Hospitals could sign on to an agreement to help save up to $200 billion as part of the reform plan, sources tell Roll Call.
(Daily Report) Jun 24, 2009
"Perhaps the clearest sign yet of the unpredictable nature of… an ambitious [health care] policy overhaul is the approach that is suddenly starting to emerge on Capitol Hill as an alternative to a public plan — non-profit, consumer run health insurance cooperatives," Time reports.
(Daily Report) Jun 22, 2009
The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to reduce Medicare drug costs as part of health overhaul in an apparent effort to stave off potentially more-burdensome givebacks under the Democrats' health-overhaul plan. Today, President Barack Obama will make a formal announcement about the deal.
(Daily Report) Jun 22, 2009
Several news organizations had explainers on the health care debates.
(Daily Report) Jun 19, 2009
"This spring, 385 students graduated from Georgia's medical schools, but only two of them chose to remain in the state to pursue a family medicine residency," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
(Daily Report) Jun 19, 2009
Kaiser Health News examines Thursday's editorials and opinions.
(Daily Report) Jun 18, 2009
The up to $1.6 trillion price tag for one version of health care reform has left Democrats scrambling to find a way to rein in costs while not sacrificing the basic tenets of a plan they favor, The Washington Post reports.
(Daily Report) Jun 17, 2009
While President Barack Obama told the American Medical Association Monday that plans for a health care fix couldn't wait, it became clear that one of the major proposals for reform could cost $1 trillion over 10 years and leave tens of millions of people uninsured, The New York Times reports.
(Daily Report) Jun 16, 2009
The Congressional Budget Office has found that a top Senate health reform proposal would cost taxpayers about $1 trillion over the next decade and only insure 16 million people, about one-third of uninsured Americans.
(Daily Report) Jun 16, 2009
A group of 50 families will ask lawmakers this week to keep in mind 9 million uninsured children and many more who are underinsured when they undertake health reform this summer.
(Daily Report) Jun 16, 2009