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The National Health Care Bill benefits you and all Americans 2 years 8 weeks ago

Find out how the National Health Care bill is reform that benefits all Americans. Learn how healthcare insurance reform will be paid for. Without this insurance reform, you will keep paying for the uninsured with every month's insurance premium payment. Medicare subscribers benefit, children and young adults, families, and every American who IS already insured benefits from the National Health Care Reform Bill.

Vt. health reform bill moves to state Senate 1 year 8 weeks ago

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — It's on to the Vermont Senate for an ambitious health care reform bill that would put Vermont on the path toward a single-payer health care system. The bill — support for which was the subject of a Statehouse rally featuring doctors and medical students on Saturday — calls for a statewide, publicly funded health insurance to be set up by the middle of the decade.

Senate votes down public option 2 years 34 weeks ago

Senators convened Tuesday to vote on amendments to the health care bill that would add a public option, by which the government step into the insurance game.

The first amendment that was introduced, by West Virginia Democrat Rockefeller, was voted down 15-8. This was the amendment that would introduce a public option to the health care bill, now before the committee, that Republicans fear would dictate what providers could charge and force private insurers out of business.

Concern About Health Care Reform Makes Top News 2 years 21 weeks ago

Growing concern about health care reform makes top news one more time before the year comes to an end. Americans may have grown weary of the whole health care reform debate over the past year, but that doesn't mean they tuned out. We have followed the subject closely and read some interesting related headlines, like the one about the man who lost a finger while demonstrating at a health care reform rally (Ouch! Hope he had health care coverage:). "Concern About Health Care Reform Makes Top News" reminds us what the whole fight was about, and shares President Obama's comments at the end.

health and personal care 1 year 13 weeks ago

Health (or health care) is the treatment and prevention of illness. Health care is delivered by professionals in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health. The social and political issues surrounding access to health care have led to vigorous public debate and the almost colloquial use of terms such as health care (medical management of illness), health insurance (reimbursement of health care costs), and public health (the collective state and range of health in a population).