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When the Senate unveils its health-care bill, all eyes will be on the price tag. But an equally significant number may be how many people get health insurance under the legislation. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 14, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health savings? No one knowsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Barack Obama ran for president on a promise of saving the typical family $2,500 a year in lower health care premiums. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 11, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
AP Sources: Reid Eyes Payroll Tax Hike On WealthyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 11, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Medical Association Backs Health System ReformEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals that threaten doctors' pocketbooks and independence. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 10, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Catholic Church Emerges as Key Player in Legislative BattleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key piece of President Barack Obama's agenda. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 10, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Bill Clinton Meets with Senate Dems on Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America's health care system. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 10, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes HouseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 8, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health Bill Garners EndorsementsEmail this article to a colleague.
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House Democrats' health bill got a boost Thursday with endorsements by AARP and the American Medical Association, which President Barack Obama seized on to push for support with hours ticking down before a scheduled vote Saturday evening on the House floor. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 7, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Details on Health Care Bills in House, SenateEmail this article to a colleague.
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House Democratic leaders are offering a $1.2 trillion, 10-year health overhaul bill that expands coverage to millions of Americans. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 6, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Haggling Over Abortion Deal in Health BillEmail this article to a colleague.
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House Democratic leaders struggled Wednesday to strike a deal that would restrict the use of federal money to pay for abortions under sweeping health care legislation headed for debate on the House floor this week. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 5, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
House Dems In Final Push On Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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The House is steaming toward a historic vote on President Barack Obama's remake of the U.S. health care system, with Democratic leaders increasingly confident and the powerful seniors' lobby AARP about to get on board. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 5, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health Bill Could Slip Into Next YearEmail this article to a colleague.
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Democrats have blown so many deadlines for getting health reform done this year that insiders are increasingly skeptical they can finish by year’s end — and some even suggest the effort might slip to a new deadline, before the State of the Union address. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 4, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health Bills Too Timid On Cutting Costs, Experts SayEmail this article to a colleague.
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Proposals make only trims where broader changes are needed, critics argue. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 4, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health Care Plan Hits Rich With Big Tax IncreasesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 2, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Obama Strategy on Health Care Legislation Appears to Be Paying OffEmail this article to a colleague.
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After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama’s arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - November 2, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
House Dems Unveil Health Bill, Cheered On by ObamaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 31, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Business and Drug Groups Blast Bill; Doctors Are UneasyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Business groups blasted the House healthcare bill released Thursday, and a key trade association for doctors declined to endorse it. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 30, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Senate Health Care Bill Draws Skeptics, OpponentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A health care reform bill with a government-run insurance option faced an uncertain future in the Senate on Tuesday, with many centrist Democrats uncommitted and Senator Joe Lieberman strongly opposed. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 28, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Public Option Push in Senate Comes With Escape HatchEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, sided with his party’s liberals on Monday and announced that he would include a government-run insurance plan in health care legislation that he plans to take to the Senate floor within a few weeks. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 27, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
If You Build A Coverage Mandate, Will They Come?Email this article to a colleague.
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People are more likely to buckle their seat belt than follow the speed limit, even though the penalties for speeding are higher. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 26, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
US Health Care System Wastes Up To $800B A YearEmail this article to a colleague.
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The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Monday. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 26, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Can 'Bundled' Payments Help Slash Health Costs?Email this article to a colleague.
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An hour into knee replacement surgery — with U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For playing in the background — Yogesh Mittal smiles as he raises the left leg of his patient, 76-year-old Frank Morrow. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 26, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Offer to Let States Opt Out of Health Plan Gains SupportEmail this article to a colleague.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, stepping deeper into the health-care debate, put his weight Thursday behind a proposal that would create a new government-run insurance plan while giving states the option not to participate. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 24, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Nancy Pelosi Lacks Votes for Most Sweeping Public OptionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi counted votes Thursday night and determined she could not pass a "robust public option" — the most aggressive of the three forms of a public option House Democrats have been considering as part of a national overhaul of health care. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 23, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Key Senators May Rebuff Obama On Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Democrats' control of a hefty majority in the Senate — plus the House — would suggest that President Barack Obama is within reach of overhauling the nation's health care system this fall. But the numbers mask a more complicated reality. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 22, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Democrats Lose Big Test Vote on Health LegislationEmail this article to a colleague.
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Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 22, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Congress Cranks Up Pressure On Insurance IndustryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved on Wednesday to repeal the health insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws, cranking up the pressure in a growing battle over President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 22, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Liberals Increase Pressure For Public Insurance Plan In Health BillEmail this article to a colleague.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is facing intensifying pressure from liberal lawmakers to revive a proposed government insurance plan before health-care reform legislation reaches the Senate floor, amid signs that moderate Democrats may be warming to the idea. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 21, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
In Mass., Most Docs Support State's Health MandateEmail this article to a colleague.
