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Health Policy Digest - October 20, 2009
October 20, 2009
A DANGEROUS SECRET TO THE BAUCUS HEALTH BILL
Hidden in the Senate's health care bill are huge incentives for corporate America to stop covering their workers; if that happens, the deficit could skyrocket, say observers...
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Instead of reducing the average family's health insurance premiums by $2,500 per year, as President Obama promised, the Baucus health care bill would actually raise them by $4,000 more than they would have been without reform, according to report...
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"REFORM" MEANS YOU PAY MORE FOR HEALTH CARE
The only "savings" under Sen. Baucus's (D-Mont.) health care reform bill would be to those who receive government-paid health care and subsidies at the cost of higher prices for everyone else, says new report...
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CBO REPORT RAISES ESTIMATE OF SAVINGS FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM
Tort reform would reduce the nation's health care spending by 0.5 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office...
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TORT REFORM COULD REDUCE MALPRACTICE INSURANCE PREMIUMS BY 10 PERCENT
The annual cost of defensive medicine in 2005 was between $100 billion and $178 billion, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis...
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THINGS THAT PROBABLY WILL BE IN THE HEALTH CARE BILL (BUT SHOULDN'T)
ObamaCare would strengthen the Internal Revenue Service and create over 30 new federal programs, agencies and commissions that would be required to administer the massive new health care entitlement, say observers...
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