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This frequently updated news digest on the subject of Health Reform highlights key articles from major journals and news publications. The digest is a free service of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. All rights reserved. Sign up to receive the digest free via e-mail.
| Feb 9, 2010 |
Republicans May Opt Out of Obama's Health-care Summit Washington Post, Michael Shear, 02/09/2010 Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they may decline to participate in President Obama's proposed health-care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over. |
| Feb 9, 2010 |
Bills Stalled, Hospitals Fear Rising Unpaid Care New York Times, Reed Abelson, 02/09/2010 For the nation’s hospitals, the cost of doing nothing in Washington translates into tens of billions of dollars each year in medical bills that go unpaid by patients with little or no insurance. |
| Feb 9, 2010 |
On Health Bill, G.O.P.'s Road Is a New Map New York Times, Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn, 02/09/2010 When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with no new federal mandates and only a modest expansion of the federal safety net. |
| Feb 9, 2010 |
No High Hopes for Health Care Summit Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown and Patrick O'Connor, 02/09/2010 Immediately after President Barack Obama announced a bipartisan health reform summit, Democrats and Republicans made clear they have almost no expectation the half-day meeting can break a bitter yearlong standoff. |
| Feb 8, 2010 |
Obama Asks GOP to Join Health Talks Wall Street Journal, Sudeep Reddy and Laura Meckler, 02/08/2010 President Barack Obama, seeking to give new momentum to his languishing health-care legislation, said he would sit down with Republican and Democratic lawmakers to exchange ideas on an issue that has deeply divided the parties. |
| Feb 8, 2010 |
Five Ideas for Getting Health Care Reform Back on Track USA Today, Editorial Board, 02/08/2010 None of the problems that made an overhaul of the health care system necessary has gone away. |
| Feb 7, 2010 |
Analysts: Stripping Health insurers' Antitrust Protection Won't Affect Consumers Much McClatchy Newspapers, David Lightman, 02/07/2010 The House of Representatives plans this week to vote on - and probably approve - a measure to strip health insurers' antitrust protections, which will be Congress' first step this year to try to overhaul the nation's health care system. |
| Feb 7, 2010 |
Obama Calls the Next Play for Health-Care Reform Washington Post Blog, Ezra Klein, 02/07/2010 By setting this summit, he's bought them a few weeks to figure out how to hold a vote themselves. |
| Feb 5, 2010 |
G.O.P. Senator Is Sworn In, and Democrats Regroup New York Times, Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny, 02/05/2010 President Obama and Congressional Democratic leaders sought to reset their agenda as they lost their 60th vote in the Senate on Thursday, trying to push ahead with measures to spur more job creation even as they grasped for ideas to keep alive their health care legislation. |
| Feb 5, 2010 |
Obama Maps a Way Forward for a Health Overhaul New York Times' Prescriptions Blog, David M. Herszenhorn, 02/05/2010 Speaking to enthusiastic supporters at a fund-raiser here, President Obama on Thursday evening presented his clearest plan yet to move forward with comprehensive health care legislation, saying that he wanted to meet with Democrats, Republicans and independent experts, lay out the facts for the American people and then, he said, “I think that we have got to move forward on a vote.” |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Al Franken Lays Into David Axelrod Over Health Care Bill Politico, Manu Raju and Andy Barr, 02/04/2010 Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo New York Times, Duff Wilson, 02/04/2010 With the possible demise of health care legislation, getting back to business as usual may not be the best thing for the nation’s drug makers. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
It's Just You, Democrats Washington Post (Blog), Ezra Klein, 02/04/2010 There's been a lot about procedural impediments to moving forward on health-care reform: Can the Senate can pass a reconciliation bill before the House passes the Senate bill? |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Report: Feds to Pay More than Half of Health Costs Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, 02/04/2010 For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Reconciliation is Not Representative (Opinion-Editorial) Politico, Sen. Judd Gregg, 02/04/2010 In a last-ditch effort to drag their bloated and unpopular $2.3 trillion health care reform package across the finish line, congressional Democrats, reeling from the loss of their 60th Senate seat, are reviewing their options to achieve this goal. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Sometimes, Health Reform Isn't About Health Reform The New Republic's The Treatment, Jonathon Cohn, 02/04/2010 The first problem for people who care about policy outcomes--regardless of which direction they care about those outcomes from--is that the Congress has developed an overwhelming bias toward inaction and the status quo. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
