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Justice Department Investigates Blue Cross Blue Shield

March 30, 2011

From Charleston Regional Business Journal: By Ashley Fletcher Frampton [email protected] Published March 28, 2011 The U.S. Department of Justice claimed in a lawsuit filed in October that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was violating antitrust laws in its contracts with hospitals, and now the government is expanding its investigation of the matter. Blue Cross…

Right-Wing Ideology Trumps Health Care In S.C.

March 24, 2011

Dr. David Cull has invented a device that is aimed at restricting constant high blood flow created from arteries being grafted to veins in the arms of dialysis patients. Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 By JAMES ROSEN – McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The good doctor was frustrated. Dr. David Cull, a prominent vascular surgeon in Greenville,…

Misinformation Still Plagues Health Care Reform Law

March 24, 2011

Font of misinformation. From CBS News: March 23, 2011 5:12 PM By Stephanie Condon One year after President Obama signed his landmark health care reform package into law, his administration is still working to make sure the public understands the sweeping changes, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday. Recent polls, including last…

Opponents Of Reform Still Pushing Brazen Distortions

March 9, 2011

Bachmann’s ‘Bombshell’ – A ‘Hidden’ $105 Billion NBC – Meet The Press By Glenn Kessler The Washington Post “There was a Congressional Research Service report that just was issued in February, and we discovered that secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the ‘Obamacare’ legislation to fund the implementation of…

Message To Health Law Critics: It’s Not A Lack Of Flexibility

March 2, 2011

“The real problem here, in other words, isn’t the lack of flexibility in the health law. It’s the lack of workable ideas from critics on the right.” From Kaiser Health News: By Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor of The New Republic (Mar 01, 2011) With Republican governors complaining that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t give them…

Ignoring The People’s Will, House Blocks Reform Funds

February 18, 2011

The House-passed amendment takes aim at the Department of Health and Human Services. | AP Photo From Politico: . By DAVID NATHER 2/18/11 3:09 PM EST The House voted Friday to block funding for the health care law in several ways – starting the countdown to the defunding clash with Senate Democrats and President Barack…

Poll: Majority Disapproves Of Effort To Block Reform

February 18, 2011

From the Los Angeles Times: . February 16, 2011 By James Oliphant | Washington Bureau Reporting from Washington — Even as Republicans attempt to de-fund the president’s healthcare overhaul on the House floor this week, a new poll suggests that they should proceed with caution. The CBS News poll, conducted over the weekend, shows that…

SC DHHS Restores $13.8M In Cuts, Hospice Care

February 1, 2011

Health Agency To Halt Some Cuts In Services To Poor By JOHN O’CONNOR [email protected] Columbia resident Carolyn Stover said she was dismayed to learn last month that the state was cutting hospice care for her mother, Nellie. Monday, Stover was thanking God and citing the power of prayer after state officials said they will continue…

Forecast For Health Insurers Not So Cloudy After All

January 28, 2011

January 27, 2011, 11:11 am By REED ABELSON One of the major concerns about the new health care law is whether it will usher in the demise of employer-based coverage, which is the source of insurance for the bulk of working Americans today. A new report from Booz & Company, the management consulting firm, suggests…

HHS: Health Reform Already Working

January 28, 2011

Without health reform ‘consumers and businesses would face higher premiums,’ Sebelius says. | AP Photo By: J. Lester Feder January 28, 2011 04:50 AM EST The Obama administration is firing back at one of the major attacks Republicans have leveled at the health reform law: that it will make insurance premiums rise. A report released…

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