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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009By Dean Baker, AlterNet
Posted on March 10, 2009, Printed on March 11, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/130887/
We all know that people have different ideologies about the proper role of government. Some people, who tend to be left of center, think that the government’s role is to try to promote the general good, by providing basic services, protecting the poor […]
Obama budget chief firm on Medicare Advantage cuts
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009By MATTHEW PERRONE
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget chief isn’t sugarcoating his message to health insurance executives: the party is over.
White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said Tuesday the government will no longer overpay companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run portion of the government health program for seniors.
For more than 10 […]
Fight Over Public Plan Option Dominates Ways and Means Hearing
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009By Rebecca Adams
The House Ways and Means Committee bickered along party lines in a Wednesday hearing about the need to create a public plan option for the uninsured in legislation to update the nation’s health care system. The debate underscored the controversy that continues to surround the public option proposal and the level of difficulty that […]
Massachusetts healthcare reform is failing us
Friday, March 6th, 2009Posted by Susanne King, MD on Tuesday, Mar 3, 2009
Originally published in the Boston Globe.
Massachusetts has been lauded for its healthcare reform, but the program is a failure. Created solely to achieve universal insurance coverage, the plan does not even begin to address the other essential components of a successful healthcare system.
What would such a […]
Senator Bacus and Single Payer
Friday, March 6th, 2009By GENE FENDERSON
Great Falls Tribune
January 5, 2009
In presenting his national health-care plan, “A Call to Action — Health Reform 2009,” Sen. Max Baucus said, “My door is open and I seek partners with ‘can-do’ spirits and open minds.’”
Earlier though, in the health-care forums he held around Montana, Sen. Baucus stated very strongly that a single-payer […]
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on single payer
Thursday, February 26th, 2009By Don McCanne, MD
Democracy Now!
February 25, 2009
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz
We get reaction to President Obama’s speech from Nobel economics laureate and former World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz.
Amy Goodman: And healthcare? He’s called for universal healthcare, but he does not call for single-payer healthcare.
Joseph Stiglitz: I think that there are some fundamental problems in […]
Memo to Obama: Seize the Moment for National Health Insurance
Thursday, February 26th, 2009By John Geyman, MD
Tikkun magazine
January-February 2009
First off, congratulations to you and your party on your sweeping election results!
Together with a sizable majority of Americans, I am again hopeful for the future of our country. My special concern, however, is for our failing health care system and how it is pricing health care beyond the reach […]
Renew Auto Industry? Start With Real Health Reform
Thursday, February 26th, 2009by John Nichols
The Nation blog
02/20/2009
General Motors, and what is left of Chrysler, are back asking for another government bailout. And Americans who recognize that an auto industry is a good deal more vital to the country’s future than those bankers who are using taxpayer billions to retrofit their executive washrooms will be inclined to sympathize […]
HHS Secretary Appoints Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo to the Advisory Committee on Minority Health
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Latinos for National Health Insurance
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Friday, November 21, 2008
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced today the appointment of Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH to serve on Advisory Committee on Minority Health. The committee, consisting of twelve members who serve for four years, will advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
New Medicaid Rules Allow States to Set Premiums and Higher Co-Payments
Thursday, November 27th, 2008November 27, 2008
New York Times
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — A new federal rule gives states sweeping authority to charge premiums and higher co-payments for doctors’ services, hospital care and prescription drugs provided to low-income people under Medicaid.
The rule, published Tuesday in the Federal Register, is expected to save money for the federal government and the states. […]
