Health Reform in the House | Fact of the Day The new House health insurance reform bill will allow young adults up to age 27 to be covered under their parents’ health insurance plan. | | Follow Health Insurance Reform
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At The Time This Daily Dose Was Sent, Insured Americans Had Paid a “Hidden Tax” of $34,097,591,310 This Year In Additional Premium Costs To Cover Care For The Uninsured. Under the Microscope PAYGO and the “Doc Fix” The Senate has announced it will consider a permanent repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) or “Doc Fix” next week. Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer pledged in a letter earlier this year not to bring a SGR bill or conference report to the Floor unless PAYGO, which is supported by the White House, is enacted already or is attached to the legislation. The House looks forward to working with the Senate and the White House to enact both PAYGO and a “doc fix.” Video Campaign For Health Insurance Reform The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease has started a web-based campaign "Say 'Yes' to Health Reform," that features video testimonials of Americans from communities across the country who are "saying 'yes'" to comprehensive health reform that tackles issues of affordability, access and quality brought on by our nation's high rates of poorly prevented and mismanaged chronic disease - and "saying 'no'" to the status quo.
Health Care Headlines White House Team Joins Talks on Health Care Bill
A delegation of senior White House officials met on Wednesday at the Capitol with the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, and the chairmen of the Finance and health committees, as Democrats turned their full attention to merging competing versions of the comprehensive health care legislation. [New York Times, 10/15/2009] Hidden Costs of Medicare Advantage
Seniors in this Sun Belt retirement haven and across the country revel in the free perks that private insurance companies bundle with legally mandated benefits to entice people 65 and older to forgo traditional Medicare and sign up for private Medicare Advantage policies. The trouble is, the extra benefits are not exactly free; they are subsidized by the government. [Washington Post, 10/15/2009] Democrats Fire Back at Health Industry
Days after the insurance lobby began an aggressive campaign against a Senate plan to overhaul the nation's health-care system, senior Democrats fired back, threatening Wednesday to revoke the industry's long-standing antitrust exemption. [Washington Post, 10/15/2009] CNN Admits That On-Air Commentator Has Ties To Insurance Industry, Promises Full Disclosure
Looks like the insurance industry has another PR mess on its hands. [Plum Line, 10/14/2009] OPINION: Obama's Moment to Mold Health Reform
By David S. Broder
It has taken much longer than President Obama had hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can -- and must -- put his personal stamp on his main domestic initiative, the overhaul of the health-care system. [Washington Post, 10/15/2009] OPINION: The House That Private Insurance Built
By Ezra Klein
Following the old adage to never stop digging when you've created such a nice hole for yourself, AHIP is now touting a report (pdf) released by one of its member insurers: the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. [Washington Post, 10/14/2009] EDITORIAL: Reform and Your Premiums
After months of seeming mostly supportive of health care reform — and just before the Senate Finance Committee was set to vote on its bill — the leading industry trade group issued an inflammatory and utterly self-serving report alleging that the committee’s bill would drive up premium costs for Americans by thousands of additional dollars a year. [New York Times, 10/14/2009] | 