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Health Care Overhaul Opponents Use Selective Stats
There’s a brewing controversy over the effect a government-run “public” health insurance plan would have on private insurers. Critics say that 119 million people would lose private insurance if such a plan went into effect. But people who did the study say that’s not the whole picture.
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KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey Discusses The Latest Developments In Senate, House Reform Bills
Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today released their health care reform bill called “Affordable Health Choices Act.” Kaiser Health News Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey discusses the bill.
A new memo from Democratic pollster Celinda Lake is the latest to give advice for partisans on shaping the health reform legislation messages to the public.
Health On The Hill — May 29, 2009
Kaiser Health News’ Mary Agnes Carey discusses upcoming and recent activities on Capitol Hill.
Insurers Apply Different Methods In Making Coverage Decisions
Public and private insurance plans say they evaluate medical services for coverage by looking at published scientific research, rating the evidence and making comparisons based on effectiveness and safety. But their approaches vary widely in terms of transparency, comprehensiveness in reviewing evidence, openness to outside suggestions and explicit consideration of cost.
Letter From Obama to Sens. Kennedy and Baucus
President Obama sent this letter to Senators Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus regarding health reform.
Sen. Max Baucus told single-payer advocates Wednesday that he regrets not allowing more discussion of the single-payer plan in attempts at health care reform, but that it’s too far along in the process to consider it now.
Daschle Gives Health Reform 50-50 Chance Of Passing
The man originally designated to run President Obama’s health reform effort debated President Bush’s HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt about possible overhaul legislation.
Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Sen. Max Baucus
This webcast features Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., at a Health Care Reform Newsmaker media briefing sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Business.
Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Sen. Chris Dodd
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee at a newsmaker briefing sponsored by the National Federal of Independent Business, Families USA and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
