Daily Health Care News - 7/27/09
Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in News Clips
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NEWS
Reach of Subsidies Is Critical Issue for Health Plan - New York Times
The major health care bills moving through Congress would require nearly all Americans to have health insurance. But as lawmakers struggle to achieve the goal of universal coverage, a critical question is whether the plans will be affordable to those who are currently uninsured.
Pelosi Vows Passage of Health-Care Overhaul - Washington Post
Defying skeptics in her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Sunday to overcome lingering obstacles and pass health-care reform in the House, restoring momentum to President Obama's top domestic priority and order to her own unruly Democratic caucus.
Sen. Grassley Continues His Incoherent Tweet-Streak - Media Matters
On July 24, 2009, Sen. Chuck Grassley tweeted: "PTL BluDogs Keep barkin Pelosie bill is Govt takeovr of healthCare Breaks Obama promise"keep what u hv" Puts Wash Burocrats in chrg MUSTSTOP."
Healthcare: 'Snail's' pace for a reason? - The Swamp
On the criticism that Congress is rushing into healthcare reform, President Barack Obama suggests that they've been working onit for eight months –since he made it clear after his election that he would pursue long-sought reform this year.
Opponents of health overhaul happy as bill drags - Associated Press
August means beaches and barbecues. And for some, a chance to rally the troops for this fall's health care showdown.
OPINION
Health Care Reform and You - New York Times
The health care reform bills moving through Congress look as though they would do a good job of providing coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. But what would they do for the far greater number of people who already have insurance? As President Obama noted in his news conference last week, many of them are wondering: “What’s in this for me? How does my family stand to benefit from health insurance reform?”
Public option needed to help small businesses - Tennessean
As a small-business owner, self-employed, having been denied insurance in the past, been without insurance for as long as six years, denied health care because I didn't have insurance, unable to purchase prescribed drugs because of the expense, and currently paying outrageous fees for insurance that will only cover catastrophic illness, the Tennessee Voices article, "Uninsured want single payer option," June 27, by Catherine Randall, reflected what I truly wanted in the way of health-care reform.
An Incoherent Truth - Paul Krugman
Right now the fate of health care reform seems to rest in the hands of relatively conservative Democrats — mainly members of the Blue Dog Coalition, created in 1995. And you might be tempted to say that President Obama needs to give those Democrats what they want.
The Ghosts of ClintonCare - Ezra Klein
Barack Obama's strategy to pass health-care reform seems based on a simple principle: Whatever Bill Clinton did, do the opposite.
More costs, less filling: health care coverage and the middle class - Health Populi
Middle-class Americans - those with incomes from $44,000 to $88,000 — face mounting out-of-pocket costs that are eroding household disposable income available for food, shelter, and energy line items.
Can health care bypass Energy & Commerce? - Congress Matters
A couple of articles in The Hill have hinted at the possibility that the Blue Dog roadblock in the Energy & Commerce committee may just have to be bypassed entirely.
CBO Admits (Very Quietly) That HR 3200 Will Reduce Costs - Change.org
Since I’m sure we’ll be greeted Monday morning with a chorus of opponents of reform citing the latest Congressional Budget Office pronouncement as proof that we should give up on health care reform, I thought I should call attention to the last two paragraphs of the document. Last week, many took CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s verbal testimony as proof that the current reform proposals in the House, the Senate and the White House would not appreciably reduce health care costs. What, I wonder, will they make of CBO’s new pronouncement that HR 3200 would “achieve tens of billions of dollars in Medicare savings each year”?
I've seen our Pres say in his own words how this plan would over time do away with private insurance, & then lie about it. I've also seen how the other countries on this plan are doing. Not so good. If you've got money, you come to America. If you don't you do without. If we go down this road there will be nowhere to go for good health care even if you have money. If you want to do something for the people fix medicare, & medicade. If you can figure that out, & fix it 1st. Then expand it to cover the low income families. You should do nothing to, or for the people who can afford health care, but don't want it. We are suspose to be free to choose in this country. I am low income. I'm on medicade now but may make enough money to lose it soon. I am also a dem, & vote. You may not believe this, but the people who vote for this will be unemployed soon.