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  • 1 in 10 Canadian Leaders Says YES to American Medicine

    The Premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland will be hop-scotching across the border soon. Why you ask? Well, to access the best medical system in the world – the USA.
    As reported by national Canadian media, Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.
    The Premier decided to forgo [...]

  • The State of Our Union

    With the President poised to deliver his first State of the Union before a nation battered by massive job losses, months of political wrangling over health reform and a future that doesn’t seem as certain as it once was, it seems that the toll is setting in.
    Case-in-point: A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll release yesterday [...]

  • The “People” May Actually Decide This One….

    Today is definitely going to be another nail biter in the spiraling drama that is health care reform.
    Massachusetts voters go to the polls today to decide an unexpectedly close U.S. Senate contest between Democrat Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, and Republican Scott Brown. The special election is for the former Senate seat of [...]

  • Nice cadillac (plan) you have there….I have a deal for you

    The White House has reached a deal with health care negotiators (READ: Democrat negotiators) and labor unions (READ: Democrat base) on taxing the so-called high-level “Cadillac” plans that workers with high-risk jobs often purchase. The excise tax on high-cost insurance plans has been one of the biggest sticking points in the negotiations, as President Obama [...]

  • Another Closed Door Meeting

    House and Senate leaders are meeting with President Obama today to try to “reconcile their differences” over the direction of health care legislation.
    While the so-called “public option” may be dead, government-run health care is alive and well.
    Congressional Democrats are working in secret behind closed doors to decide whether to create a massive new federal health [...]

  • King Making

    PPF.org wanted to share with you a letter to the editor that caught our eye…especially as the Democrats in the House and Senate are now working to marry their bills behind closed doors.
    The question now is which version will prevail: the Senate’s state-by-state health insurance exchange or the House’s version that is the [...]