01/09/2009
U.S. health care overhaul needn't break bank: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
An analysis of proposals to overhaul U.S. health care by President-elect Barack Obama and members of Congress suggests it is possible to insure all Americans without significantly raising total health spending.
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01/09/2009
Daschle: Health care flaws threaten economic security (CNN)
President-elect Barack Obama's point man on health care reform wasted no time in portraying a sense of urgency on the issue at his confirmation hearing Thursday.
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01/08/2009
Health secretary pick seeks health care overhaul (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tom Daschle told former Senate colleagues on Thursday that as health secretary he would learn from former President Bill Clinton's failed attempt to overhaul health care, an effort criticized as too long, secretive and hard to understand.
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01/08/2009
Tanden boosts health care reform effort (Politico via Yahoo! News)
Her former boss may be heading to the State Department, but Neera Tanden, a longtime adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who later worked for the Obama campaign, will stick with a topic she knows well: health care reform.
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01/08/2009
Daschle vows aggressive reform as health leader (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle pledged on Thursday to aggressively pursue healthcare reform and restore confidence in federal health agencies as he made his case to become President-elect Barack Obama's health secretary.
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01/08/2009
Daschle seeks aggressive health care overhaul (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tom Daschle told former Senate colleagues on Thursday that as health secretary he would learn from Bill Clinton's failed attempt to overhaul health care, an effort criticized as too long, secretive and hard to understand.
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01/08/2009
Court orders Swiss health insurance to pay for sex change (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The European Court of Human Rights Thursday awarded a Swiss transexual 15,000 euros (20,500 dollars) after her country's health insurance refused to pay for her sex change operation.
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01/08/2009
Obama health reform drive gets diverse backing (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to reform the U.S. health care system got an important vote of confidence on Thursday as a diverse alliance of doctors, a labor union, the drug industry and health insurers pledged to support the effort.
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01/08/2009
Obama Plan for Government Health Insurance Draws GOP Criticism (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama’s plan for expanding government health insurance to compete with private coverage drew fire from a leading Senate Republican during a nomination hearing for former U.S. Senator Thomas A. Daschle to run the Health and Human Services Department.
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01/08/2009
Obama's pick to lead on health care gets hearing (AP via Yahoo! News)
Expensive, mediocre and too often unavailable. That about sums up the nation's health care system, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head health and human services, said Thursday.
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