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  • Checking In With Richard Umbdenstock

    As head of the American Hospital Association, Richard Umbdenstock has a daunting task: fending off billions of dollars in payment cuts to hospitals proposed by the Obama administration to help pay for a health care overhaul. Umbdenstock has been president and CEO of AHA, which represents 5,000 hospitals, since 2007. Before that, he headed Providence Health & Services, a large hospital system in Spokane, Wash. He talked to KFF Health News Correspondent Phil Galewitz.

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    Health Reform: The Reality Show

    The health care reform discussion is beginning-at last!-to get real. On June 9, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee released a draft bill, and the Congressional Budget Office published an estimate that the bill would cost $1 trillion over 10 years and leave 35 million uninsured.

    By Henry J. Aaron

  • Health Reform Debate Highlights Budget Agency’s Critical Role

    The Congressional Budget Office took center stage this week when its assessment of a health overhaul plan fueled criticism of its cost. Little known outside of Washington, the CBO is an arbiter of the cost and impact of legislation -- meaning it will continue to play a critical role in the health reform debate. Senate Finance Committee Democrats, meanwhile, vow to re-tool their as-yet-unreleased proposal to make it less costly.

    By Mary Agnes Carey and Eric Pianin

  • Kennedy Absent As His Health Bill Launches

    Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Wednesday becomes the first panel in Congress to formally start work on a bill to overhaul the nation's health system. But Kennedy, still undergoing treatment for brain cancer, won't be there in person to drop the gavel.

    By Julie Rovner, NPR News

  • Bartering For Health Care Rises

    When people in Floyd County, Va., visit Dr. Susan Osborne, they can pay for their medicals exam with vegetables, lessons, carpentry services as well as cash. Bartering is a way of life in the rural area, Dr. Osborne says: "It just gives people another avenue to have health care."

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  • Recession Drives More People to Barter For Health Care

    With many people strapped for cash, barter "exchanges" for health care is providing a temporary safety net of sorts for some workers who have lost their jobs and health coverage. And in some cases, people who have inadequate insurance are using barter to get critical services, such as dental and vision benefits.

    By Rochelle Sharpe

  • Checking In With Diana DeGette, D-Colo.

    As one of the House's chief deputy whips and vice chairwoman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado is helping map her party's strategy on health care legislation. Earlier this year, she pressed for an expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program. She talked with KFF Health News Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey.

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  • Checking In With Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

    Three decades before President Obama went to Chicago to speak to the American Medical Association, a Carter administration official delivered a similar message to the nation's physicians.

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  • Republicans Cite New Analysis In Attacking Senate Health Reform Bill

    A new analysis of a major Senate health reform bill reports it would cost the government $1 trillion but reduce the number of uninsured by a net of only 16 million. The estimates by the Congressional Budget Office provided Republican critics with fresh ammunition on a day when President Obama was defending his plan before a national audience of doctors.

    By Mary Agnes Carey and Eric Pianin

  • Video: Obama Speaks To AMA

    President Barack Obama urged doctors to support a health care overhaul when he spoke to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association today in Chicago. Video courtesy of C-SPAN.

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