Insurer changes its mind, covers ‘too small’ tot

Robert and Rachel Bates of Colorado knew their 2-year-old daughter was healthy, even if she was small. And now they can rest assured that they will have medical insurance to help keep her that way. Aislin Bates, who at 22 pounds was deemed too small to qualify for medical insurance, has now been accepted after all.

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Toddler denied insurance for being too small

First, a Colorado baby was turned down for health insurance for being too big. Now, another Colorado child has been turned down for health insurance for being too small.

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Soap opera gets Latinos in tune with health care

It has all the hallmarks of the beloved telenovela: Heart-wrenching dialogue. Doors slamming amid tears. Over-the-top theatrics.

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GE to offer electronic medical record financing

General Electric Co.'s health care division said Monday it will offer financing to doctors and hospitals that buy GE's electronic medical records equipment in an effort to cover an expected lag in the flow of federal stimulus money meant for the medical technology.

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GE plans to invest $6B to lower health care costs

General Electric Co. said Thursday that it will invest $6 billion over the next six years in an attempt to lower the cost of health care and improve the quality of medical care in underserved regions of the United States and abroad.

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China facing burden from chronic diseases

China faces a growing burden on its health care industry as the number of people with chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension and diabetes rises, the government said Friday.

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Obama budget would slow Medicare, Medicaid growth

The government's massive health insurance programs for the elderly and poor would grow more slowly under President Barack Obama's proposed budget.

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Insurer settlement could affect costs nationwide

UnitedHealth Group Inc. will close much-criticized databases health insurers use to set payment rates and help launch a new one to settle a fraud investigation, which could help millions of patients pay less for "out-of-network" care.

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Study: Health costs to rise nearly 10 percent

Employer health care costs are poised to rise almost 10 percent in 2008 — more than double the annual inflation rate — and nearly that much again in 2009, according to an industry report released Tuesday.

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Cuomo to Sue Major Health Insurers

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said he will sue Ingenix, its parent UnitedHealth Group and three subsidiaries, saying the insurers are defrauding consumers by manipulating how much doctors and hospitals are reimbursed.

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Medicare Issues Rate Cut for Doctors

Doctors who treat the elderly and disabled will face a 10 percent cut in their reimbursement rates from Medicare next year under a federal rule issued Thursday.

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Bush Skips Complex Realities in Address

President Bush set energy self-sufficiency goals Tuesday night that would still leave the country vulnerable to unstable oil sources. He also declared he is helping more people get health care, despite a rising number of uninsured.

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WASHINGTON — No sooner had Senator Blanche Lincoln promised to deliver one crucial vote in support of a health care overhaul than she threatened to withhold the next one.

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Days after a government task force radically changed its guidelines for using mammograms to screen for breast cancer, another critical preventive test-Pap smears-is under the microscope, heightening concern that both might be a first step down a slippery slope toward healthcare r …

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"I'm sort of a known skeptic on this stuff," Gruber told me. "My summary is it's really hard to figure out how to bend the cost curve, but I can't think of a thing to try that they didn't try. They really make the best effort anyone has ever made.

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If we are to believe the nightly news reports, half of our population is eagerly awaiting the Obama Administration's healthcare reform bill to bring about lower prices, faster service and medical care to everyone.

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Hark, fellow peasants, the House of Lords hath charitably queried its masters and shall permit a rather uncouth "bill of laws" to sully the golden carpets and golden chairs of its exclusive bordello of gold and money and diamonds.

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As the Senate prepares for the discussion of its health care reform bill this weekend, several bishops have sent the Senators a letter on behalf of the USCCB, calling the current version of the health care bill both a 'huge disappointment' and 'morally unacceptable.'

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Bankrupt G.O.P | 21st century Quakers

How long does it take to drive from England to the US? Me: You can't drive. Him: Why? Is it more than 8 hours? Me: You cannot. There is a 'pond' between the US and the UK.

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Senate Healthcare Bill added to H.R. 3590 is this a Tax bill or Healthcare bill?

The New house senate health care bill that Reid is trying to push though the senate was coupled with bill HR 3590 which is to admen the Internal Revenue code of 1986 for first time homebuyers credit for Armed Forces and Federal employees with the addition of " and for other pur …

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I am really frustrated I have been trying since 6AM Arizona to contact Senators in regard to H.B.3590 their phones are on answering, fax machins off and web site set up unless you live in their district they don't want to hear from you. So much for representing "We the People"

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Last Saturday night Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) forced through a vote on her 2,032 page health care bill only a few days after releasing it to the public.

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Reporting from Washington - Amid all of the uncertainties about how healthcare legislation would affect each American, one thing is clear: The more affluent would pay higher taxes.

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The powerful Teamsters union on Thursday broke with President Obama over Senate Democrats' health care bill that would slap an excise tax on insurance companies for so-called "Cadillac" health plans, the high-priced and benefit-rich coverage that unions have fought hard to win fo …

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The 2,074-page Senate health care bill would take 34 hours to read cover to cover -- and that's just what Sen. Tom Coburn wants done on the Senate floor.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that his health care bill costs about $848 billion in the first 10 years, well under President Obama's $900 billion target.

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Jobs - Permanent Jobs - Millions Of 'Em

Communist China, 1995--- the dawn of capitalism.

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This radical Christian's ministry for the poor, The Simple Way, has gotten him in some trouble with his fellow Evangelicals. We asked him to address those who don't believe.

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In my last post, I showed you what a roomful of Republican biotech-paid whores looks like. But in that same room are the following Democratic biotech-paid whores.

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As the NYT reported earlier today, Genentech/Roche wrote a Republican script and a Democratic script for its parrots to enter into the Congressional Record.

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The notion of imprisonment has its origins in the bill's requirement that most Americans must get health insurance, with the help of government subsidies if necessary, or pay a special income tax of up to 2.5%.

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Two articles: Faith Communities Coalesce Against Stupak

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To the Breastcancer.org community: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended dramatic changes to current breast cancer screening guidelines. Breastcancer.org is strongly opposed to these recommendations.

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Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammograms for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No. 2 cancer killer in U.S. women.

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There I was, expertly navigating through traffic, when a snippet of news came on. It was the voice of the Speaker of the House, Madame Pelosi, promising that the healthcare bill would be ready to give to the American people as a "Christmas" present.

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There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs.

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The House and would-be Senate bills rely on hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare to keep reform deficit-neutral.

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