- Beloved pets left out in cold by insurers
Cats may have nine lives but getting a medical insurance policy to cover just one of those is likely to prove difficult in Hong Kong.
猫は9つの生活があるかもしれませんが、カバーするために医療保険を取得するだけで一人の困難な香港で証明する可能性があります
- Lessons From Health Bill Apply to Financial Reform
Health care bill schooled White House, Democrats on need for speed, message control
United States - Politics - Health Care Reform - Health care - Interest Groups 医療法案がグループ-金利で教育ホワイトの民主党は、ハウスの必要性、速度、メッセージ制御、米国は-政治-医療保険制度改革-医療
- Michael Tomasky: Today's print column on the lack of HCR bounce
Here's a link to my print column from today's paper, which features my musings on why healthcare reform's passage is a political negative so far for Obama and the D's, and what they might do to turn that around.And just for the purpose of preempting all the comments that are going to say that they shouldn't have done it after the Scott Brown election: that's crazy talk. Sometimes in life you have two choices, and neither is great. The choice of not passing would have been far, far, far, far worse for the D's.Like I said a dozen times, winning is winning and losing is losing and winning is better. It will poll better over time, but...ah well, click through to the piece.Obama administrationUS healthcareMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ここでは医療保険制度改革の通路は政治的な負のようfarオバマとはD。。u0026#39; sの理由で私の黙想を備えて今日の新聞、そして彼らは、すべての無力化の目的のためだけaround.And turnにするかもしれないから私の印刷の列には、リンクの彼らはスコットブラウン選挙後、それを行ってはならないと言うとしているコメント：クレージーな話だ
- Healthcare and divided government | Michael Tomasky
I'm intrigued by this new poll on attitudes toward healthcare reform, as we gear up for tomorrow's big (not actually so big) repeal vote. AP via HuffPo:As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided......The poll finds that 40 percent of those surveyed said they support the law, while 41 percent oppose it. Just after the November congressional elections, opposition stood at 47 percent and support was 38 percent.As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans support for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engineer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is.Passions have subsided, I suspect, because conservatives are less enraged now that they feel they have a voice in the government. Independents repeatedly say in polls that they are fine with divided government. So that leaves only liberals who are really unhappy, witness the 43% who want more changes.I wasn't happy on election night, Lord knows, but I guess in many ways Obama is better off with a divided government. If the Democrats ran everything, the Republicans, so expert at whining in opposition and ginning up phony accusations, could continue blaming every single bad thing that ever happened on the Democrats. And now, in independent voters' minds, the suspicion that Democrats are going to try to jerk the country to the left are null and void. They know it can't happen. The president and the GOP House have to fight over the middle, which is how the middle likes it, and whic 我々は明日のビッグ（は、実際にはそれほど大きくない）廃止の投票に備えて準備をするように私は、医療保険制度改革への態度に、この新しい調査に興味をそそらです
- Health (s)care
In the first of a two-part series, Glen Norris picks holes in Hong Kong's medical insurance coverage.
