Category Archives: Uninsured

Missouri voters say no to mandatory health insurance

By doris | Published: August 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — U.S. Senate races in Kansas and Missouri and a ballot measure seen as a referendum on President Obama’s health care reform highlighted Tuesday’s primary elections. Missouri’s Proposition C allowed voters to decide if residents should be allowed to opt out of mandatory health insurance, a key part of the [...]

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Loophole would allow health coverage limits

By doris | Published: December 13, 2009

Full Story atmsnbc.com WASHINGTON – A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurance companies place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer. Adding to the confusion, the language is tucked away in a clause of the bill captioned “No lifetime or annual limits.” Advocates [...]

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Obama lauds health care deal, but others raise concerns

By doris | Published: December 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A deal negotiated by Senate Democrats to drop the controversial government-run public insurance option for a package of health care alternatives won praise Wednesday from President Obama, but opposition from key interest groups. In remarks at a White House event, Obama said the agreement created “a new framework [...]

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House passes health care reform bill

By doris | Published: November 9, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215. With the passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proponents of health care reform took an important step forward, but turning the bill into law remains [...]

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Hardin: Final health care bill will have public option

By doris | Published: October 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) – Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, the Democrat who chairs one of the Senate committees tasked with developing health care legislation, promised Friday that a health care bill will be on President Obama’s desk before Christmas and will include a so-called “public option.” “I believe we are in an irrevocable [...]

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AMA open to government-funded health insurance option

By doris | Published: July 2, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com Dr. J. James Rohack told CNN the AMA supports an “American model” that includes both “a private system and a public system, working together.” In May, the AMA told a Senate committee it did not support a government-sponsored public health insurance option. “The AMA does not believe that creating a public [...]

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Health overhaul tests Obama’s political skills

By doris | Published: March 9, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Embarking on arguably his most complex political fight yet, President Barack Obama is using skills honed during his presidential campaign and lessons learned from past failures to try to overhaul the health care system. It’s a feat none before him has achieved. As such, it would pay monumental dividends [...]

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