Transcript: President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting On Health Care
The White House provided a transcript of President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting on health care today at Southwest High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Opinion Column
Use Medicare To Hold Industry To Cost And Quality Promises
Affordable health care for everyone is too important for policy makers to sit back and wait for the health care industry to cut costs and improve quality. The industry needs a push, in the form of a little financial pressure. Medicare is the mechanism through which the federal government has leverage to increase the pace of change in the U.S. health care system.
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Opinion Column
Solving the Political Paradox of Health Care Reform
After decades of effort, the enactment of universal health insurance coverage is actually in sight.
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Labor Leaders Wary As Democratic Allies Weigh Health Reform Proposals
Labor leaders are worried as congressional Democrats weigh various health care overhaul proposals. Unions oppose taxation of employee benefits and want a strong public insurance plan to compete with private insurers, but some Democrats say they’re open to compromises on both issues to attract Republicans and fiscal conservatives in their own party. Unions have pledged to spend $80 million in their campaign to influence legislation.
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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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Minority Women More Likely Than White Women To Have Major Health Problems
Women of color in America are 11 times more likely than their white counterparts to contract AIDS, according to a study released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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President Courts Fiscal Conservatives In Reform Push
President Obama is promising fiscal conservatives in Congress that health reform won’t be financed by deficit spending. He needs the support of moderate and conservative Democrats who are wary of a vast expansion of government-underwritten health care. Strict new budget rules may help persuade skeptics that a health care system overhaul is affordable.
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New Yorker Article Sparks Strong Reaction
Surgeon and author Atul Gawande’s recent article in The New Yorker is generating intense discussion about the cost of medicine and exerting a powerful influence over the health reform debate.
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HELP Committee Postpones Day Of Reckoning
Senate Democrats release health care bill leaving out–for the moment–two of the most contentious items, while promising more talks with Republicans. Meanwhile, in the House, chairmen of three committees brief fellow Democrats on the contours of their bill.
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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.
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War Of Words On Health Reform
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.
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DeParle, Sebelius: Time To Tackle Health Care Disparities
Officials said Tuesday that the time is now to tackle ethnic, economic and gender disparities in health care as they ready a major overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
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Baucus: Comp Effectiveness Will Be In Health Reform Bill
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus says the bill soon to come out of his committee will include comparative effectiveness requirements.
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Lawmakers Pick Up Pace on Health Legislation
House and Senate Democrats are gearing up for what could be a crucial, month-long drive to craft health care legislation before the July 4 recess.
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Health On The Hill — June 8, 2009
Kaiser Health News’ Mary Agnes Carey discusses recent and upcoming activities on the Hill — part of a weekly series of video reports.
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Health On The Hill — May 29, 2009
Kaiser Health News’ Mary Agnes Carey discusses upcoming and recent activities on Capitol Hill.
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The Risks And Rewards Of Taxing Health Benefits
Taxing employee health benefits might fund a health care overhaul, but could sink its political chances.
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Opinion Column
Health Care Reform or Just Expensive Entitlement Expansion?
While we desperately need a sustainable health care reform in America to cover all of our people, Congress getting ready to send the president little more than a health care entitlement expansion that will give us a health care system even more unsustainable then the one we now have.
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How Congress Might Tax Your Health Benefits
Lawmakers are considering varied approaches to taxing employer-provided health insurance as a means of paying for an overhaul of the health system, Kaiser Health News reports. Proposals include taxing benefits above a certain premium amount, taxing the benefits only of high-income earners, or combining both approaches.
