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President Obama’s budget proposal today lays out how he will come up with the $634 billion over the next decade to begin getting all Americans much-need health coverage. And next week, he'll gather health care experts and other stakeholders to begin laying out specific proposals for a health reform plan, with recommendations expected in 30 days. Read more »
The Washington Post this afternoon announced that tomorrow's budget will include a $634 billion dollar 10-year fund to expand health care coverage. Read more »
Last night, Obama firmly said we need health care reform within the year, and promised that Thursday's budget will include some of the funding for it. Read more »
Fear of losing what we have. In America, that fear has kept us from fixing our broken health-care system. Opponents nurture that fear by arguing that if we insure more Americans, those of us already with coverage will be much worse off. But the respected National Academy of Sciences own Institute of Medicine (IOM) blew holes in that boogeyman with the release today of its latest report on the uninsured. Read more »
Elizabeth from New York City got wrapped up in the twisted world of usual, customary and reasonable charges when she decided to go out-of-network for better medical care. She planned to pay the $2,000 maximum out-of-pocket fee but ended up with a $12,000 bill finding herself in one of the many cracks of our broken health care system. Read more »
A little-noticed Congressional health reform hearing on February 4th offers some hope that small business groups are ready to move further to meet health reform advocates than perhaps they did during health care reform in the 1990's. Read more »
Last night, lawmakers in the House and Senate announced an agreement on the stimulus bill that includes $1.1 billion for research comparing the effectiveness of different treatments for disease. Read more »
The final version of the stimulus bill will help laid-off workers pay for a nine-month extension of their COBRA health insurance. Read more »
We get far too much of our information about medical treatments straight from the drug companies -- and so do our doctors. Thankfully, there's money in the stimulus package to fight the onslaught of drug reps and TV ads with real science. Read more »
Laid-off and unemployed Americans will get real help affording health coverage under the economic stimulus plan. The question is, just how much help. Read more »
It didn’t garner nearly the media attention as Tom Daschle’s departure as HHS nominee, but Washington this week just helped 4 million more low-income kids get health care. Read more »
More concern over the proposed mega-merger of drug giants Pfizer and Wyeth and the anticipated end result for consumers: Higher drug prices and fewer breakthrough medicines. Read more »
The recently announced merger of drug giants Pfizer and Wyeth is another great argument for funding independent, unbiased research to help doctors and patients know which drugs and treatments work best – rather than who has the cleverest commercials and marketing slogans. Read more »
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