2回シリーズの最初のでは、グレンノリスは、香港の医療保険の穴を選ぶ
- More Solid Proof That Obamacare Is Working
Recent data provided by the nation’s largest health insurance companies reveals that a provision of the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – is bringing big numbers of the uninsured into the health care insurance system. And they are precisely the uninsured that we want– the young people who tend not [...] またはObamacare - - 医療保険制度への保険の大きな数字をもたらしている国内最大級の保険会社によって提供される最近のデータでは、手ごろな価格の医療法の規定は、ことが明らかになった
- Report: Health Costs up Slightly Under Senate Bill
Report: Senate bill would increase health care costs slightly but extend coverage to millions
Health care - United States Senate - United States - Health - Health Policy レポート：わずかに医療費を増やすだろうが、百万人に医療保険を拡張する上院の法案-アメリカ合衆国上院議員-アメリカ合衆国-健康-医療政策
- The CLASS Act on Life Support
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support. It is increasingly likely that the Obama Administration will never develop the actual insurance policies that were supposed to be available to consumers next year. コミュニティの生活支援サービスとサポート（CLASS）法は、2010年医療保険制度改革法に記載されている国の介護保険プログラムは、生命維持にあります
- Single payer health: it's only fair | Bernie Sanders
US healthcare is grossly distorted by waste and profit, while millions go uninsured. Americans deserve full universal coverageThe United States is the only major nation in the industrialised world that does not guarantee healthcare as a right to its people. Meanwhile, we spend about twice as much per capita on healthcare and, in a wide number of instances, our outcomes are not as good as others that spend far less.It is time that we bring about a fundamental transformation of the American healthcare system. It is time for us to end private, for-profit participation in delivering basic coverage. It is time for the United States to provide a Medicare-for-all, single payer health coverage programme.Under our dysfunctional system, 45,000 Americans a year die because they delay seeking care they cannot afford. We spent 17.6% of our GDP on healthcare in 2009, which is projected to go up to 20% by 2020, yet we still rank 26th among major, developed nations on life expectancy, and 31st on infant mortality. We must demand a better model of health coverage that emphasises preventive and primary care for every single person without regard for their ability to pay.It is certainly a step forward that the new health reform law is projected to cover 32 million additional Americans, out of the more than 50 million uninsured today. Yet projections suggest that roughly 23 million will still be without insurance in 2019, while healthcare costs will continue to skyrocket.Twenty-three million Americans still without health insurance after health reform is implemented? This is unacceptable. And that is why, this week, Representative Jim McDermott and I are announcing the re-introduction of the American Health Security Act, recognising healthcare as a human right and providing every US citize 何百万人も保険に未加入の行っている間、米国の医療が著しく、廃棄物、利益は歪んでいる
- The Republicans: no more party of no | James Antle
Winning the election was the easy part. Now the GOP has to govern tooRonald Reagan may have been a sunny optimist but conservatives have traditionally been a gloomy bunch. Tuesday's Republican victory, a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a party that was thought to be doomed to years in the minority, was a cause for conservative jubilation. Allow me to bring us back to our usual gloom and doom.The Democrats lost this election because they failed to appreciate the fundamental disconnect between the two distinct groups of voters who brought them to power in the first place: the Democrats' progressive base, which wanted to move the country to the left, and the independents, who merely wanted to be rid of George W Bush. Satisfying the first group always carried the risk of alienating the second.And alienate them they did. In 2006, 57% of independents voted for Democratic House candidates. Two years later, they broke for Barack Obama by eight points. This year, independents voted 55% to 40% for Republican congressional candidates. That's a shift from a 18-point Democratic advantage to a 15-point Republican one, in just four years.The Republicans now face the same risk the Democrats did after the last two elections, and they don't seem to be any more aware of it. Their conservative base, typified by the Tea Party, wants to move the country to the right. The independent voters merely wanted to rebuke Obama and fire Nancy Pelosi. In the process, they replaced a Congress that was to the left of the electorate as a whole with one that is to its right.Polls indicate the independents agree with the conservatives about runaway federal spending and budget deficits, just as they once showed independent agreement with progressives about the Iraq war and the need for healthcare reform. 選挙に勝つ簡単な部分でした
- And now, on to a subject that unites us (not) | Michael Tomasky
