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Senate candidate Norton a stickler for conservative details

Running the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment was an opportunity for Jane Norton.

Credigy Receivables | Georgia health insurance companies and …

Health insurance companies in Georgia and many government agencies are focused on things like focus. Some areas of focus are the construction of public health policy. All health insurance companies in Georgia and the Government policy …

Public health care and health insurance companies? | Insurances …

Do you guys think private health insurance companies like UnitedHealth, Aetna will go down because of Obama’s public health care option? I see a huge price dips.

Democrats push public health insurance option in new bill (New Kerala)

By Arun Kumar, Washington, Oct 30 : Top House Democrats have upped the ante over President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform with a new sweeping legislation that includes a highly controversial public health insurance option.

Senate health bill has public option, no thanks to Obama

Good news, part 1: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday that the health care bill he’ll bring up on the Senate floor will have a public health insurance option. That means opponents of the public option will have to try to strip out the measure with amendments on the Senate floor. They don’t have 60 votes to do that. Good news, part 2: at yesterday’s press conference, Reid “definitively stated that a trigger bill wouldn’t get a [Congressional Budget Office] score – effec

Senate health bill has public option, no thanks to Obama

Good news, part 1: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday that the health care bill he’ll bring up on the Senate floor will have a public health insurance option. That means opponents of the public option will have to try to strip out the measure with amendments on the Senate floor. They don’t have 60 votes to do that. Good news, part 2: at yesterday’s press conference, Reid “definitively stated that a trigger bill wouldn’t get a [Congressional Budget Office] score – effec

The WonkLine: October 26, 2009

Welcome to The WonkLine , a daily 10 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below, and subscribe to the RSS feed . Also, you can now follow The Wonk Room on Twitter .   Health Care CNN is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will decide today if the merged Senate bill will include a public health insuranc

Aide: Reid likely to include public option in Senate health care bill

A senior aide tells CNN that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is likely to include an ‘opt out’ version of the public insurance option in the Senate health care bill Reid is currently crafting. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is poised to proceed with plans to introduce a Senate health care bill with a public health insurance option that would allow states to opt out, a senior aide to Reid told CNN on Sunday. The aide, who did not want to be quoted by name wh

Snowe job: is President Obama putting ‘bipartisanship’ before principle?

Who’s the boss? President Barack Obama and Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. As the healthcare reform debate drags on and on and on, well past its freshness date, and long past the time Congress and the administration should have been able to move on, a disturbing pattern is emerging. It works like this: the “blue dog” Democrats fight real reform, on behalf of the insurance industry; the public, which widely favors a public health insurance option, fights back; pro-reform members of Congress in bo

Democrats target major health insurers as monopolies

Health insurance companies for decades have been exempt from federal anti-trust laws and are exploiting that privilege to generate enormous profits at the expense of patients, Senate Democrats charged Wednesday. The laws allow companies to feign competition while really colluding to set prices. The Seanate debate is fueling calls to make a public health insurance option part of any reform bill. Lawmakers — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — want to repeal the anti-trust exemp