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Childrens Health Plan Schip Renewed by Senate

Sam — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:33:20 +0000

SCHIP was just renewed again by the US Senate, but the Republican party fought tooth and nail against it. The honorable position should be that all children should have access to health care and medical treatment. But apparently not all lawmakers agree. Since 1997 the SCHIP program has provided health coverage to millions of children who need medical care, as some in Congress wish to deny them basic care, while continuing to blame their parents for being unable to provide that coverage. Read More

Health insurance coverage of autologous bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer : report to the Honorable Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate

Sam — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:39:13 +0000

Corker Says Senate Finance Health Care Bill Could Raise Some Premiums As Much As 60%

Sam — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:39:55 +0000

Speaking at town hall meeting in Bledsoe County today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill could raise the cost of health insurance for some Tennesseans by as much as 60 percent. Earlier in the day, Corker shared a similar message at stops in Warren and Van Buren counties. Read More

Clinton & Obama On Senate Veteran Affairs Committee, So Why Adovcate For Universal Health Care??

Sam — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:43:04 +0000

Why would the Democrats running for office advocate universal health care which is government run, when they can not even properly fund the government run VA?
As bad as the VA presently is, if somehow universal health care is elected in 2008, the VA will be worst than it was 20 years ago. Most local hospitals and medical clinics will be even worst off, because the total population of all Veterans is such a small minority of the total population in the US and the government still will not give us proper funding for medical care.
–“FORMER VA HEALTH CHIEF SAYS SYSTEM FACES SERIOUS
FUNDING AND MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES — Dr. Kenneth Kizer:
“We see a future that is not particularly bright for the VA.”– http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfJAN0…
Our last secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson, who did nothing for us veterans—-whom I have too say; has left the VA with much more respect than all of us veterans even receive at the VA… Read More