Posts Tagged ‘ healthcare reform ’

For those who wanted to hear President Obama chart a clear roadmap to getting healthcare reform finished, last night would disappoint. As temperatures cool, I want everyone to take another look at the plan we’ve proposed. There’s a reason why many doctors, nurses, and health care experts who know our system best...
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Some groups, like the Chamber of Commerce and AHIP, are right up front about their opposition to healthcare reform. They might be slightly underhanded, like UnitedHealth's effort to pressure employees into writing members of Congress in opposition to reform, but at least we know what they're up to. Then there's Americans for Quality...
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Not very creative, those Republicans. From Roll Call : Acknowledging they can’t stop the Senate from bringing up a health care reform bill, Republicans have mapped out a strategy to draw out the debate, attack the measure’s core components and force difficult votes on vulnerable Democrats. Republicans have no illusions...
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House leadership has released this fact sheet on the key elements of the House healthcare reform bill that will begin in 2010 . Among the most important of these front-loaded provision are the creation of the high risk pool, extension of COBRA benefits (which should also include some sort of subsidy program, since...
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The AP is making the case that the hapless Roland Burris is indeed relevant in the Senate now, by virtue of his saying "I would not support a bill that does not have a public option.... That position will not change." He might not be, but he can't do it alone. It...
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They just aren't all that bright. Here's Mary Landrieu: Asked specifically about polling data showing the public option with strong national support, the conservative Democrat added, "I think that when people hear 'public option,' they hear 'free health care.' Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don't...
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There's a large set of stakeholders in the healthcare reform debate that have largely been overlooked in the debate, to the detriment of policy. That's state legislators, who have borne the brunt of trying to figure out how to deal with providing care to the uninsured with the increasing limited dollars. The Progressive...
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As if there were any question that the American people recognized the need for healthcare reform, here's another poll showing that they do, and what's more, a strong majority are willing to pay for it: The telephone survey of 3,003 U.S. adults conducted by Thomson Reuters found 63 percent willing to pay...
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The Committee launched right into the public option this morning, with Rockefeller setting the stage by asking sharp questions on how much the insurance companies were providing to the reform in contrast to how much they are likely to gain in the Baucus bill as is--half a trillion dollars--and questioning insurance company policies and...
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In an earlier post I speculated a bit on what mischief Kent Conrad might get up to to monkeywrench healthcare reform efforts. I wrote that before I found out precisely how far he's already gone to kill Democratic healthcare reform. Instead of measuring the impact of health care reform over ten years,...
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