Health Reform in the House | Fact of the Day Without health insurance reform, the amount of uncompensated care provided will more than double in 45 states by 2019. | | Follow Health Insurance Reform
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At the Time This Daily Dose Was Sent, Insured Americans Had Paid a “Hidden Tax” of $45,608,646,133 since January 1, 2009 in Additional Premium Costs to Cover Care for the Uninsured. Under the Microscope REVISITING THE HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM DEBATE Following the Massachusetts election results last night, Democrats are looking at new ways to enact fiscally responsible health insurance reform that provides greater health care affordability, accessibility, and accountability to American families and businesses. Last night House Democrats held a Caucus meeting to discuss best ways to move forward and will meet again tomorrow morning. There is a determination to make affordable, quality health insurance available to all Americans as this one election doesn’t change the reality that millions of American families and businesses continue to struggle with skyrocketing health care costs, are subject to insurance industry practices that deny them needed care, or lack health insurance coverage altogether.
Health Care Headlines White House Admits Poor Job Of Selling the Health Bill
President Obama may have come up short in making his case to the American people for his sweeping health-care overhaul, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs acknowledged yesterday. [Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/2010] Obama Weighs Shift In Health Plan, Seeking G.O.P. Backing
With Democrats reeling from the Republican victory in the Massachusetts special Senate election, President Obama on Wednesday signaled that he might be willing to set aside his goal of achieving near-universal health coverage for all Americans in favor of a stripped-down measure with bipartisan support. [New York Times, 1/20/2010] Brown’s Win Forces Democrats to Recalibrate
Republican Scott Brown’s upset victory in Tuesday’s election for a Senate seat from Massachusetts deprives Senate Democrats of a filibuster-proof majority at an especially awkward moment and threatens to slow their legislative agenda before November’s midterm elections. [CQ Today, 1/19/2010] Business Is Booming For Big Drug Negotiators
If your health insurance covers prescriptions, you are probably a customer of a pharmacy benefit management company. [NPR, 1/20/2010] Stocks Rise on Speculation Health Overhaul Will Fail
Investors moved back into stocks on hopes that a special election in Massachusetts will take away power from Senate Democrats and make it harder for President Obama to make changes to health care.
[USA Today, 1/19/2010] OPINION: GOP Win Doesn’t Mean Health Reform Is Dead
By Steven Pearlstein
The biggest political issue in the country today is the Democrats' health-care reform proposal, which lives or dies based on whether it can attract 60 votes to overcome a Senate filibuster. [Washington Post, 1/20/2010] COMMENTARY: Centrist, and Yet Not Unified
By David Leonhardt
The bills before Congress are politically partisan and substantively bipartisan. [New York Times, 1/19/2010] COMMENTARY: White House Warns Against Dropping Health Care As Party Grows Skittish
By Sam Stein
Democratic officials were roiled by the news on Tuesday night that the supermajority they held in Congress, and the legislative possibilities that came with it, were lost with the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat. [Huffington Post, 1/20/2010] | 