way

  From the inbox ~
  Dear Nancy,
  The Senate is closing in on a health care bill with a public health insurance option, a key ingredient of meaningful health care reform. It's great news. But conservatives and insurance companies are fighting hard against the public option, so Senate leadership has compromised [...]

  Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:30am EDT
  

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• Heather Graham Stars In Public Option Ad

  —Delaware Way

  The Nation reports ~
  [In a] new ad created by MoveOn.org, Heather Graham stars as the Public Option, showing how she'll force the lazy, bloated private insurance companies to get back in the game and compete for business. After all, competition is as American as apple pie. Featuring' [...]

  Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
  

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• An Interesting Thought On The Practices Of Health Insurance Companies

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  Bob Cesca:  “If the airlines were randomly dropping passengers out of airplanes at 30,000 feet, the airlines would be investigated, shut down or nationalized.” And, yet, isn’t this pretty much what health insurance companies are doing?  Dropping people. [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2009, 2:01pm EDT
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• Despite Delawareans' "Repeated Attempts To Get An Answer", Tom Carper Will Not Explain His Vote To "Advantage" Insurance Companies

  —Delaware Way

  Tom Carper's patronizing attitude towards constituents couldn't be more clearly delineated than what has been written in today's Delaware Voice by Joanne Cabry ~
  

  A Health Care Reform Resolution was sent to Delaware's three Congressional members by various Democratic organizations in September. Most recently, the Delaware Democratic Party Executive' [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:04am EDT
  

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• Americans United For Change Asks "Why Isn't Health Insurance Price Fixing And Collusion Illegal?"

  —Delaware Way

  Ever wonder why a little bit of healthy competition has the big bad insurance companies quaking in their cleats? Maybe it's because they've never had to compete for business before. Like baseball, the health insurance industry is exempt from anti-trust laws and can legally have a' [...]

  Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:32pm EDT
  

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