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On Health Care, Obama Policymakers Tap Campaign's Network of Supporters (Washington Post)
Barack Obama's incoming administration has begun to draw on the high-tech organizational tools that helped get him elected to lay the groundwork for an attempt to restructure the U.S. health-care system.
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Can the Internet drive a health care consensus? (ZDNet)
The Internet, specifically a Web site called change.gov, is the tool with which the Obama Administration hopes to drive the health care debate, from the bottom up. by Dana Blankenhorn
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Insurers Offer Own Proposal for Health Care Overhaul (CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News)
It seems as though hardly a day goes by without someone putting out a plan to overhaul the American health care system, and Wednesday the health insurance lobby stepped up with its own version.
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Insurers Group Offers Centralized Health Care Proposal (Hartford Courant)
— Sharpening the emerging debate over how to reshape the country's health care system, the major group representing insurers on Wednesday announced a proposal for covering all Americans in a more centralized insurance market.
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UAW to suspend jobs bank, rework health-care trust (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said on Wednesday the union would surrender job security protections and rework a historic retiree health- care trust in concessions intended to help U.S. automakers clinch government aid to survive a sales downturn.
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Early Glance: Health Care Equipment companies (INO News)
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top health care equipment companies are down at 10 a.m.: Becton Dickinson fell $.44 or .7 percent, to $64.50. Covidien fell $.38 or 1.1 percent, to $34.94.
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Health Insurance, Business Lobbyists Join Discussions About Overhauling U.S. Health Care System (Medical News Today)
The Boston Globe on Wednesday examined how "[p]owerful special interest groups that helped torpedo health care reform 16 years ago are now advocating significant changes in the nation's health insurance and delivery system" and "participating in regular discussion about how to expand health coverage and lower costs.
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Miles J. Zaremski: Is Health Care a Right and Should It Be? (HuffingtonPost)
Why should health care be a right? After all, it is not written in our Constitution that it is an inalienable right; it is not contained in the Bill of Rights either.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield rewards city for health care innovations (The Haverhill Gazette)
Haverhill was given the Municipal Health Care Innovation Award by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in recognition of the city's creative approaches to control health care costs. "If every city and town in Massachusetts did what Haverhill did, we might not have a health care problem," said John Coughlin, vice president of sales from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
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Opinion Pieces Discuss Obama Administration, Health Care (Medical News Today)
Two newspapers recently printed opinion pieces about the incoming Obama administration and health care. Summaries appear below.
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