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Could this bill, with its proposed expansion of an already unsustainable entitlement program, just be a way of softening up the opposition for what appears to be a bit tamer bill that is expected to emerge from the Senate Finance Committee?
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Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation has published a column that points out the stark differences between what experts believe and what the public believes about some of the key issues in health reform. Using data collected from numerous Kaiser polls, Altman points out that there is a wide gulf on [...]
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Time moves quickly inside the Beltway. It was just last week that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told a press briefing that Congressional leaders “will get to this a little later,” referencing the creation of any new government-run insurance program. Apparently “a little later” was yesterday when Senator Charles E. [...]
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The word coming out of Washington over the last few days dealing with healthcare reform legislation reminds me somewhat of the Jedi hand wave mind trick from the original 1977 Star Wars movie.
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For those of us who are trying to read the health reform tea leaves, things got a bit more interesting this week with signs of a rift in the Democratic Party over the “public plan.” First we had the chairmen of two Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care reform legislation (Baucus and Kennedy) say [...]
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Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House health reform office, is certainly getting her share of press today as healthcare writers try to unwind what she had to say during a forty minute discussion with reporters that was sponsored yesterday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. President Barack Obama’s top health care adviser said that work [...]
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Two bills were introduced this week in Congress that would change the tax code affecting health insurance, The Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2009 (S.702) sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow long-term care insurance to be offered under cafeteria plans and flexible spending [...]
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The New York Times and Reuters are reporting that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has emerged as President Barack Obama‘s top choice for health secretary. So what might this mean? Tom Daschle had written an entire book outlining his thoughts on healthcare reform. On the other hand, Sebelius has a record of eight years as Kansas [...]
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