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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.
| Nov 20, 2009 |
Culture Clash in Medicine New York Times, Kevin Sack, 11/20/2009 This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American medical consumerism: that more is better, that saving a life is worth any sacrifice, that health care is a birthright. |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
A Consumers' Guide To The Health Reform Bills Kaiser Health News, Julie Appleby, Mary Agnes Carey, Phil Galewitz & Jordan Rau, 11/20/2009 The health care overhaul debate in Congress now centers on two bills: the House measure and the Senate Democrats' version unveiled Wednesday. They differ in important ways. Here are answers to questions you may have about the bills: |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
House OKs $210 Billion to Help Out Doctors Associated Press, Erica Werner, 11/20/2009 The Democrat-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff. |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
Reid Pushes For Votes on Health-care Bill Washington Post, Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray, 11/20/2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid worked Thursday to nail down the votes needed to move to a final debate on health-care legislation, but a tepid assessment of the public insurance plan he crafted emerged as the latest potential obstacle to the passage of the far-reaching changes. |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
Married Couples Face Extra Tax in Senate Health Care Bill Washington Times, Stephen Dinan and David M. Dickson, 11/20/2009 Senate Democrats' health care bill would create a new marriage penalty by imposing a tax on individuals who make $200,000 annually but hitting married couples making just $50,000 more. |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
Democrats Woo Voters With New Benefits Wall Street Journal, Greg Hitt and Naftali Bendavid, 11/20/2009 Senate Democrats touted the immediate benefits their health bill would bring to some Americans, aware that the cost and reach of the bill may already be turning off some voters ahead of the 2010 elections. |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
San Francisco's Health Care A Model During Debate Associated Press, Juliana Barbassa, 11/20/2009 This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. |
| Nov 20, 2009 |
Who's Afraid to Debate Health Reform? New York Times, Editorial, 11/20/2009 The health-reform legislation unveiled Wednesday night deserves to be considered on the Senate floor. |
| Nov 19, 2009 |
Reid Uncertain of Tally as Health Bill Heads for Rare Saturday Vote The Hill, Jeffrey Young, 11/19/2009 The Senate is headed for a rare Saturday vote to advance its major healthcare reform bill without a guarantee of success, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated Thursday. |
| Nov 19, 2009 |
Wrong Side of History New York Times Op-Ed, Nicholas D. Kristof, 11/19/2009 Critics storm that health care reform is “a cruel hoax and a delusion.” Ads in 100 newspapers thunder that reform would mean “the beginning of socialized medicine.” |
| Nov 19, 2009 |
Rising Prices of Drugs Lead to Call for Inquiry New York Times, Duff Wilson, 11/19/2009 Democrats in Congress asked for two separate investigations of drug industry pricing Wednesday as they continue working on legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system. |
| Nov 19, 2009 |
CBO: Senate's Public Option Would Enroll 3 or 4 Million People Wall Street Journal's Health Blog, Jacob Goldstein, 11/19/2009 The CBO says three or four million people would enroll in the new, government-backed insurance plan created by the Senate health-care bill. |
| Nov 19, 2009 |
Senate Health Plan Seeks to Add Coverage to 31 Million New York Times, Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn, 11/19/2009 Democratic leaders in the Senate on Wednesday unveiled their proposal for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the federal budget deficit. |
| Nov 19, 2009 |
AP Poll: Support for Curbs on Malpractice Lawsuits Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Trevor Tompson, 11/19/2009 Most Americans want Congress to deal with malpractice lawsuits driving up the cost of medical care, says an Associated Press poll. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
White House Backs Bill Supported by Doctors' Group Reuters, Donna Smith, 11/18/2009 The White House on Wednesday urged Congress to pass a bill to boost Medicare payments to doctors, a step that could shore up support from an influential doctors' lobbying group for a broad healthcare overhaul. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Health Overhaul Sparks Debate on Future of CHIP NPR, Mary Agnes Carey, 11/18/2009 One of the staunchest backers of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Sen. Jay Rockefeller isn’t ready to see it swallowed up by a new health insurance marketplace designed by Congress. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
The Consequences of 'No' New England Journal of Medicine, Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. and Lawrence S. Lewin, M.B.A., 11/18/2009 In the next few weeks, Congress will determine the fate of health care reform. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Price Tag for the Senate Bill: $849 Billion New York Times, David M. Herszenhorn, 11/18/2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is meeting with fellow Democrats to brief them on his version of major health reform legislation, which a senior Democratic leadership aide said would cost an estimated $849 billion over 10 years while reducing future federal deficits by $127 billion and covering 94 percent of Ameircans. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Senate Democrats Unveil Health Care Bill At Last Reuters, 11/18/2009 After weeks of closed-door negotiations, U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid plans to unveil broad healthcare reform legislation on Wednesday with a first test vote on the package possible by the weekend. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
