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| Nov 19, 2008 |
Opinion: Universal Health Care Could Work This Time Around While some are advising President-elect Barack Obama to "stay far away from major health care legislation, lest he fail as miserably as Bill Clinton did when he famously tried for universal coverage back in 1994," columnist Jonathan Cohn writes in The New Republic that many circumstances have changed since then, making health care success a real possibility. |
| Nov 17, 2008 |
Struggling Small Businesses Face Skyrocketing Health Care Costs Small businesses that are already struggling amidst a weakening economy and a tightening credit market are now confronting massive increases in health insurance premiums, reports the Wall Street Journal. |
| Nov 15, 2008 |
Choice of Health Plans Shrinks for Many Employees With open enrollment for health care plans in full swing, employees are being given far fewer options this year, and many are being offered a "single take-it-or-leave-it option" of a high deductible plan that requires they spend more out of pocket, reports the New York Times. |
| Nov 14, 2008 |
Drugmakers Push Free-Market System in Face of Obama's Health Care Reform As the "first salvo in what likely will be a huge battle over health care reform during the Obama presidency," Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign that advocates for a free-market system in order to "undercut an expected push by the Obama administration for price controls of prescription drugs," reports the Washington Times. |
| Nov 13, 2008 |
Study Reveals Problems in Costs and Quality of American Health Care System "As President-elect Barack Obama and his allies work on plans to rein in health costs and extend insurance to more people," a study from the Commonwealth Fund shows that "chronically ill Americans are more likely to forgo medical care because of high costs or experience medical errors than patients in other affluent countries," reports Reuters. |