Okay, let's get back to a subject we love. Healthcare. On January 6, the CBO released its analysis of HR2, the HCR repeal bill. And guess what:As a result of changes in direct spending and revenues, CBO expects that enacting H.R. 2 would probably increase federal budget deficits over the 2012–2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion (on the basis of the original estimate), plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes that CBO and JCT will include in the forthcoming estimate. Adding two more years (through 2021) brings the projected increase in deficits to something in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes.Those projections do not include any potential savings in discretionary spending, which is governed by annual appropriation acts. By CBO's estimates, repeal of the health care legislation would probably reduce the appropriations needed by the Internal Revenue Service by between $5 billion and $10 billion over 10 years. Similar savings would accrue to the Department of Health and Human Services.Let's step back here. The people who typically scream about the deficit are the people who also want healthcare reform repealed. How can they reconcile these things? Easy. Magical thinking. As long as you believe HCR is socialism and believe that socialistic kinds of things must by definition increase the budget deficit, you can reconcile those two views in no time.When Congress does return to work next week, it will presumably take up HR2 quickly. The House will pass it. The Senate won't, and that will be that. But brace yourself for lots of hoopin' and hollerin' from the magical thinking caucus.There's actually more in the report. HR2's effect on the number of insured:Under H.R. 2, about 32 million fewer n さて、見てみましょう戻って私たちの愛の対象を得る
- Bart Stupak is no healthcare hero | Megan Carpentier
The executive order issued so that anti-abortion Democrats would vote for the bill places unfair pressure on womenIn a last-ditch, get-out-the-vote effort to convince the anti-abortion Democrats in the House to vote for a healthcare bill that contains anti-abortion language beloved by anti-abortion Democrats in the Senate, President Obama issued an executive order on Sunday promising to never, ever allow a single federal or unsegregated private dollar to pay for a single abortion in the United States (except in the cases or rape, incest or the life and health of the mother). He did this to provide Democratic congressman Bart Stupak the political cover he needed to vote for healthcare reform. Apparently, some people have said this executive order makes Stupak the hero of healthcare reform. It's a sad statement on American politics that working to defeat a piece of legislation that has the potential to bring health insurance (and thus better care) to millions of Americans – its other, many flaws aside – can ultimately lead to someone being labelled a hero.Until the law goes into effect in 2014 with the other provisions involving the healthcare exchange, two classes of women are covered by the Hyde Amendment and its lesser known cousin: women who are reliant on Medicaid, and women employed by (or covered by a spouse or domestic partner who is employed by) the federal government. Neither woman can have an abortion covered by their insurance company unless they wish to tell their insurer that the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest (which currently can and often is classified as a pre-existing condition, leaving one at risk of losing one's healthcare) or unless the government agrees that the abortion is necessary to save the woman's life or health. As the Washington Po 行政命令のように中絶反対派は、民主党は法案の最後の溝womenInに不当な圧力をかけること、責任逃れの投票の努力家では妊娠中絶反対派議員を説得するための医療法案の投票に投票すると発行は、妊娠中絶反対派の言語反最愛の妊娠中絶、民主党は上院で含まれています、オバマ大統領の日曜日にすることは、これまで（除くアメリカ合衆国内の単一の中絶の支払いのために単一の連邦や人種差別のない民間ドルできるように有望な執行命。例や強姦、近親相姦、あるいは人生とは、母親の健康）
- Michael Tomasky: GOP wins debating point over poor college students
So the GOP won a debating point in the Senate yesterday, meaning that healthcare reform does have to go back to the House for one more vote, because the bill has now changed slightly in the Senate.To cut to the chase, the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday is still law and will be law and nothing changes that. Also, the two points on which the GOP won are minor and don't have anything to do with health care, so as long as nothing else changes, the expectation is near-universal that the House will pass the changes easily and quickly.So what language did the GOP find on which they won their little victories? From the Politico:The provisions are included in one non-health-reform part of the reconciliation bill – a change to student lending laws sought by Obama. One provision would make sure students don't see cuts in their Pell Grants even if Congress doesn't appropriate enough money for the program, and the other strikes obsolete language. But they didn't pass the parliamentarian's muster – despite extensive Democratic efforts to make the reconciliation bill bulletproof to just such a technical challenge.I'm sure the parliamentarian's ruling for the GOP was technical, probably on the grounds that the above condition, if described correctly, could conceivably add to the deficit, which reconciliation isn't supposed to. All the same, it's somehow fitting that it has to do with striking a provision that would benefit poor and middle-income college students trying to get loans to better themselves. Somehow I suspect that if the student loan provisions had been aimed at underwriting Porsches for rich kids, the R's wouldn't have bothered.I'm on a train to NYC today -- incidentally, a comfortable train with free wifi and kingly legroom -- so posting may be a little light, or limi これは、法案はわずかに追跡するためにSenate.Toカットでは、この法案をオバマ氏が変更された署名だから、共和党は10日、医療保険改革は家に1つ以上の投票を戻らなければならないという意味は、上院での議論ポイント獲得法律に火曜日はまだ法律であり、法とは何も変更がされます
- Peruvian gov't to launch strategic plan to boost development
The Peruvian government will launch a National Strategic Development Plan next week, the National Center for Strategic Planning announced Monday.