The Individual Mandate Is Too Good of a Deal, Not Too Bad of One Washington Post Opinion, Ezra Klein, 11/18/2009 "While the eventual health care legislation is likely to be a boondoggle, it at least holds out the hope of partially remedying the present system’s worst injustice," writes Ross Douthat on his new blog. Moments later, however, Ross goes on the attack against the individual mandate. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Germany Strains to Fund Health Care for All Wall Street Journal, Vanessa Fuhrmans, 11/18/2009 Germany's century-old universal health-care system, a model cited by reform advocates in the U.S. Congress, is buckling under the weight of a growing deficit that has forced the government to explore an overhaul. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Senate Weighs Long-Term Care Program Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, 11/18/2009 Senate health care legislation expected this week is likely to include a new long-term care insurance program to help the elderly and the disabled avoid going into nursing homes, Democratic officials say. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Mammography Outcry Points to Trouble for Healthcare Reform Los Angeles Times, Noam N. Levey, 11/18/2009 A core tenet of the healthcare overhaul President Obama is pushing through Congress is that medical care can be improved -- and costs contained -- if the country relies more on experts to determine which procedures and treatments work best. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Coverage Mandate Under Fire Wall Street Journal, Naftali Bendavid, 11/18/2009 Conservatives have opened a new front in the health-care debate with the assertion that under the Democrats' plan, people who refuse to buy health insurance could spend five years in prison. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
Three Democrats Could Block Health Bill in Senate New York Times, Carl Hulse, 11/18/2009 Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, says he is not sure he is ready to help a Democratic health care proposal clear even the most preliminary hurdle: gaining the 60 votes his party’s leaders need to open debate on the measure later this week. |
| Nov 18, 2009 |
AP Poll: Gov't Health Plan Divides Public Associated Press, Erica Werner, 11/18/2009 Tell Americans that letting the government sell insurance in competition with private industry would be cheaper for them, and a majority is in favor. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Poll: Prevention Ranks High on Americans? Health Agenda The Hill, Jeffrey Levi (Opinion-Editorial), 11/17/2009 On Friday, we at the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released a new public opinion poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that found that the disease prevention and public health aspects of health reform are among the most popular proposals on the table. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Study: Injured Uninsured More Likely to Die in ER Associated Press, Carla K. Johnson, 11/17/2009 Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new study. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Test Vote May Come Before Holiday Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown, 11/17/2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has yet to introduce a health care reform bill, but he is still aiming to schedule a key test vote by the end of the week, Senate aides said Monday. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
AP POLL: Tax the rich to pay for health bill Associated Press, Erica Werner, 11/17/2009 When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Deep Divisions Linger On Health Care Washington Post, Dan Balz and Jon Cohen, 11/17/2009 But poll finds support for key provisions of reform effort. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Business Foes Of Health Care Revamp Ramp Up Effort Associated Press, Alan Fram, 11/17/2009 Business foes of health care overhaul legislation are outspending supporters at a rate of 2-to-1 for TV ads as they grow increasingly nervous over a final bill. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
White House Healthcare Accord With Drug Industry May Be Going Sour Los Angeles Times, Noam N. Levey and Tom Hamburger, 11/17/2009 Legislation passed by the House challenges the deal that pharmaceutical companies made with the Obama administration. They're prepared to make a stand in the Senate. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Capital in Suspense as Budget Director Crunches Numbers New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, 11/17/2009 Most people have never heard of Douglas W. Elmendorf. But all of official Washington is waiting to hear what he has to say. |
| Nov 17, 2009 |
Limited Effect Seen in Abortion Clause Wall Street Journal, Stephanie Simon, 11/17/2009 Restrictions on abortion coverage approved in the House version of the health-care bill likely will affect the affordability of the procedure for only a small minority of women. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
AP Poll: Fine Print in Health Care Prompts Worries Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar & Trevor Tompson, 11/16/2009 What's it going to cost me? Americans are worried about the fine print in the health care overhaul, an Associated Press poll says, and those concerns are creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to overcome doubts in Congress. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
Health Reform's Hidden Land Mines Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown and Chris Frates, 11/16/2009 After all the controversy over the public option, people might think that everyone can sign up right away if Congress passes health reform. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
Health Bill Foes Solicit Funds for Economic Study Washington Post, Michael D. Shear, 11/16/2009 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an assortment of national business groups opposed to President Obama's health-care reform effort are collecting money to finance an economic study that could be used to portray the legislation as a job killer and threat to the nation's economy, according to an e-mail solicitation from a top Chamber official. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform New York Times, Duff Wilson, 11/16/2009 Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
Healthcare Bills Could Jeopardize States' Consumer Protection Laws Los Angeles Times, Lisa Girion, 11/16/2009 Opening the door for insurers to sell policies across state lines could allow health plans to avoid tougher requirements in places like California. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
The Rationing Commission Wall Street Journal, Editorial, 11/16/2009 Meet the unelected body that will dictate future medical decisions. |
| Nov 16, 2009 |
House Health Bill Includes Medicaid Relief For States Washington Post, Aaron C. Davis, 11/16/2009 Expansion of coverage would come with $23.5 billion in aid. |
| Nov 15, 2009 |
In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists' New York Times, Robert Pear, 11/15/2009 In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident. |
| Nov 15, 2009 |
Reform and Medical Costs New York Times Opinion, 11/15/2009 Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums. |
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