Senate Republicans vowed Wednesday to use every available tactic to delay voting on the health care bill, as Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., scrambled to unify Democrats in support of the legislation. ...more

December 17, 2009

It is symbolic of the Senate's health care bill that the section titled "No lifetime or annual limits" would allow insurance companies to impose annual dollar limits on medical care, meaning that patients in need of expensive cancer treatment, for example, could still be bankrupted. ...more

December 17, 2009

In a victory for people with cancer and other serious medical problems, the White House agreed Friday to help close a loophole in the Senate health care bill allowing annual dollar limits on their care. ...more

December 11, 2009

A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates. ...more

December 11, 2009

The AARP is backing the national health care bill for the same reason they endorse other products. They receive fees and commissions for products they endorse. The supplemental policies they endorse are quite lucrative. ...more

December 10, 2009

The Senate on Friday turned back a Republican effort to eliminate a long-term care insurance program to help seniors and the disabled, saving the plan, once championed by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in its health overhaul bill. ...more

December 5, 2009

Lawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut hole" - a gap in Medicare drug coverage that can cost thousands of dollars a year. ...more

December 4, 2009

Farmworker wages On Dec. 6 in Lakeland at the corporate headquarters of Publix Super Markets, a demonstration led by the Coalition of Immokalee Farmworkers will take place urging Publix to agree to pay an extra penny per pound for the tomatoes the grocer purchases. ...more

November 30, 2009

The United States has the best health care in the world, but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees and other arbitrary bureaucratic inventions. ...more

November 29, 2009

So what do you know about the health care bill? Unless you've been reading the legislation, you've probably been depending on talking heads, with their own agendas, to explain it. Here are some things to consider about the health care legislation, according to the Associated Press. ...more

November 29, 2009