TVA Holds Lessons for Obama (Opinion-Editorial) USA Today, Diane McWhorter, 02/04/2010 As President Obama ponders the fate of health care reform, he would do well to review the mother-of-all-strife between government and private enterprise, the New Deal. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Ditching Health Reform will Only Dig Us into a Deeper Deficit (Opinion-Editorial) Washington Post, David S. Broder, 02/04/2010 The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
What Happens If Nothing Happens to Health Care? Wall Street Journal, David Wessel, 02/04/2010 A month ago, President Barack Obama was on the verge of a victory that eluded all his predecessors, as Congress neared approval of legislation to expand health-insurance coverage to nearly all Americans. |
| Feb 4, 2010 |
Obama suggests Republicans Could Have a Role in Health-Care Bill Washington Post,, Lori Montgomery, Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael A. Fletcher, 02/04/2010 President Obama urged congressional Democrats on Wednesday "to finish the job on health care," but amid tentative signs of bipartisan outreach on Capitol Hill, he suggested that Republicans could be enlisted to play at least some role in negotiating a final bill. |
| Feb 3, 2010 |
Health Official Can't Guarantee Openness in Talks New York Times, Robert Pear, 02/03/2010 Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, told Congress on Wednesday that she could not guarantee greater openness in negotiations over legislation to remake the nation's health care system. |
| Feb 3, 2010 |
Democrats Change Health-Care Tack Wall Street Journal, Janet Adamy and Patrick Yoest, 02/03/2010 With their sweeping health-care bill on hold, House Democrats plan to revive a sliver of the legislation as soon as next week that would repeal an antitrust exemption for insurance companies. |
| Feb 3, 2010 |
Nancy Pelosi Heads for a Two-Track Plan for Health Care Reform Politico, Patrick O'Connor and Carrie Budoff Brown, 02/03/2010 With the broader health care bill still perilously close to collapse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to take a shot at the health insurance industry next week by scheduling a vote on a smaller bill to revoke its half-century-old exemption from antitrust laws. |
| Feb 3, 2010 |
A Good Message Not Nearly As Important as a Fast Process Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein, 02/03/2010 No president, under any circumstances, can control the narrative around a piece of legislation when it's on the front pages every day for a year |
| Feb 3, 2010 |
The Debate Over Selling Insurance Across State Lines Kaiser Health News, Phil Galewitz, 02/03/2010 With health care legislation stalled, Republicans are touting their own remedies, including allowing Americans to buy health coverage across state lines. Currently, consumers can buy policies only from insurers licensed by the states in which they live. |
| Feb 2, 2010 |
Health Lobbyists Remain on Alert as Focus Shifts The Hill, Jeffrey Young, 02/02/2010 Lobbyists in the healthcare industry say they must remain vigilant even as their focus narrows and their profiles diminish with healthcare reform on the back burner. |
| Feb 2, 2010 |
States Restart Health-Care Push The Wall Street Journal, Anna Wilde Mathews, 02/02/2010 With the fate of a national health care overhaul unclear, state legislators are pushing their own bills aimed at expanding coverage, though tight budgets are likely to hinder many of these efforts. |
| Feb 2, 2010 |
Virginia Senate Bills Say No to Requiring Health Insurance The Washington Post, Rosalind S. Helderman, 02/02/2010 Virginia's Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the party's efforts in Washington to reform health care. |
| Feb 2, 2010 |
Obama's Struggle with Health-Care Reform Echoes Clintons' Failure in 1994 The Washington Post, Abigail Trafford, 02/02/2010 Obamacare in trouble? I've seen this story before. It may not end in the way the Clinton effort imploded in 1994. |
| Feb 2, 2010 |
States Cutting Back Special Programs For Uninsured Kaiser Health News, Julie Appleby, 02/02/2010 Sherie Brace fears the coming of summer. That’s when a special health insurance program for low-income adults in Washington state is set to close, ending coverage for her and about 65,000 others. |
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