money.cnn.com - 1/20/2009
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to revive the economy, has proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic. Here's the audacious plan: Computerize all health records within five years. The ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/16/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Barack Obama did an interview at The Washington
Post yesterday where he apparently said a bunch of
stuff, including something that inspired the Post to run a big article about his plans for entitlement reform . But for a long article about how ...
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Obama, Entitlements, and Health Care
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... in pump-priming government spending, and another $275 billion in tax cuts of various sorts, according to the present plan in the House of Representatives. All kinds of possibilities are being proposed from daringly experimental renewable energy projects to computerizing health-care records and building a ...
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Suburban Guerrilla —
... This is one of the incremental plans (you know, of the “anything but single-payer variety) that the Obama people have put out there to “save money” in health care. (Even though experts estimate it would cost $75 to $100 billion to implement, which is a lot of simoleans, any way you slice it.) ...
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