Archive | November, 2009

Canopy Financial Accused Of Serious Financial Fraud, Investors Burned

Technorati Tags: canopy financial,consumer driven health plans,hsainsider by Michael Arrington on November 24, 2009 Something really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial. This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They’ve raised at least $85 million in venture capital with [...]

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It’s official: Reid rally scheduled for Thursday—Politico

Technorati Tags: breaking news,news,health care reform bill,senate,harry reid   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will unveil his much-anticipated health care bill Thursday afternoon with other Democratic leaders in the Capitol Visitor’s Center. CORRECTION: Reid will unveil the bill tonight and then attend this rally Thursday to drum up support for his legislation (I conflated [...]

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Sebelius: U.S. policy on mammograms ‘unchanged’

Technorati Tags: breast cancer,HHS,sebelius,mamograms By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:31 PM A top Obama administration official on Wednesday appeared to try to distance the federal government from controversial new guidelines recommending fewer women routinely undergo mammograms to screen for breast cancer. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in [...]

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Health reform’s hidden land mines

Technorati Tags: health care reform bill,democrats,public option By: Carrie Budoff Brown and Chris Frates November 16, 2009 04:32 AM EST After all the controversy over the public option, people might think that everyone can sign up right away if Congress passes health reform. Or that insurance premiums will go down. Or that they’ll be able [...]

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CMS: House bill increases health care costs

November 14, 2009 Live Pulse: Politico Categories: House Democrats have promised that health reform would reduce health care costs, but legislation the House passed last week would increase costs over the next decade by $289 billion. By 2019, health costs would rise to 21.1 percent of GDP compared to 20.8 under current law, according to [...]

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Historic Vote in the House on Health Care 220 yea 215 Nay

By Ric Joyner, CEBS, CFCI (A constitutional conservative watching the debate.) I watched the coverage throughout the day yesterday and postponed going to  a movie to watch the debates on C-Span! I was struck that this vote was so close! 1 republican voted in favor while 39 democrats voted against. The 39 were persuaded to [...]

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