As Health Debate Heats Up, Public Opinion Appears To Cool
According to a new tracking poll, while the majority of Americans still consider health reform important they are growing dispirited with the ongoing debate.
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COBRA Help For Laid-Off Workers May Come Before Christmas
The COBRA subsidy extension now pending in Congress could be considered in the Senate this weekend.
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Fact Check: Taxes And Health Reform
As part of a continuing series, "Is That So?" NPR examines a claim from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas. She said that if the Democrats' health bill passes, some taxes would increase right away, while benefits wouldn't start until 2014.
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Opinion Column
Losing the Real Health Care Debate
The Democratic health reform bills are riddled with contradictions and fiscal gimmicks
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Congress and Medicare: Letting Go Is Hard to Do
Democrats' health plan would give agencies more power to test and expand promising approaches to holding down costs, but the question remains: Can lawmakers resist interfering in efforts that could hurt incomes of home-state providers?
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Opinion Column
Let Women Decide On Medical Tests
It is entirely reasonable for women to decide to get mammograms beginning in their forties. It is also reasonable for them to decide against it, and neither guidelines nor their physician's personal opinion
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Primary Care For All In This Rhode Island Town
Scituate, R.I., has taken its own first steps toward health reform by creating a system for the town's uninsured residents that allows them access to basic primary care services.
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Checking In With Consumer Union’s Jim Guest
Consumers Union added its voice to the congressional health care debate by airing a 30-second television ad supporting reform. Although the group is known for taking public positions on consumer products and services, it has never before broadcast a television commercial on a public policy question. KHN talked to the group's president and CEO about the decision to air the ad as well as the results from a recent telephone survey the organization conducted.
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Transcript: Health On The Hill – Passing A Health Bill Before Christmas?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., continues to push his party to approve health care overhaul legislation before Christmas, but concerns over many issues, including abortion funding and a possible early buy-in for the Medicare program, could cause that timetable to slip.
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Health On The Hill – December 14, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., continues to push his party to approve health care overhaul legislation before Christmas but concerns over many issues, including abortion funding and a possible early buy-in for the Medicare program, could cause that timetable to slip.
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Opinion Column
Why $75-A-Day Matters to Caregivers
Critics of the CLASS Act argue that $75-a-day is insufficient. But a new study shows that millions could benefit.
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10 Experts Weigh In On Plan To Replace Public Option In Health Bill
Can a spinoff of the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program help some of the country's uninsured? Experts evaluate a proposal that the Office of Personnel Management, which manages the FEHBP, oversee national health plans.
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Frustrated Workers And Employers Anxious For COBRA Extension
Some of the laid-off workers receiving government help to pay for their COBRA health coverage are seeing those subsidies run out. Congress has yet to vote on an extension and employers and workers are worried about the future.
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Ethicist Callahan: ‘Set Limits’ On Health Care
Renowned medical ethicist Dan Callahan confronts the rationing controversy head-on. He says Medicare should determine what benefits it will make available, based on costs and other considerations, and then simply not pay for those that don't pass their tests.
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Opinion Column
Ten Years Later: Look To Nurses As Champions of Patient Safety
Ten years ago this month, IOM's 'To Err Is Human' cast a spotlight on the role of the nurse in keeping patients safe, a role that will become even more important under the ongoing effort to reform the health care system.
By Mary Naylor and Mark Pauly, WCVE