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As Massachusetts enters its fourth year under a sweeping law that aims to get nearly everybody health insurance, there's new evidence on what one crucial constituency thinks about it: doctors. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 21, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Basic Medicare Premium to Rise 15% Next YearEmail this article to a colleague.
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The basic Medicare premium will shoot up next year by 15 percent, to $110.50 a month, federal officials said Monday. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 20, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health Insurance Worries Keep RisingEmail this article to a colleague.
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The number of Americans worried about losing their current health care coverage keeps rising, even as President Barack Obama and a Democrat-led Congress strive to extend society's safety net to cover the uninsured, a new poll has found. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 20, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Public Option Gains SupportEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clear majority now backs plan; Americans still divided on overall packages. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 20, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Wellness Incentives Could Create Health-Care LoopholeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Get in shape or pay a price. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 17, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
White House Team Joins Talks on Health Care BillEmail this article to a colleague.
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A delegation of senior White House officials met on Wednesday at the Capitol with the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, and the chairmen of the Finance and health committees, as Democrats turned their full attention to merging competing versions of the comprehensive health care legislation. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 15, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Democrats Fire Back at Health IndustryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Days after the insurance lobby began an aggressive campaign against a Senate plan to overhaul the nation's health-care system, senior Democrats fired back, threatening Wednesday to revoke the industry's long-standing antitrust exemption. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 15, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Scenario: U.S. Healthcare Reform Reaches New StageEmail this article to a colleague.
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are negotiating ways to merge five healthcare bills into a single measure in each chamber that will rein in costs, regulate insurers and expand coverage. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 15, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Senate Committee Passes Healthcare BillEmail this article to a colleague.
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President Barack Obama said on Tuesday’s Senate committee vote for a centrist $829bn healthcare bill brought the US closer to his goal of achieving universal healthcare reform but warned Democrats “not to pat ourselves on the back” given the long road ahead. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 14, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Snowe Suggests Scenario For Government-Run OptionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sen. Olympia Snowe, the only Republican to support the Finance Committee's health care bill, said Wednesday she could foresee a government-run plan that would "kick in" if private insurers failed to live up to expectations. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 14, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
After a Key Vote, Health Overhaul Now Turns to Harry ReidEmail this article to a colleague.
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Now that the last of the five congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care, Max Baucus' Senate Finance Committee, has passed its much anticipated reform bill, it falls to majority leader Harry Reid to cobble together something that can pass the Senate. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 14, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health PlansEmail this article to a colleague.
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A proposed tax on high-cost, or “Cadillac,” health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House as they wrestle over how to pay for legislation that would provide health benefits to millions of uninsured Americans. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 13, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Report: Health Bills Show Some Price GapsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Older Americans who buy health insurance on their own could pay nearly 50% more in premiums under the Senate Finance Committee bill compared with other versions pending in Congress, an independent study says. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 10, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health Care Bill Gets Green Light in Cost AnalysisEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Senate Finance Committee will vote next Tuesday on legislation to revamp the health care system, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, said on Thursday. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 8, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
State-Run Health Plans Garner SupportEmail this article to a colleague.
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Some influential centrist Democrats in the Senate are warming to a compromise that envisions health-insurance plans run by state governments, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger added his voice Tuesday to a small group of Republicans expressing support for a Democratic-led overhaul plan. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 7, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Obama Finds Support Outside Party and Washington For Healthcare PlanEmail this article to a colleague.
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At the president's request, Republicans, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and independents from beyond the Beltway offer qualified support for healthcare overhaul. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 7, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
AP Poll: Health Care Overhaul Has a PulseEmail this article to a colleague.
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The fever has broken. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 7, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
In Debate on Health, It's Coverage vs. CostEmail this article to a colleague.
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As Democrats prepare to take up health care legislation on the floor of the Senate and the House, they are facing tough choices about two competing priorities. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 6, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
States Resist Medicaid GrowthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Governors fear for their budgets. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 5, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Insurers Say Coverage Penalty Has To Have BiteEmail this article to a colleague.
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The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Americans must have coverage. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 5, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Doctors Fight Penalty for Heavy Test UseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Doctors are trying to remove a provision in the Senate's latest health bill that would cut Medicare payments to those who administer the most tests and treatments. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 2, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Senate Republicans Criticize Taxes in Health-Care BillEmail this article to a colleague.
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As it drew close Thursday to finishing work on a health-care overhaul, a key Senate panel engaged in a spirited debate about whether the measure is "riddled" with tax increases that would violate President Obama's campaign pledge not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 2, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news
