Are We About To Resurrect The “Death Panels” Debate?

Are We About To Resurrect The “Death Panels” Debate?

In 2009, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin poured gasoline onto a fire that needed little stoking – the effort to craft and pass the Affordable Care Act – when she infamously declared that a proposed health law provision aimed at encouraging end-of-life planning would lead to the “rationing” of care, labeling them Obamacare’s “death panels.”

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Unions Feel Costs Relating To Obamacare

Unions Feel Costs Relating To Obamacare

New costs relating to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has unions and employers battling over who is going to pay for them.  Whether it's who pays the bill for dependents who are allowed to stay on their parents health insurance plan until they turn 26 or the tax on premium plans which starts in 2018.

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VA Scandal Shows The Real Problem: Doctor Shortages

VA Scandal Shows The Real Problem: Doctor Shortages

Radiologist Eric Schnipper told CNBC's "Street Signs" that the major problem facing American healthcare is simple supply and demand economics.  This is not just a Veterans Affairs (VA) issue, "every state is forecasting a physician shortage" according Dr. Schnipper who is co-founder of Emergency Coalition to Save Cancer Imaging.

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