The plan is designed to reduce poverty and rates of maternal and infant mortality, eradicate child malnutrition, and let the population have access to education, medicare and housing, according to the center.
The program aims to reduce poverty from 36 percent to 13 percent, and increase per capita income from 4,417 to 7,900 U.S. dollars over the ... ペルー政府は来週、国家戦略開発計画を開始し、ナショナルセンターの戦略的計画のため月曜日と発表した
- Should Rush Limbaugh leave the country? | Poll
US radio host Rush Limbaugh has said he will leave the country and go to live in Costa Rica if healthcare reform legislation is passed. Should he?
米国のラジオホストのラッシュリンボー、彼は国を離れるれれば、医療保険改革法案を可決され、コスタリカでのライブに行くと述べている
- 10.13覚える単語(私的メモ３)
domestic product 国産品
dramatic scenery 劇的な光景
due date 満期日
durable material 耐久性のある材料
early retirement 早期退職
economic growth 経済成長
electrical appliance 家電製品
electrical power outage 停電
electronic goods 電子製品
existing equipment 既存の設備
extended periods of time 延長時間
extra charge 追加料金
federal mandate 連。命令
financial setback 財政悪化
financial statements 財務諸表
first aid 応急手当
fiscal year 会計年度
fixed price 定価
free admission 入場無料
frozen food products 冷凍食品
further details より詳細な説明
general consensus 全体的な合意
guided tour 案内旅行
heavy traffic 交通渋滞
incidental expense 雑費
incoming call 外部からの電話
informed decision 説明を受けた上での決定
intended recipient 指定受取人
internal communications 内部連絡
legal advisor 法律顧問
limited capacity 収容能力の限界
local call 市内電話
long-term employment 長期雇用
loyal customer 得意客
major carrier 主要航空会社
manufacturing firm 製造会社
medical insurance 医療保険
missing luggage 忘れ物
monthly quota １ヶ月の割り当て量
mounting pressure 高まる圧力
natural resources 天然資源
- Q&A: US healthcare reform bill
The details behind Barack Obama's controversial healthcare legislationWhat was the vote about?The US does not have a universal public programme of healthcare akin to the NHS in the UK. Some 200 million Americans rely on employer-provided healthcare, while around 30 million purchase expensive private health insurance. Others rely on government programmes for the poor, elderly and veterans.The healthcare bill passed last night will extend care to 32 million more people, predominantly the poorest, giving the country 95% coverage. It will require most Americans to purchase health insurance and provide higher subsidies to those who cannot afford it, meaning more are insured.What happens next?The Senate had already passed the health bill on Christmas Eve. The House of Representatives vote means Barack Obama can now sign off the bill, which he could do as early as tomorrow.However, in passing the legislation the house also passed a companion bill, which contained some changes to the bill the Senate passed. The Senate must now pass this companion bill.What's in and what's out of the final bill? Obama had to promise that public funds would not be used for abortions, to win over a group of 10 anti-abortion Democrats, led by Bart Stupak. As a result, taxpayers' money can only be used to fund abortions after incest or rape. The issue was important to some Democrats in the mid-west who, with elections looming in November, were anxious about whether voters would punish any action seen to be pro-abortion. Another significant factor was getting fiscally conservative Democrats to back the bill. The announcement from the Congressional Budget Office, a research body, that health reform would cost $940bn (£627bn), which was less than had been expected, appears to have done the trick.How di バラクオバマ氏の論争の医療legislationWhatの背後にある詳細について？米国のヘルスケアは、英国では、NHSに近いの普遍的なパブリックプログラムを持っていない票でした
- Big Ben Nelson tolls for Wall Street | Richard Adams
The Republicans and Democrat Ben Nelson unite to filibuster Wall Street regulation reform bill in the SenateJust as he did at crucial times during the healthcare reform bill passage, Nebraska's Ben Nelson again split with the rest of the Democratic party and voted with the Republicans to hold up the financial regulation reform legislation.The Democrats plan to bring fresh votes to end debate – and thus over-riding the filibuster – tomorrow and Wednesday if needed, and remain confident that they can win the additional Republican vote required to get over the 60 vote hurdle to do so.Nelson's grand-standing may be a temporary gesture but it could give the Republicans valuable political cover, since it allows them to deny the charge that only Republican obstructionism is holding the bill back.The suspicion is that Nelson has been swayed by Nebraska's most famous