Health care

Blaine's Bulletin: A Better Way to Improve Our Nation's Health-Care

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I’ve said it a lot lately, but it’s worth saying again: there is a Better Way. Our country is on the wrong track. I’ve heard it time and time again from constituents all across central and eastern Missouri. Every conversation, meeting, and tour that I have touches on at least one of the areas that the Better Way agenda seeks to solve.

Blaine's Bulletin: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Many of us have been affected, one way or another, by cancer. Whether you are battling some form of the disease, or it is afflicting a loved one, friend, colleague, or neighbor – unfortunately, we are all bound to know someone who is fighting cancer. Both of my parents battled different forms of the disease.

A Better Way: Part V

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48. 3,775. $1.058 trillion. These aren’t random numbers: they represent different directions for our health-care system. The first number represents what our health-care system could be. The other two are the crushing costs of Obamacare.