Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses And Patient Care (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
First, we were told that the 10-year cost of the Senate bill would be less than a trillion dollars. This was to be regarded as a matter of great celebration. Then, we learned that the federal government during the first...
David Freddoso catches Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) in an unscripted moment of truth: “Health care reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or it’s $2.5 Trillion, depending on where you start…” Of course, regardless of where [...]
Jeffrey Anderson runs the numbers: Senate Republicans have just released an outstanding chart highlighting the accounting games that Democrats are playing with the costs of their proposed health-care overhaul. The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years. But Congressional Budget Office projections show that only 1 percent of those costs [...]
Sen. McCaskill: Senate must pass health care legislation, move to control spiraling costsHealth care - Health - Claire McCaskill - Home Health - United States