financier, Warren Buffett, who has been lobbying hard for an exemption on existing derivatives contracts from the new bill.In response to the vote, President Obama was quick to attack the Republicans in strong language:I am deeply disappointed that Senate Republicans voted in a block against allowing a public debate on Wall Street reform to begin. Some of these Senators may believe that this obstruction is a good political strategy, and others may see delay as an opportunity to take this debate behind closed doors, where financial industry lobbyists can water down reform or kill it altogether. But the American people can't afford that … I urge the Senate to get back to work and put the interests of the country ahead of party.US CongressDemocratsRegulatorsRepublicansObama administrationFinancial crisisUS economyUS politicsRichard Adamsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is s 彼は重要な時に医療保険制度改革法案の通過時のように、共和党と民主党のベンネルソン氏は議事妨害をSenateJustでウォール街の規制改革案を団結させる、ネブラスカ州のベンネルソンは再び民主党の残りの部分に分割し、共和党とまで保持するために投票金融規制改革legislation.The民主党は新鮮な票を持って議論を終わらせる計画 - そのために、議事妨害を - 明日水曜日必要に応じて乗って、その彼らが追加共和党票を60票のハードルを乗り越えるために必要な勝つことができる確信しているso.Nelson。。u0026#39;を行う際に一時ジェスチャーことができる壮大な理解を掲載し、それは、共和党の貴重な政治的なカバーを与えることができる、それは彼らが担当するだけ共和。妨害行為を、法案のback.Theの疑いを持っている拒否することができますので、ネルソンは左右されているハード投票に新しいbill.In応答から、既存のデリバティブ契約上の免除ロビー活動を行っているネブラスカの最も有名な投資家は、ウォーレンバフェット、オバマ大統領は強力な言語で共和党を攻撃への迅速なされました：私は深く失望して、上院共和党ブロックを開始する、ウォール街の改革に関する公開討論を可能に反対票を投じた
- Fourteen U.S. states file lawsuits over healthcare reform law
Fourteen U.S. states filed lawsuits on Tuesday challenging the health insurance reform law signed earlier in the day by President Barack Obama, claiming the law violates the constitution.
Thirteen state attorneys general, led by Florida's Bill McCollum, who is running for governor, filed a collective lawsuit, claiming it's unconstitutional to require everyone to have healthcare coverage.
McCollum was joined by counterparts from Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Penns ... アメリカの14州26日、健康保険改革法に挑。訴訟を提起する以前の日にバラクオバマ大統領が署名、法律と主張し、憲法に違反します
- Barack Obama postpones Pacific trip as healthcare vote looms
White House press secretary deflects report that president said fate of his administration was at stakeBarack Obama was today forced to postpone a trip to Australia, Indonesia and Guam in order to be in Washington for what he hopes will be the passage on Sunday of his healthcare bill, the biggest piece of domestic legislation on his agenda.The trip had already been delayed and shortened because of the bill. As the timetable on its passage slipped further, the White House bowed to what had become almost inevitable and pulled out of the trip. It is to be rescheduled for June.The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, told a press conference that it would be bad manners to wait until Sunday morning to tell the Australian and Indonesian leaders he was not coming.Gibbs expressed confidence that the bill will be passed. He refused to confirm or deny a report that Obama told a group of Democratic members of Congress earlier this week that the fate of his presidency rested on passage of the bill.Although a handful of Democrats who voted against an earlier version of the bill in the House gave their support in the past 48 hours, the Democrats do not yet have the necessary 216 votes for it to pass.The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was given a boost today as she lobbied fellow Democrats to support the bill. The Congressional budget office put the cost of health reform at $940bn over 10 years, marginally lower than had been expected and possibly low enough to be acceptable to Democratic fiscal conservatives.The budget office estimated the reform would reduce the federal deficit by $138bn over its first 10 years and $1.2tn in the second decade. Obama has been battling for more than a year to pass the legislation, which would extend healthcare insurance to more than 30 million Ame ホワイトハウスの報道官は報告書は、大統領が政権の運命stakeBarackのため、ワシントンで、彼の医療法案の日曜日に通過されるよう期待していることがオバマ氏は本日、オーストラリア、インドネシア、グアムへの旅行を延期を余儀なくされている偏向彼agenda.The旅行に国内法の最大の作品はすでに遅れていたが、改正案のために短縮しました
- House Democrat says still short on health votes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House officials on Sunday confidently predicted quick final passage of healthcare reform but a top Democratic vote-counter said the party still needs to line up more support in the House of Representatives.
