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Baby Steps to Healthcare Reform
Three concise healthcare reform proposals are offered — eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions, allowing insurers to sell across all US markets, and adopting a loser-pays malpractice standard — with particular emphasis on how loser-pays would curb frivolous suits and the hidden costs of defending dropped claims.
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Nationalized Healthcare and the Free Market
A scenario is laid out in which nationalized healthcare arrives not through legislation but through a government-sponsored insurance option so much cheaper than private plans that employers adopt it by default, eventually leaving physicians and hospitals with a de facto single payer.
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Biden VEEP??
Obama selected six-term Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate, prompting skepticism about how a longtime Washington insider squares with a campaign built on the promise of change.