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At The Time This Daily Dose Was Sent the Hidden Health Tax On Insured Americans Was $30,887,839,544 Under the Microscope In the House this week, several Democratic Caucus meetings on reform gave members the opportunity to further talk about issues important to them. Those meetings will continue next week as is the work of combining the three committee versions of H.R. 3200. Yesterday in the Senate, lawmakers emerged from an “upbeat” Caucus meeting expressing confidence that health reform will pass this year. Senate Finance Committee members have until COB today to submit their amendments to the Chairman’s mark released on Wednesday. On Tuesday of next week, the long awaited markup begins. Health Insurance Reform: Something In It For Every Population The Daily Dose devoted a lot of space yesterday to how health insurance reform lowers health care costs for seniors and provides more access to care. Today there were several news items on how young people stand to benefit for reform. In tandem with a college health care rally the Administration released a report on Young Americans and Health Insurance Reform, which highlights how young adults often fall through the cracks in our health system, even those who are employed. For Young Americans, Health Insurance Is Often Elusive
President Obama took his health reform call to young people Thursday with a speech at the University of Maryland. Kwame Holman reports on the challenges faced by the more than 10 million Americans between the ages of 19 and 26 without health insurance. [Lehrer NewsHour, 9/17/2009] Obama Asks Youth To Spread Health Care Message
He told the largely student crowd that overhauling health insurance was one of the defining struggles of their generation. [NPR, 9/17/2009]
Health Care Headlines Obama To Speed Up Tort Reform Tests, But Doctors Want More
One day after physicians suffered a pair of setbacks in a health-care bill unveiled by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), President Obama moved Thursday to ease the pain by accelerating a $25 million program aimed at softening the pinch of medical malpractice lawsuits. [Washington Post, 9/18/2009] See the White House fact sheet on Patient Safety & Medical Liability Reform. Senate Democrats Exit Huddle Determined To Pass Health Care Reform
Senate Democrats emerged from a special caucus on health care Thursday determined to find the middle ground that would make them all comfortable enough to vote for a massive bill that lowers health care costs, expands government programs and introduces more competition into the insurance industry.
[Roll Call, 9/17/2009] Senate Finance Members See Baucus Bill As Unfinished Business
Now that Sen. Max Baucus’s health care overhaul has been released, Finance Committee lawmakers from both parties are figuring out how they might change it. [CQ Today, 9/17/2009] Read a related article. CBO Dismisses Co-Ops’ Relevance
The CBO confirms what liberal co-op critics have charged: That they will neither cover many people nor put downward pressure on costs, the two supposed benefits of the public option. [Politico, 9/17/2009] Senate Democrats Say Public Option Has Wide Support
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus might have released his all-important healthcare overhaul mark, but Senate Democrats Thursday made it clear a public option has majority support. [CongressDaily, 9/18/2009] Pelosi Renews Support For Public Option
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) renewed her support for a public insurance option on Thursday, one day after a key Senate chairman introduced legislation without one. [The Hill, 9/17/2009] Leading Health Analysts Implore Congress: Don’t Walk Away This Time
You could almost hear them groaning, “No, not again!” A group of leading analysts and health policy advisers, many of them veterans of the failed congressional overhaul debates of yore, implored lawmakers at a press briefing Thursday not to give up on revamping the system now that the going has gotten tough politically.
[CQ HealthBeat, 9/17/2009] COMMENTARY: Health Insurance the Self-Employed Can Afford
After bad experiences with other plans, she's created her own. The price is right, but it won't help her sleep easy at night. [L.A. Times, 9/21/2009] LETTER: The View From Your Sickbed
I just learned yesterday of the death of a friend’s 33 year-old daughter. She was married with two young daughters. [Atlantic, 9/18/2009] | 