From Investors.com.
The results are clear: Since 1970 — even without the prescription drug benefit — Medicare’s costs have risen 34% more, per patient, than the combined costs of all health care in America apart from Medicare and Medicaid, the vast majority of which is purchased through the private sector.
Since 1970, the per-patient costs of all [...]
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In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don’t unthinkingly approve “additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care.
He added: “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”
Obama said he has personal familiarity with [...]
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Apparently stimulus money and broadband are not all that interesting to the local folk here: Only around 100 or so people have showed up so far to hear Biden talk at noon at Seneca High School off Route 8 in Wattsburg. The room looked so sparse that about 30 or so chairs were removed by [...]
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You may have seen this picture — it’s Obama hugging a woman named Debby Smith during a “town hall” meeting to discuss his Health Care initiative. Smith has kidney cancer. She “told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job.” Smith is also an active member of [...]
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The state of California is the middle of a $21.3 billion shortfall, which could reach a $42 billion deficit that’s projected midway through 2010. On Tuesday, the state put six propositions on the ballot that critics suggest, will only reduce the deficit to $15 billion; the burden of a budget that’s too inflated [...]
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The Govenator suggests that a debate should be waged regarding the legalization and taxation of marijuana.
"Well, I think it’s not time for (legalization), but I think it’s time for a debate," Schwarzenegger said. "I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues, I’m always for an open debate on it. And I think [...]
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South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford responded to Senator Lindsey Graham’s comments regarding libertarianism, slamming the ideologue saying “We are not going to build a party around libertarian ideas." For Graham’s speech.
Now Mark Sanford.
There was almost a pejorative comment a moment ago. Sen. Graham spoke [...]
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Starting May 21 through Memorial Day agencies are participating in the national “Click it or Ticket” campaign. Officials said there will be “zero tolerance” enforcement and no warnings will be issued to those caught driving or riding in the front of a vehicle without wearing a seat belt.
However, Ohio’s seatbelt laws are still a [...]
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The Ohio Senate OKs a passenger rail plan, writes the Associated Press, that would link three major Ohio cities by train. The state is looking for "$250 million in federal stimulus money to build passenger rail between Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati." Republicans, who are waffling on the plan, say the issue is the estimated $10 [...]
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