http://mediamatters.org This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Health Care en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911250030 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911250030 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:23:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911240058 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911240058 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:48:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911240024 24 New York Post column, Betsy McCaughey suggested that both "women -- and men" would "lose" under the Senate health care bill because preventive care would be limited by the US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines, and quoted medical professor James Thrall stating: "I fear we are entering an era of deliberate decisions where we choose to trade people's lives for money." But insurers operating under the Senate health care reform bill are not required to adopt recommendations against preventive screening, only to adopt those recommendations supporting preventive screening.
]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911240024 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:38:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911240020 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911240020 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:58:48 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911240016 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911240016 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:33 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911240012 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911240012 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:23:05 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911240006 Wall Street Journal column, News Corp. vice president William McGurn wrote of the Senate health care reform bill: "Conservatives and Republicans rattle off any number of objections to the bill: It would bust the budget; it would force many families to replace private coverage with government; it would subsidize abortion; it would ration care, etc. These are all variations on the major argument: It's not going to work."]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911240006 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:33:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230050 http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230050 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:22:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911230037 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911230037 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:55:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911230035 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911230035 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:34:52 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230021 beyond the first 10 years by as much as $650 billion in the decade beginning after 2019.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230021 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:27 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230011 Fox & Friends that "what we see now in the Senate bill is the Senate saying that if you get an A or a B, then it's gonna be paid for. If you get a C, it's not gonna be paid for." In fact, the bill requires only that insurers provide coverage for screenings that receive A or B recommendations from the task force; it says nothing about whether insurers may or may not cover other categories of recommendations.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911230011 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:31:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220009 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:24:50 EST http://mediamatters.org/research/200911220008 Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace falsely claimed that it's a "fact" that the House and Senate health care bills direct the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to "determine what services, what tests, screening, are covered and aren't covered," and asked whether that amounts to "government rationing." In fact, the bills require insurers to implement task force recommendations in favor of specific preventive care, but they are not required to adopt those that recommend against preventive screening.]]> http://mediamatters.org/research/200911220008 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:13:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220001 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911220001 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:59 EST