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Administration News - Obama Says Health Reform Must Be Done This Year
The opportunity to enact health care reform legislation could be missed unless Congress passes it this year, President Obama on Thursday said to thousands of supporters in a phone call made from Air Force One, the AP/USA Today reports. In a call to members of his political organization, Organizing for Americ
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2009-05-29

Capitol Hill Watch - Sen. Kennedy Circulates Draft of Health Reform Legislation
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is circulating an outline of health care overhaul legislation that includes a requirement that all individuals obtain coverage and requires contributions from employers, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, t
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2009-05-29

Coverage & Access - Massachusetts, Tennessee Health Plans Might Offer Ideas on U.S. Health Care System Overhaul
Congressional lawmakers who are crafting a plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system might be able to look to state health insurance programs in Massachusetts and Tennessee for ideas, the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Health reform legislation modeled after Massachusetts' near-universal health insu
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2009-05-29

Blog Watch - Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries
'Blog Watch' offers readers a roundup of health policy-related blog posts.Bloggers are tentatively reacting to a report and blog post released by the Congressional Budget Office that summarizes the agency's approach to estimating the cost of any health overhaul bills. At issue is how CBO will count different
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2009-05-29

Opinion - Health Reform Legislation To 'Build on What's Already Working and Fix What's Broken,' Sen. Kennedy Says in Opinion Piece
An increasing number of U.S. residents 'are on the outside looking in to a world of [medical] progress and discovery that is denied to them because they cannot afford quality health care,' Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) writes in a Boston Globe opinion p
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2009-05-28

Coverage & Access - Health Affairs Study Finds No Link Between Cost, Quality of Care
Quality of care is not linked to the cost of care, according to a study published last week on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs, CQ HealthBeat reports. For the study, researchers from Dartmouth College and Harvard University analyzed the health care bills of chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries i
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2009-05-27

Coverage & Access - 'Homework Assignment' Could Mean Success, Failure for Health Reform Legislation
How well health care industry groups follow through on their 'homework assignment' from President Obama to submit specific plans by early June on how they intend to reduce health care spending growth by $2 trillion over the next decade could determine whether current attempts to develop health care overhaul
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2009-05-26

Capitol Hill Watch - Lawmakers Prepare for Health Care Reform Action During Memorial Day Recess; Advocacy Groups Promote Reform Agendas
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have been given 'talking points' on health care reform to discuss with constituents during the Memorial Day recess as House and Senate committees work to develop comprehensive reform bills by mid-June, Politico reports (Budoff Brown, Politico, 5/26). According to The Hill,
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2009-05-26

State Watch - Connecticut House Approves Two Health Insurance Pooling Bills
The Connecticut House on Wednesday approved two separate measures to expand health insurance pooling in the state, the Hartford Courant reports. The first measure would create a public health insurance pool open to all residents. The pool, intended to compete with rather than replace private insurance, would
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2009-05-22

Capitol Hill Watch - Republicans Introduce Health Reform Plan That Would Provide Tax Credits To Purchase Health Coverage, Establish State Insurance Exchanges
Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Reps. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday introduced the Patients' Choice Act (S 1099, HR 2520), a counter proposal to Democratic health care reform plans that would create state-based health insurance
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2009-05-21