Monthly Archive for August, 2009

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Policy Experts Call Fear of Medical Rationing Unfounded

August 25, 2009
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- NYTimes.com  By REED ABELSON

Published: August 24, 2009

“Rationing.”

It is what many people say they fear most from an overhaul of the health care system — the prospect of the federal government’s limiting the medical care they can receive.

Even some people who now have private health insurance through their employers have expressed this concern in opinion polls and public forums. They say they worry that the enormous price tag for providing care to tens of millions of additional Americans will eventually force everyone else to make do with less.

Policy Experts Call Fear of Medical Rationing Unfounded – NYTimes.com

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Hard times tighten ‘use-it-or-loss-it’ bond to health benefits

August 25, 2009
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Employee Benefit News

By Kathleen Koster

April 23, 2009

The recession compels employers to reduce their health care costs, but some workers have upped utilization of their coverage, fearing that layoffs and reduce health benefits are on the way, reports the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Hard times tighten ‘use-it-or-loss-it’ bond to health benefits – Articles – Employee Benefit News

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Democrats plan hundreds of reform rallies

August 25, 2009
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- Chris Frates – POLITICO.com

Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system.

Reform supporters are planning to hold more than 500 events between Wednesday and when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 8, ranging from neighborhood organized phone banks to professionally staffed rallies with hundreds of people.

Democrats plan hundreds of reform rallies – Chris Frates – POLITICO.com
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Howard Kurtz – Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on the Complex Nature of the Health-Care Reform Story

August 24, 2009
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Journalists, Left Out of The Debate

Few Americans Seem to Hear Health Care Facts

For once, mainstream journalists did not retreat to the studied neutrality of quoting dueling antagonists.

They tried to perform last rites on the ludicrous claim about President Obama’s death panels, telling Sarah Palin, in effect, you’ve got to quit making things up.

But it didn’t matter. The story refused to die.

Howard Kurtz – Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on the Complex Nature of the Health-Care Reform Story – washingtonpost.com

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Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World – washingtonpost.com

August 24, 2009
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By T.R. Reid

As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we’ve overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they’ve found ways to cover everybody — and still spend far less than we do.

By T.R. Reid — Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World – washingtonpost.com

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