The AMA wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Dec. 1 concerning the Senate’s proposed health system reform bill. The bill—in the form of a substitute amendment to H.R. 3590, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”—represents a melding of previous proposals reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and [...]
“House Democrats Set Deal on Government Option ” The Wall Street Journal (10/29/2009)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125676119579814007.html
“IBM to Drop Co-Pay for Primary-Care Visits ” The Wall Street Journal (10/29/2009)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704222704574501641374551868.html
“Public it is: Don’t play name games on health-care reform” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (10/29/2009)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09302/1009100-192.stm
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Finance Committee Approves Health Reform Bill, Snowe Sides With Democrats
October 13, 2009
With the support of a lone Republican, the Senate Finance Committee today approved a $829 billion health care package that would assure that most Americans would have access to health [...]
Any reforms to the nation’s health system must be properly funded, increase efficiency, make coverage available and affordable, and provide care that’s based on expert consensus or evidence.
That is some of the guidance to be drawn from “The Eight Essential Principles of Health System Reform,” which were approved recently by the executive committee of the [...]
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