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The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote today on the nomination of Sherry Glied to be the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. The President nominated Glied, …
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May 25 2010
S.C. budget cuts target health care programs for poor | McClatchy
Tags: a-new-round, cuts-aimed, eliminate-breast, limit-poor, must-deal, new-round, senate, week, women-andThe SC Senate must deal this week or next with a new round of House cuts aimed primarily at health care, which would eliminate breast cancer screenings for 16000 poor SC women and limit poor patients to three prescription drugs a month.
May 24 2010
Obama's New Health Rationer-in-Chief | FrumForum
Obama’s nomination of Harvard professor Dr. Donald Berwick, a proponent of rationing to cut health costs, to head Medicare and Medicaid could spark another fight in the Senate.
May 19 2010
This Week in Health Care Reform EasyToInsureME health insurance …
After months of public debate and private negotiations, health care reform discussions stalled following Tuesday’s Senate vote in Massachusetts. The Democratic Senate lost its 60th vote supermajority when Republican Scott Brown was …
May 19 2010
Health Insurance Reforms Easy To Insure Me Health Insurance Quotes …
Tags: builds-on-the, christmas, insurance-reform, monday, monday-february, obama, officials-unveiled, president-obama, proposal, senate, summit-, version-passed, white, white-housePresident Obama Releases New Health Care Proposal in Time for Health Summit: On Monday February 22, 2010, White House officials unveiled a new health insurance reform overhaul that builds on the Senate version passed last Christmas Eve, …
May 11 2010
Elena Kagan and Health Reform – Swampland – TIME.com
Tags: a-sneak-peak, constitutionality, during-elena, elena, may-reach, particularly-contentious, public-will, reach-the-supreme, reform-law, senate, sneak-peak, supreme, supreme-court, the-constitutionalityDuring Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearing, the American public will get a sneak peak of a particularly contentious case that may reach the Supreme Court – the constitutionality of the new health reform law.
April 29 2010
Lincoln Mitchell: Health Care, Financial Reform and Democratic …
Tags: brown, elections-now, january, kennedy, midterm, scott-brown, senate, seven-months, the-midterm, things-look, very-different, with-the-midtermWith the midterm elections now less than seven months away, things look very different now than they did in January when Republican Scott Brown was elected to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
April 26 2010
Arkansas group filing health care lawsuit against government …
Tags: big-steps, care-plan, get-insurance, group-are, insurance-or-pay, reverse-the, senate, taking-some, weekOne US Senate candidate and a citizens’ group are taking some big steps this week to try to reverse the health care plan.
April 26 2010
Budget update: Mental health and substance abuse cuts could create …
Tags: a-ban-on-, a-final-budget, are-closing, backing-off, ban-on-, budget-chiefs, cut-state, final-budget, salaries-and, senate, with-lawmakersHouse and Senate budget chiefs are closing in on a final budget, with lawmakers backing off a plan to cut state workers’ salaries and agreeing to a ban on.
April 25 2010
Health care law's unfinished business: cost curbs (AP) | www …
Tags: -care-bill, 849-billion, budget-office, congressional, democratic, has-estimated, office, official, senate, source-andThe non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the Senate health care bill would cost $849 billion over 10 years, according to a senior Democratic source and an administration official. …
