WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is promoting his health care overhaul’s benefits for small businesses as he tries to rally public support behind the new law scorned by Republicans and protesters. A speech Thursday in Portland, Maine, is the second in a series of planned appearances to plug the sweeping changes coming to health […]
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Health and Wealth: Recession or not, some Maine hospitals haven’t skimped on pay for their top people.
LEWISTON — Central Maine Medical Center said it desperately needed money. The year was 2006 and if CMMC didn’t soon get the nearly $27 million the state owed it for providing care to elderly and poor patients, the Lewiston hospital told the Sun Journal it would have to cut community outreach programs. Stop performing expensive […]
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Raise your hand if you want to live in a nursing home
Certified Elder Law Attorney In my many years of practice as an elder law attorney, one thing has emerged as a universal desire of nearly everyone I have met: to stay out of the nursing home. When contemplating aging, most people are quite adamant that they wish to stay in their own home and many […]
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Health care industry kowtows to Obama
The health care industry just flopped on the floor and exposed its belly to President Barack Obama in a craven gesture of submission. Groups such as America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — key players in defeating Hillary Care in 1994 — sent Obama a letter voluntarily offering to […]
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President Obama has become health care’s enigma-in-chief
The most stunning and least reported news about President Obama’s press conference with health industry executives last week wasn’t those executives’ willingness to negotiate with a Democrat. It was that Democrat’s eagerness to involve those executives in a discussion about health care reform even as they revealed their previous plans to pilfer $2 trillion from […]
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A real partner would endorse a public option
If the health care industry is serious about working with the president, it would support public insurance. Representatives of the insurance, hospital, and the pharmaceutical industries pledged recently to work with President Barack Obama to reduce skyrocketing health care costs by $2 trillion over the next 10 years. The acknowledgment that simple reforms can add […]
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Situation is outrageous
I am writing to voice my surprise at how lax payment from the state has been to hospitals. They don’t ask for payment before treating anyone, unlike the dental profession. Everyone is treated regardless of payment source. If a business was run like this, it would exist no more. The health care industry should not […]
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A must for Americans
President Barack Obama’s affordable health care plan is a must, and part of our freedom as American citizens! The United States is the only country in the industralized world that still lives without universal healthcare, and the time has come. Citizens have to stand behind the president and move forward with this program. Howard Dean […]