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Obama's budget sidesteps dramatic health reforms
The Obama administration's latest spending plan calls for modest changes to the US healthcare system but does little to incorporate sweeping moves called for Democrats' larger plan to increase access and cuts costs.
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Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo
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.
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Factbox: Republican healthcare reform proposals
U.S. President Barack Obama has asked Republicans to bring their best ideas on healthcare reform to a televised bipartisan meeting later this month that Democrats hope will help restart the stalled healthcare overhaul drive.
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Key Senate Democrats push for health care public option
The fight over health care reform burst back into public view Tuesday as four Democratic senators asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to hold a vote on a government-run public insurance option.
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Public Option: Everything You Need to Know
A scant month or two ago, the controversial “public option” proposal of the health care reform debate seemed almost dead after it was rejected by the Senate Finance Committee. But because the proposal gained new life after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a favorable analysis of it and opinion polls showed strong public support for it, a government-run plan was included in the House bill that passed on November 7. While liberal Democrats argue that a public plan would provide affordable coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and help to spur competition, Republicans and some moderate Democrats contend that it could drive private plans out of business, and lead to a government takeover of health care.
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Detailed Summary of Affordable Health Care for America Act
A detailed summary of affordable health care (PDF format).
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Small Group Now Leads Closed Negotiations on Health-Care Bill
(Washington Post) Three months before he was elected president, Barack Obama vowed not only to reform health care but also to pass the legislation in an unprecedented way.
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Gov. Bredesen enters health-care fray
(The Tennessean) Breaking ranks with Democratic Party, he says costly plan hurts states.
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FACTBOX: Details of Baucus plan for healthcare reform
(Reuters) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus on Wednesday released his long-awaited proposal to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
The Baucus plan -- with a price tag of $856 billion over 10 years -- calls for sweeping insurance market reforms and payment system changes, as well as requirements for all citizens and legal residents to buy insurance.
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The Obama Plan: Stability & Security for all Americans
"It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government."
- President Barack Obama
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Baucus SFC Draft Health Reform Summary
This document constitutes a framework of a plan for consideration by the Bipartisan Six. The policies outlined here represent many of the policies discussed with Finance Committee members and described in previous options papers. In addition, the policies also reflect the group's conversations and the group's work throughout the summer, including throughout the August recess. Chairman Baucus proposes this framework for consideration and response by the next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 8,2009.
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Why Chuck Grassley Turned on Health-Care Reform
If there had ever been any hope for a truly bipartisan health-care bill this year, it came in the person of one cantankerous and quirky Iowan. For months, much to the consternation of many of his fellow Republicans, Charles Grassley, the ranking minority member on the Senate Finance Committee, had continued to negotiate behind closed doors with chairman Max Baucus and four other members of the panel. No Republican received more TLC from Barack Obama, who has met with Grassley three times at the White House and called him three times more just to keep in touch.
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President to focus on health care specifics, Biden says
Vice President Joe Biden promised Thursday that President Obama will delve into specifics when he tackles health-care reform in a highly anticipated speech to a joint session of Congress next week.
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RAND Analysis Finds Certain Health Reform Policy Options Would Significantly Reduce Number of Uninsured Americans
New analysis from the RAND Corporation shows that a mandate requiring individuals to obtain health insurance -- an option in various current legislative proposals -- would increase the number of Americans with coverage by 9 million to 34 million, while a mandate requiring employers to offer insurance would boost the figure by 1.8 million to 3.4 million.
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Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals
This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Included in this side-by-side are proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the President and Members of Congress. In an effort to capture the most important proposals, we have included those that have been formally introduced as legislation as well as those that have been offered as draft proposals or as policy options.
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