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• The Costs Of ObamaCare

  —Carroll Standard

  Health insurance premiums for individuals will soar 54% over the next five years above the normal inflation rate if the Senate health care reform bill passes, according to a new study commissioned by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

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  Posted: December 21, 2009, 1:26am EST
  

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• More than 45 million Americans now lack health insurance

  —Delusional Duck

  In the first six months of this year, 45.4 million Americans of all ages — or 15.1% of the population — had no health insurance, according to new National Health Interview Survey statistics released Wednesday. In addition, 58.4 million (19.4%) people of all ages had been uninsured for at least part [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 8:09am EST
  

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• Cardin gets grilled over insurance bill

  —Delusional Duck

  Dozens of small-business owners gathered Monday looking for answers from Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin about the tax credits, exemptions and other intricacies of the health insurance legislation being hammered out in the Senate this month. Speaking at a roundtable discussion to more than 50 businesspeople at the Prince George’s Economic Development [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:53am EST
  

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• Business owners grill Cardin over health care bill

  —Delusional Duck

  Dozens of small-business owners gathered Monday looking for answers from Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin about the tax credits, exemptions and other intricacies of the health insurance legislation being hammered out in the Senate this month. [...] The $848 billion Senate bill, which Democratic leaders hope to pass by Christmas, would offer several [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:06am EST
  

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• Medicare ‘buy-in’: A bargain or burden?

  —Delusional Duck

  Phil Tredway was intrigued when he heard the latest health insurance proposal making the rounds in Congress: letting people buy into Medicare starting at age 55. “I said, ‘Hey, wait a minute, I could get into Medicare. That might be good,’ ” says Tredway, 61, president of a plastics company in [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

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• Why Stop There?

  —Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis

  I found it a bit hard to believe, but for once I’m pretty much in agreement with Ezra Klein. In an op-ed published today he highlights the fact that one of the biggest problems with our current healthcare system is the employer provision of health insurance. Mostly he focuses on the [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:14am EST
  by Kevin Waterman

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• Car insurance scofflaws raise health mandate doubt

  —Delusional Duck

  Thousands of drivers on the nation’s roads don’t carry auto insurance, despite laws in all but two states requiring it. Critics of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul plan ask: What are the chances scofflaws will treat a requirement to carry health insurance any differently? Nearly 40 years of car insurance mandates [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:56pm EST
  

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• By 2019, Taxpayers Will Pay $196 Billion A Year for Obamacare, But 24 Million People Will Remain Uninsured

  —Salisbury News

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  Under the health care bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, by 2019 taxpayers will be paying $196 billion per year to subsidize other people’s health insurance coverage, but there still will be 24 million uninsured people in America, according to the Congressional Budget Office and [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:15am EST
  by joealbero

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• Health care’s ‘public option’ would cover little of population

  —Delusional Duck

  A proposed government-run health insurance program, among the most divisive issues in the health care debate, would cover less than 1.5% of the population, new estimates show. The latest version of the “public option,” included in the 10-year, $848 billion health care bill headed toward an initial Senate vote Saturday, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:28am EST
  

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