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Congress [in its health reform bills] is effectively making private insurers unnecessary, yet continuing to insist that we can’t do without them. The truth is that we could do just fine without them: an insurance system with community …
Posts Tagged ‘reform-bills’
March 3 2010
Healthcare Economist · Health Insurance Subsidies (a.k.a Higher …
Tags: affordable, currently-propose, government, insurance-provided, insurance-subsidies, reform-bills, the-government, these-subsidiesThe health reform bills currently propose introduce health insurance subsidies for individuals who do not qualify for health insurance provided by the government. The goal of these subsidies is to make health insurance more affordable …
March 2 2010
Matthew Yglesias » The Next Frontier in Health Reform
Tags: are-the, bill, congress-take, little, reform-bills, tentative-steps, these-issues, toward-provider-side, way-tooThe health reform bills in congress take a whole bunch of tentative steps toward provider-side reform. But if this bill passes, we’ll find that these issues are the next frontier in health reform. Simply put, there’s way too little …
February 25 2010
Eight Health Care Lobbyists For Each Member Of Congress
Tags: companies-and, each-member, eight-for, forms-shows, public, public-integrity, reform-bills, senateA Center for Public Integrity analysis of Senate lobbying disclosure forms shows that more than 1750 companies and organizations hired about 4525 lobbyists — eight for each member of Congress — to influence health reform bills in …
January 27 2010
Consumer Reports Health Blog: Health-care reform: Why not ban pre …
Tags: accept-all, congressional, insurance-companies, most, part, popular-components, reform-bills, the-most, the-partSo it’s no surprise that one of the most popular components of the Congressional health -reform bills is the part that says insurance companies would have to accept all comers regardless of pre-existing conditions. So popular, in fact, …
January 9 2010
Shea-Porter goes rogue on health reform : Now! Hampshire
Tags: a-back-down, back-down, carol-shea-, down-on-the, excise, president-barack, reform-bills, the-excise, the-final, vote-forHarry Reid and President Barack Obama back down on the excise tax in the health reform bills being merged in a secret conference committee, Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter will not vote for the final bill. …
