Topic: John McCain

of Americans, and maybe more, are still confused about the recently passed legislation--what it means for them and for the rest of the country. While it may sound a little like Uncle Sam forcing you to take your daily vitamin, health policy ...
Advocates for cancer patients decry waiting period; budget for high-risk pool seen as lowYou're afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down.Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new ...

Democrats seek to build momentum on healthcare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats pushing for a drastic overhaul of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system prepared for fresh battles on Thursday after President Barack Obama set out new details on his top policy priority.Obama was scheduled to meet with his cabinet ...

Health Reform: Kennedy Releases Bill, House Dems Get Rolling

Those are the broad outlines of both the health-reform bill Sen. Ted Kennedy released yesterday, and of a draft plan presented to House Democrats also yesterday. Some Republicans (including John McCain) have backed this sort of tax. Sen. Max Baucus said yesterday ...

Two Ways to Extend Health Insurance

But John McCain and Barack Obama disagree on how they'd repair it.McCain's PlanMcCain would offer tax breaks to encourage more people to buy health insurance. And as long as you keep an individual policy, your insurer generally cannot raise your rates because ...

Big Pharma Could Be Big Loser Under Obama Health Plan

Its analysis concludes that Obama's plan to let the federal government negotiate Medicare drug prices could cut industry revenues by a whopping $10 billion to $30 billion. That loss might be at least partly offset by Obama's plan to reduce the number ...

Arizona's Proposition 101 Would Block Universal Health Coverage

For all the talk about the McCain and Obama health plans, we haven't heard much about what's at stake at the state level in this election season. The measure would block the state from enacting a universal health-insurance plan. Perhaps more to ...

Health Care Costs: A Universal Problem

One of the few things that almost everyone in the United States, including both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, agrees on is that our country's health system must be reformed. For large corporations competing on a global scale, the cost of ...

McCain and Obama Agree: Medicare Needs New System for Doctor Pay

McCain and Obama have big differences about how America's health insurance market should work (duh). But their views converge when it comes to the way Medicare pays doctors - and their advisers have suggested both would shift the system away from the ...

COUNTDOWN TO THE VOTE: Health Care

John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D., Ill.), health care is the one that will have the biggest direct impact on consumers' finances. McCain, too, focused on health care as he made last-minute stump speeches in crucial voting states.. While both ...
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