White House still optimistic about healthcare reform bill
The Obama administration is maintaining that a bill will be passed by the end of the year.
Arguing over President Obama’s healthcare reform plan
President Obama’s healthcare reform plan, still majorly in the works, is drawing comments from the R’s and D’s as much as ever.
PA Health Care Assoc: Cuts won’t buy better care
Stuart H. Shapiro, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, has an opinion piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer in which he applauds President Obama’s move toward health care reform but denounces the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid which will help fund the effort.
House Health Plan Outlines Higher Taxes on Rich
House Democratic leaders took a big step toward guaranteeing health insurance for most Americans on Tuesday as they unveiled a bill that detailed how they would expand coverage, slow the growth of Medicare, raise taxes on high-income people and penalize employers who do not provide health benefits to their workers, according to the New York Times.
U.S. House & Senate Dems still can’t agree on how to fund healthcare reform
The House is proposing an income tax increase on the wealthiest Americans, but the Senate is saying “forget about it.”
An update on national healthcare reform efforts
All the latest, courtesy of Kaiser Network News.
PA doctors speak on national healthcare reform
About 50 physicians, hospital administrators and other health care providers attended a forum in Montgomery County, to discuss input for a plan to meet President Obama’s goal of universal healthcare.
Bill giving FDA regulation over tobacco products is just baby steps away from becoming law
The Senate passed the tobacco bill yesterday, and its likely the House will send it right to President Obama, who pledges to sign it.
What the health insurance industry won’t budge on for healthcare reform
The industry has promised to work with the Obama administration to make changes to their business practices. But one issue they’re balking at is lowering costs for small businesses.
“Big, small or nothing at all?” Kaiser ponders possibilities for healthcare reform
Kaiser Health News offers three scenarios on how they say healthcare reform in 2009 might turn out.