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Health On The Hill – November 19, 2009
Last night, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid unveiled a health care reform bill that he plans to soon bring to the Senate floor. The bill would cost an estimated $849 billion dollars over 10 years, and cover about 31 million uninsured. Mary Agnes Carey discusses the major provisions of the bill.
With Senate Health Bill, Reid Tries To Balance Many Interests
Majority Leader Harry Reid added new taxes and modified major provisions of health bills passed by two Senate panels in a health bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Doctors Fear Reform Angst Is Tainting Medicare Payment ‘Fix’
Physicians’ lobby says fixing the 12-year-old formula that sets Medicare payments would prove lawmakers’ commitment to reform health care.
Transcript: Health On The Hill – November 16
KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and other experts discuss recent and upcoming activities on the Hill — part of a weekly series of video reports.
Video: Health On The Hill – November 16, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., may unveil his health care overhaul plan this week. A podcast is also available. Read Transcript.
NPR’s ‘Tell Me More’: Abortion Debate Critical To Health Care Overhaul
NPR host Michel Martin interviewed KHN’s Julie Appleby about what the abortion amendment would mean.
Don’t Forget About The Other Determinants of Health
As we move to the endgame of what will at best be health care reform 1.0, it is also important to remember that if we want to improve health-presumably health care reform is a means to improving health-we need to focus on more than just health care and reform of the health care system.
Checking In With Dr. Donald Berwick,
KHN’s Phil Galewitz talks to Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School.
How The House Abortion Restrictions Would Work
Legislation approved by the House Saturday would bar insurers from selling policies that cover abortion if purchased with federal subsidies. There are already states that have similar policies.
On Hill, Bipartisan Support Emerging For Commission To Control Health Costs
The drive on Capitol Hill to create a bipartisan commission to help “bend the cost curve” of health spending is picking up momentum – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a handful of moderate Democrats and Republicans are supporting the effort.
Democrats Face Backlash Over House Abortion Limits
Outrage is growing among Democratic activists over new and far-reaching abortion restrictions contained in the health care bill passed by the House. Some warn that Democrats may face trouble at the polls in 2010 if the restrictions survive a final bill. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
Current ‘Death Panel’ Uproar Echoes Decades-Old Controversy
It was early summer. A senior federal health official wrote a memo suggesting that living wills — documents that can convey patients’ wishes about when to end life support — could help curb health-care costs.
The bill is enormously expensive, but it is full of perverse incentives
As House Democratic leaders celebrate passage of health care legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., continues to await a Congressional Budget Office analysis as he tries to craft a compromise package between bills passed by the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees. Read the Transcript
At the moment, Americans are not convinced that health reform will improve their current health care situation.
Transcript: Health On The Hill – November 9, 2009
As House Democratic leaders celebrate passage of health care legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., continues to await a Congressional Budget Office analysis as he tries to craft a compromise package between bills passed by the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.
Democrats Confront Challenges After House Reform Vote
Democrats get new momentum from House passage of a health care bill, but face new tests in bridging differences within the party — and between the chambers — on cost, financing and coverage.
Health policy experts hold different views on Saturday’s House overhaul vote. KHN asked Karen Pollitz, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Jonathan Cohn, Robert Laszewski, Robert Blendon and John Goodman to respond.
House Hands Health Care Challenge Off To Senate
Democrats are still savoring the the narrow passage of their historic heath care overhaul in the House of Representatives and turning their attention to the deeply divided Senate. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
Loading More People Onto the Titanic
Neither fiscal conservatives nor liberals are left with much reason to believe the House-passed bill has much chance of bending any cost curves.
