Articles tagged:Healthcare reform

Posted: Thu Oct 28 11:49 a.m. by Letters to the Editor

I'm voting to reelect Congressman John Dingell because of his tireless support of the Affordable Care Act (health care reform). Here's how health care reform benefits my Mom and Pop downtown business (Downtown Home & Garden). Our business strategy depends on stable, well-informed employees for us to compete with large ...

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Posted: Sun Mar 28 6 a.m. by kiddoc

The healthcare system is confusing, even to those who work in it. The president’s signing of health insurance reform into law this past week represents a fundamental shift in our healthcare system with expanded coverage to more than 30 million previously uninsured Americans. The new law also serves to simplify ...

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Posted: Sun Mar 21 6:35 a.m. by Letters to the Editor

It is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to finish the job and pass health reform As a pediatrician, I can tell you firsthand that our children are hurting. Not only do I see children whose parents don’t have the high-quality, affordable health care coverage they need and deserve, ...

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Posted: Sun Mar 7 6:02 a.m. by Guest Column

Count me among those who were not terribly disappointed at the outcome of the recent Senate race in Massachusetts to fill the un-expired term of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. The election of Scott Brown, a conservative Republican who until recently was an obscure state senator, in a state well ...

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Posted: Fri Jan 29 4:54 p.m. by Paula Gardner News Director

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed a broad plan on Friday to cut government costs, including a proposal she hopes will coax thousands of eligible state employees and public school employees into retirement.

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Posted: Sun Jan 17 7:13 a.m. by Letters to the Editor

Due to the poor way in which this medical reform process has been handled, I have come to believe that Medicare for all is the only "reform" option that should have been presented from the very beginning. There is no one that I know of, Republican or Democrat, who would ...

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Posted: Sun Jan 17 7:10 a.m. by Letters to the Editor

Healthcare reform is crucial for the sustained prosperity of our country, and for the well being of all Americans. We desperately need REAL competition in the health insurance industry - this can ONLY come from large public insurance options - the current bill is severely deficient and is a 'giveaway' ...

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Posted: Fri Oct 30 4:49 p.m. by Cindy Heflin News producer

Yahoo News has an opinion piece from U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, pushing his Energy and Commerce Committee's Affordable Healthcare for America Act.

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Posted: Tue Oct 27 11:25 p.m. by Cindy Heflin News producer

The announcement Tuesday by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., that he will vote with Republicans to block a vote on health-care reform in the Senate, is already drawing praise and scorn by media outlets. The Wall Street Journal welcomed Lieberman's decision to oppose a bill with a public option: "Bravo, Joe. ...

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Posted: Wed Sep 30 11:07 a.m. by Tina Reed

A University of Michigan survey found fewer than half of graduating medical students believe they have an adequate understanding of health care systems. The future doctors overwhelmingly reported feeling clinically prepared as they left medical school. But they said they lacked confidence in understanding the economics of the health care ...

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