Health On The Hill - April 19, 2010

Jackie Judd, Kaiser Family Foundation; Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing this week to discuss how to protect consumers from unreasonable health insurance premium increases. Separately, President Obama has signed into law a measure that would extend COBRA premium subsidies for unemployed workers and prevent a scheduled 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians through the end of May.

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<h1>Health On The Hill – April 19, 2010</h1>
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 Jackie Judd, <a href="http://www.kff.org/">Kaiser Family Foundation</a>; Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health NewsThe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing this week to discuss how to protect consumers from unreasonable health insurance premium increases. Separately, President Obama has signed into law a measure that would extend COBRA premium subsidies for unemployed workers and prevent a scheduled 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians through the end of May. Listen to <a href="https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/04/041910_khn_hoth_audio.mp3">audio version</a> (.mp3) or <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/legacy/DDAB69D1-E6AB-4BC7-A8F4-1BE26BBB806A">Read Transcript</a><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/041910-health-on-the-hill/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/041910-health-on-the-hill/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/041910-health-on-the-hill/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Health%20On%20The%20Hill%20-%20April%2019%2C%202010&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2Fnews%2F041910-health-on-the-hill%2F&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/041910-health-on-the-hill/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/041910-health-on-the-hill/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/041910-health-on-the-hill/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://kffhealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=11120&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0" style="width:1px;height:1px;">

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