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Ensuring Maximum Benefits to Employees With Insurance Plans

Kathleen Cooper @Kathleencooper (1) • Jaipur, India 8 May 14

Insurance is a must one for every person to live a protected life. There are different types of plans which are available in the markets for individuals, employees, students and families for gaining major benefits. At the same...

Affordable healthcare act leaves students without coverage

rosegardens @rosegardens (3032) • United States 16 May 12

Under the new health care reform law, insurance coverage for students is going to double in the next year, and nearly triple the following year. At a college in Ohio, the health care offered students was $600.00. According to the...

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First order of business?

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 4 Jan 11

The House Republicans are jumping into 2011 with attempting to repeal the Health Care Reform Bill. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0314683520110103 The new bill is available to read online at...

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Why the big complaints about universal health care?

mainman195 @mainman195 (186) • United States 25 May 10

As I see it, most of the United States already gets publicly funded health care. All public school teachers, government officials and employees, those on Medicare and Medicaid, and any health care personnel who work in facilities...

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The First Healthcare Casualty Could Be ...

teamrose @teamrose (1492) • United States 30 Mar 10

The Happy Meal Toy! A child's "Happy Meal" may soon be a little less happy in Santa Clara County, where a local official wants to prevent fast-food restaurants from giving away inexpensive toys with kids'...

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I assume that Rush Limbaugh is already packed and ready to head for Costa Rica

sharone74 @sharone74 (4837) • United States 24 Mar 10

Rush Limbaugh the Republican mouth piece who ha repeatedly claimed to be the voice of the American people, said that if the healthcare bill was passed that he was leaving the country and moving to Costa Rica. We have known that...

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Some changes are good, some not so much.

teamrose @teamrose (1492) • United States 22 Mar 10

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/22/AR2010032201834.html I'm going to quote the changes, because it's widely known. This year: Sets up a high-risk health insurance pool to provide affordable...

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Someone please explain health care reform to a Canadian

Simoneetah @Simoneetah (420) • Canada 22 Mar 10

ALRIGHT! The bill has been passed. Why am I constantly hearing negative views on this? We have universal health care...and even though its not perfect I like knowing that I can go to a GP or the hospital and not worry about the...

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Why 2014

gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 22 Mar 10

I keep hearing about these 40,000 American that will die every year if Congress does not pass health care reform. Yet what House pas last night does not go into full effect until 2014. Now all the taxes go into effect once Obama...

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Pushing the Health Care Bill without a vote?

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 19 Mar 10

"Reforms pushed by President Obama and other Democrats may be approved without ever actually having a direct vote, but could be "deemed" to have been passed and then signed into law by Obama. The process is called the "Slaughter...

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Pass the dang health care bill already!!!

tcolwell @tcolwell (138) 15 Mar 10

I'm so sick of some certain politicians who are deliberately trying to make it impossible for Obama to succeed by interfering with the passage of a new health care reform bill. Stop being selfish and do what's right for a...

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What Will Be the News Topic for the Week?

davebrown64 @davebrown64 (443) • United States 28 Feb 10

So much has happened in the past week, politically speaking. What is most on your mind? What do you think will be the greatest news story to come out this week? I think we are still in the quagmire of the health care reform. Is...

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Are the American People Incompetent to Govern Themselves?

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 28 Feb 10

Nancy Pelosi is urging Democrats to pass the health care reform bill, even if it means they will lose in the upcoming elections and be forced out of Congress. "We're not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress,"...

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Obam's Health Care Reform

teamrose @teamrose (1492) • United States 23 Feb 10

Has anybody found a site to read Obama's promised Health Care Reform Package? The Wall Street Journal, CNN, AP, and The New York Times all say it's on the Whitehouse site. But that site only has links that go to summaries from the...

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How is Reconciliation advancing Obama's goal of "bipartisanship?"

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 22 Feb 10

Obama has often said that he wants a bipartisan health care bill. The health care summit he has called for with Democrats and Republicans is supposedly so that he may listen to Republican ideas on health care reform. Yet, Obama...

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61% of Americans want a do-over on health care - Say scrap current proposals

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 11 Feb 10

A new Rasmussen poll found that 61% of voters want Congress to scrap the existing health care bills and start over from scratch. But they don't trust the current Congress to craft the new plan. 54% of voters polled want...

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What You Want Is Not Health Care Reform

gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 19 Jan 10

With the possibility of Ted Kennedy's seat flipping to the GOP a lot of people are freaking out. We hear how this might derail health care reform, but that is not what is being debated and that is not what many want. What many...

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Obamacare and expats

Indojo @Indojo (242) • United States 24 Dec 09

The new bill about penalties for not having insurance looks like it will pass. I wonder how this will affect expats. We are planning to reside outside the US in a few years...will we be forced to pay for insurance we are not...

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Health care reform benefit a middle class employee?

sujathanavin @sujathanavin (9) 21 Nov 09

How does the healthcare reform benefit a middle class families. What exactly is being changed? Does it reduce the medicare tax that is being deducted from my pay check?

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Is obesity a choice or should it be considered a disorder?

kjess77 @kjess77 (40) • United States 20 Nov 09

With all of the talk about health care reform in our country, one must pose this question. The amount of people in this country who are considered obese outweigh (please note the pun) the number of people who are average or...

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