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by Ken Ward Jr. Passage of the landmark health-care reform bill also means success for Sen Robert C. Byrd’s efforts to streamline the process for coal miners to obtain black lung benefits. According to a press release from Byrd’s office, the senator inserted these two provisions in the legislation – In cases where a miner [...]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system. “We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in [...]

PARKERSBURG, WV – The debate over a national public health care option got pointed Thursday as people on both sides of the issue gathered in downtown Parkersburg to voice their opinions. The two sides gathered at Bicentennial Park as the Wood County Democratic Party hosted a stop for the Organizing for America “Solving Our Health [...]

Ann Arbor, MI October 26, 2009 – The U.S. healthcare system wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion annually, according to a white paper published today by Thomson Reuters. The report identifies the most significant drivers of wasteful spending – including administrative inefficiency, unnecessary treatment, medical errors, and fraud – and quantifies their cost. It [...]

Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first Republican supporter Tuesday and cleared a key Senate hurdle, a double-barreled triumph that propelled President Barack Obama’s signature issue toward votes this fall in both houses of Congress. “When history calls, history calls,” said Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, whose declaration of support [...]

A CIGNA employee gave the finger — literally — to a woman whose daughter died after the insurance giant refused to cover her liver transplant. Hilda and Krikor Sarkisyan went to CIGNA’s Philadelphia headquarters, along with supporters from the California Nurses Association, to confront the CEO Edward Hanway over the death of her 17-year-old child. [...]

Reacting to an amendment proposed by Sen. Jon Cornyn (R-Texas) during the Senate Finance Committee’s markup of health care reform legislation on Thursday, committee member Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) called his colleague a pawn of the health insurance industry. “This is a very, very important amendment and it’s a very, very bad amendment,” said Rockefeller. “If [...]

“Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) continued his attack on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) health care bill, sharply questioning the chairman’s decision to conduct months of bipartisan talks that failed to win a single Republican backer, while shutting out Democrats on the committee. Hours after Baucus released his sweeping health care plan, Rockefeller said [...]

Rep. Joe Wilson’s Comments and Connections Still in the Spotlight – Capital Eye: “Joe Wilson — the Republican Congressman from South Carolina who is at the center of Washington’s latest brouhaha for shouting ‘you lie’ at President Barack Obama during the president’s health reform speech before a joint session of Congress — has long relied [...]

During President Obama’s address on health insurance reform to a joint session of Congress last night, he observed that some people have been spreading bad information about his proposal — and that contrary to what’s been said it would not cover illegal immigrants. At that point the president was interrupted by Rep. Addison Graves “Joe” [...]