Since last spring, the noisy and sometime rancorous health-care-reform debate has kept all eyes and ears on Washington. It now appears the probability is high that a health-care-reform bill will be signed by President Obama. Given what our state is contemplating with respect to the next round of budget cuts, I think some sharp focus [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 22, 2010
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The United States Senate seems headed for a vote on a nearly $1 trillion health-care overhaul. We all recognize the need to change the current system of delivering and financing health care â in order to ensure quality and to make coverage more affordable. The problem is that there is no evidence that the current proposals in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Democrats are working to create a “dependency class” in America in an effort to expand their political base and stay in power. “That’s part of the motive,” King said when discussing federal health-care reform efforts with reporters after a Tuesday taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press.” King, who represents Iowa’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
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Oleta Fitzgerald, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office, says she is concerned over the welfare of Mississippi children if either of the two health-care reform packages considered by the U.S. House and Senate ever make it into law. The House passed H.R. 3962 earlier this month, and Senate Democrats managed to beat back [...]
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Friday, January 22, 2010
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