ワシントン（ロイター） - ホワイトハウス高官日曜日に自信を持って、医療保険改革の民主党の投票カウンターパーティはまだ下院でより多くのサポートを行する必要があると簡単に最後の通過が予想した
- Obama publishes new healthcare plan
Seven-page plan includes sweeteners to win back voters and offers chance of reviving US healthcare reformBarack Obama today moved to end the month-long paralysis in Washington over healthcare reform by finally publishing his own proposals, including a populist measure to curb excessive rises in insurance premiums.Obama is to present the seven-page plan, posted on the White House website, to a joint meeting with Democrat and Republican members of Congress in Washington on Thursday.The plan offers a chance of reviving healthcare reform, the flagship legislation of the Obama administration, when it looked as if it might be killed off after the Republicans stunning Massachusetts Senate victory last month.The Senate and House have passed different versions of healthcare reform and the Democrats were about to thrash out a compromise bill for a final vote when Massachusetts disrupted their plan.Obama has basically taken the Senate version of the bill and added sweeteners aimed at winning back voters who expressed hostility to the reform.The biggest sweetener is the creation of a body that will decide whether increases in premiums by insurance companies are unreasonable. This comes on the back of angry public protests in California after an insurance company raised its premiums by 39%.The White House is also promising to make insurance more affordable by providing the biggest tax cut for healthcare in history, reducing costs for tens of millions of working-class families and small businesses and extending healthcare to 31 million more Americans.The new bill offers a way through the tortuous legislative process for the Democrats. They can pass the Senate version of the bill, and then at a later date come forward with another bill to amend any remaining controversial issues. Thes 7ページの計画を有権者と米国のヘルスケアreformBarackオバマ氏、今日の復活を提供してチャンスを取り戻すための甘味料が含まれて今月末にワシントンで長い麻痺の医療改革の最終的に保険料の過度の上昇を抑制するポピュリズム的措置を含む彼自身の提案は、公開することにより移動premiums.Obama 7ページの案を提示するために、ホワイトハウスのウェブサイトで、Thursday.The計画に、民主党とワシントンでは議会の共和党議員との合同会議に送信される医療保障制度改革の復活のチャンスを提供し、の旗。立法オバマ政権とき、あたかも共和党素晴らしいマサチューセッツ州上院議員の勝利更新month.The上院と下院の後にオフに殺されるかもしれないと民主党についての最終的な投票のための妥協案を徹底的に議論していた医療保険改革の異なるバージョンを通過していたときにマサチューセッツ基本的には法案の上院で撮影し、甘味料はreform.The最大の甘味料への敵意を表明した有権者の賞金を目的としましたがplan.Obama中断するかどうか保険会社による保険料の増加が判断する身体の創造物である無理
- Votes uncertain as healthcare endgame looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top healthcare official on Sunday seized on a new report to urge quick passage of healthcare reform legislation, but a top Democrat said they did not yet have the votes in Congress.
ワシントン（ロイター） - 日曜日のバラクオバマ大統領への医療関係者は、医療保険改革法案の早期成立を促すための新しいレポートでは、しかし、押収した上、民主党は、まだ議会での投票を持っていなかったと述べた
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