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Under the Microscope SPOTLIGHT: Health Insurance Consumer Protections
This morning in Raleigh, North Carolina, the President held a town hall on health insurance reform and honed in on 8 core insurance consumer protections that help define how this legislation will affect people directly. Thinking through the stories of frustration, anxiety, and even tragedy that people have lived and heard about regarding health insurance, you'll find that these new fundamental protections provide a profound change in how Americans experience health care.
[White House, 7/29/2009]
Read about THE SECURITY YOU GET from Health Insurance Reform. [White House, 7/29/09]
Obama Presses Health Agenda
President Barack Obama, just days before Congress's August recess, will head to North Carolina and Virginia Wednesday to press his health-care agenda, with a new emphasis on health insurance regulation and new details on the changes he is seeking. [Wall Street Journal, 7/29/2009]
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Health Care Headlines House Health Care Deal Reached, but Problems Loom
House leaders broke a logjam over their health care overhaul on Wednesday, reaching a deal with four Blue Dog Democrats to set the stage for clearing a bill out of the Energy and Commerce Committee, but not a floor vote, before the August recess. [Roll Call, 7/29/2009] Obama Defends Public Health Option
President Obama defended his push for a new public health insurance plan Tuesday, just as key senators were considering leaving it out of their health reform bill. [The Hill, 7/28/2009] Baucus Touts Lower Cost of Compromise Health Care Bill
As the House moved closer to agreement on its health bill, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus announced that a draft of the reform package he is negotiating with three Republican senators would come with a lower-than-expected price tag, less than $900 billion over 10 years.
[Washington Post, 7/29/2009] OPINION: Reform Is Within Reach
By Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)
America is on the threshold of history, with Congress set to deliver on comprehensive health care reform after 60 years of failed efforts. The hard economic facts show that the status quo is unsustainable and necessitates major changes. [Palm Beach Post, 7/24/2009] COMMENTARY: The Lessons of Success – Revisiting the Medicare Story
By James Morone, PhD and David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, now National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Each presidential election sends analysts searching for lessons that might be gleaned from past — and usually futile — presidential attempts at health care reform. In our view, however, contemporary analyses have focused too little attention on the most significant success in U.S. health care reform: the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. [New England Journal of Medicine, 11/27/2008]
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