Did you know…
…that for health reasons, a major drug company is recommending that you take your pet with you on your Thanksgiving travels?
Obama recruits Daschle to help the Dems push healthcare reform
The Senate voted to debate their healthcare reform bill, defeating a Republican filibuster, but the debate will be a raging one.
Hospitals round-up for 11/23
See what’s up with Erie Shriners Hospital for Children, Hamot Medical Center, Susquehanna Health System, Laurel Crest Nursing Home, Allentown State Hospital, Altoona Regional Health System, and a proposed new treatment center for veterans.
Political minefield awaits health bill
Miami Herald reports:
BY DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes healthcare debate that’s sure to be punctuated by tense and unpredictable battles over some of the most incendiary issues in American politics today.
Debate on the $848 billion bill to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system is expected to start next [...]
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes healthcare debate that’s sure to be punctuated by tense and unpredictable battles over some of the most incendiary issues in American politics today.
Debate on the $848 billion bill to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system is expected to start next week, after the Senate returns from its Thanksgiving recess, and many lawmakers already consider it a golden opportunity to win long-sought projects and local aid for their constituents.
The flashpoints will be familiar — abortion, federal deficits, government involvement in healthcare decisions and other hot topics — and many Democrats already have said they want to see, and are well-positioned to seek, changes in the bill.
In fact, the legislation is moving ahead only because it got 60 votes Saturday night to proceed — the minimum needed — two weeks after the House of Representatives’ version squeaked through by five votes.
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Health care issues: What are GOP’s reform ideas?
Philadelphia Inquirer Reports:
A look at key issues in the health care debate:
THE ISSUE: Republicans are the minority party in both houses of Congress. What health care proposals have they advanced, and are they going anywhere?
THE POLITICS: The most viable Republican proposal on health care has come from Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, to use the threat [...]
PA says it will wage a war on diabetes
The effort, backed by the Rendell administration, is called the Pennsylvania Diabetes Action Plan.
King May Climb as Drug Companies Lure Private Equity
Bloomberg News reports:
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — King Pharmaceuticals Inc., LifePoint Hospitals Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. may be buyout targets as private-equity firms seek companies battered by the economy and poised to gain from the U.S. health overhaul.
The three companies, with market caps of about $1 billion to $3 billion each, are steady cash [...]
PA’s “revolutionary” autism law not doing what it promised
Some parents say that Act 62 has actually increased their trouble in getting care for their autistic children.
Did you know…
…that looking at pictures of loved ones helps patients to tolerate pain?