Rolling Hills News and Responses

Tennessee Gov. Bredesen takes lead role in fight over health costs

As published by The Tennessean on August 18, 2009

State governors are fighting a plan to pass some health-care reform costs to the states, and Gov. Phil Bredesen is taking a point position.

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Lawmakers Scrutinized, But Signal A Possible Deal

As published by Kaiser Health News on Aug 10, 2009

Lawmakers are facing scrutiny from constituents over the August recess, but some signal they might be ready for a deal.

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Governors Fear Medicaid Costs in Health Plan

As published by NYTimes.Com on July 19, 2009

Democrats and Republicans are concerned about costly new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them.

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White House Less Firm on Date for Health Care Bill

As published by NYTimes.Com on July 19, 2009

A White House official appeared to soften on the administration’s insistence that a health care reform bill be delivered by August.

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CBO: Health Bill Adds to Deficit

As published by WSJ.com on July 18, 2009

House Democratic legislation overhauling the nation's health care system would add more than $230 billion to the federal budget deficit over the next ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

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Obama Says Health Plan Won’t Add to Deficit

As published by NYTimes.com on July 18, 2009

With Congressional Democrats growing increasingly nervous about the cost of overhauling the nation’s health care system, President Obama vowed Saturday to reject any health legislation that would run up the federal deficit.

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Obama: Congress must cut medical costs

As published by USAToday.com on July 18, 2009

President Obama says Congress should be required to adopt experts' recommendations for cutting U.S. health care costs.

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A Bad Day for ObamaCare

As published by Forbes.com on July 17, 2009

Is ObamaCare in trouble? President Barack Obama seems to think so. How else to explain the unusually forceful language and defensive tone of a late afternoon press conference at the White House Friday?

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Lawmakers Warned About Health Costs

As published by WashingtonPost.com on July 17, 2009

Congress's chief budget analyst delivered a devastating assessment yesterday of the health-care proposals drafted by congressional Democrats, fueling an insurrection among fiscal conservatives in the House and pushing negotiators in the Senate to redouble efforts to draw up a new plan that more effectively restrains federal spending.

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House committee OK’s health care bill

As published by USAToday.com on July 17, 2009

A second House committee has approved health care legislation that President Obama is seeking.

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Democrat: Obama slowing down progress on health care reform

As published by CNN.com on July 16, 2009

President Obama's opposition to taxing employer-provided health benefits has slowed progress on passing a health care reform bill, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee complained Thursday.

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Health Care Vote Illustrates Partisan Divide

As published by NYTimes.com on July 16, 2009

A party-line Senate committee vote on legislation to remake the nation’s health care system underscored

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Health care overhaul clears divided Senate committee

As published by CNN.Com on July 15, 2009

One of several proposals to overhaul the U.S. health care system passed a Senate committee Wednesday, with its ailing chairman praising the $600 billion plan as a step toward his longtime goals.

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How much health care for $1 trillion?

As published by USAToday.com on July 15, 2009

The White House and Democratic congressional leaders, scrambling to pass health care bills within the next few weeks, are trying to keep the cost of legislation that expands coverage and controls costs to about $1 trillion over 10 years — a benchmark for moderates in both parties.

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Small Business Faces Big Bite

As published by WSJ.com on July 15, 2009

House Democrats unveil sweeping health-care legislation that would hit all but the smallest businesses with a penalty equal to 8% of payroll if they fail to provide health insurance to workers.

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House Health Plan Outlines Higher Taxes on Rich

As published by NYTimes.com on July 14, 2009

A day after President Obama pressured Democratic leaders to speed work on his top domestic priority, three House committees announced plans to begin voting on the measure this week.

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What health care reform means for you

As published by Tennessean.com on July 13, 2009

As President Obama and Congress try to overhaul health care, almost every American has a stake. Will you get the care you need? Can you avoid financial ruin?

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Biden announces White House deal with hospitals

As published by USAToday.com on July 8, 2009

The nation's hospitals agreed Wednesday to forgo $155 billion in government health-care reimbursements over the next 10 years, savings the White House says will go toward paying for an overhaul of the nation's ailing health care system.

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Economic Scene: In Health Reform, a Cancer Offers an Acid Test

As published at NYTimes.com on July 7, 2009

The fundamental problem with America’s medical system is the mix of soaring costs and mediocre results.

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Health Deals Could Harbor Hidden Costs

As published at NYTimes.com on July 7, 2009

As the White House trumpets big agreements, what the industry groups will be getting in return is rarely discussed.

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President Obama talks to ABC about health reform

President Obama discusses designing a "uniquely American" health care plan.

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Health reform won’t cure the deficit

As published at CNNMoney.com on July 1, 2009

The promise of health reform is to make care more accessible for everybody -- and to reduce the federal deficit by slowing the growth rate in costs. But the promise of deficit reduction through health reform might be overstated.

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Obama health plan has slim majority support

As published at CNNPolitics.com on July 1, 2009

A new national poll suggests that a bare majority of Americans support President Obama's health care plan.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday morning indicates that most people worry that their health care costs would go up if the administration's proposals passed and only one in five thinks that his or her families would be better off under the Obama plan.

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