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"We Need a Better Change in this Country" - Mother of 17-Year-Old Girl Who Died After Private Insurance Denied Claim for Liver Transplant

We speak with Hilda Sarkisyan, the mother of Nataline Sarkisyan, who died two years ago at the age of seventeen after the insurance giant CIGNA denied her claim for a liver transplant. "We need a better change in this country, and I'm willing to help the President to do that"¦I want to meet him. I want him to feel how it feels not to have a daughter. He has two girls; he should know," says Hilda Sarkisyan. "If we don't stop this now, every family is going to have my story in their family." Ref. Source 3

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The problem with this is that government-controlled insurance has a long history of being much more likely to deny health care to people than private insurance. There are thousands of stories about people in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany, etc, who have died because the government insurance boards decided that specific treatments were not suitable for a particular patient.

We even have a lot of similar stories in the United States, in the Medicaid and Veterans' Administration system.

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Former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has been putting her point of view forward on Facebook. She has some good points, and I think the White House is having a difficult time really addressing some of them.

Here is another portion of her post:

Sarah's ideas make a lot more sense to me than President Obama's.

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Mother Speaks Out on Insurance Giant CIGNA's Denial of Healthcare to Cancer-Stricken Twin Daughters

Stacie Ritter's twin daughters were diagnosed with cancer at the age of four. Their insurance provider, CIGNA, denied them coverage even though they had been covered by the family's former insurer. The incident marked just the latest chapter in the family's ongoing troubles with the health insurance industry. A few years ago, the Ritters filed for bankruptcy due to their high medical expenses-even though they had health insurance at the time. Stacie Ritter joins us to tell her story. Ref. Source 9

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Healthcare Roundtable: With Exclusion of Single Payer, What Opportunities Remain for Meaningful Reform?

While much of the healthcare debate in Washington and the media has focused on the proposal to create a government-run insurance program, the legislation being considered includes many other provisions that could change how healthcare is delivered in this country. We host a roundtable with three guests who have been closely following the debate: Lois Uttley, co-founder of Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need; Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of Health Initiatives at Community Service Society of New York; and Dr. Oliver Fein, president of Physicians for a National Health Program. Ref. Source 7

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Health Care Reform Closer

The US House of Representatives has narrowly backed a landmark healthcare package, in a step towards reforms promised by President Obama Ref. BBC

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Health Care Bill Gets House Approval, Abortion Funding Battle Shifts to Senate
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The health care bill in Congress received its first favorable vote in a chamber of Congress on virtually a very narrow vote Saturday night. Passage of the legislation came after lawmakers voted for the Stupak amendment to remove abortion funding from the legislation.

The House voted 220 to 215 with 39 Democrats joining 176 republicans to oppose it and 219 Democrats and one Republican in favor.

Although the Stupak amendment removes the abortion funding under the public option and affordability credits, not all of the pro-life concerns are resolved with the bill.

The measure appears to contain strong conscience protection regarding abortion for medical professionals; however, "Section 304(d) protects abortion practitioners from "discrimination" by pro-life insurance plans who want to participate in the exchange, but do not want to contract with abortionists," says Americans United for Life.

"This limits the extent to which an insurance company can be pro-life," the pro-life group indicates. Also, while Sections 258(a) and (B) "provide that there is no preemption of state laws on abortion or of federal protections for conscience ... The conscience protection in the bill does not extend to pharmacists and pharmacies and there is no assurance that state laws protecting the conscience of these health care providers will not be preempted," the pro-life group notes.

HR 3926 also contains numerous end-of-life concerns. The debate on abortion funding now moves to the Senate, where two different committees have approved two bills, both of which include abortion funding. The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 last month to send a pro-abortion health care reform bill to the Senate floor. The Baucus bill, named for the chairman of the panel who is its main sponsor, would fund abortions with massive subsidies. Ref. Source 2

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House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill with Amendment Backed by Anti-Abortion Lawmakers

The bill has been described as the biggest overhaul of the country's healthcare system since the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. Among those who voted no was Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich, a leading proponent of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all healthcare system. Reproductive rights took a hit Saturday night when the House also passed an amendment to establish limits on the funding of abortions within the new framework that would be established by the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Ref. Source 4

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Healthcare - Where are the lawyers?

Only 34% of people actually want government running their healthcare, but special interests are keeping the bill alive. Special interest groups like the AARP who stand to make huge profits on gap insurance if the bill passes. And what about attorneys? Haven't heard any of them speak out against the bill. Glenn talks to our resident shady attorney, Joe who explains why his ilk love Obama's healthcare plan. Ref. Source 1