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  • Obama Takes Case Against Health Insurers on the Road

    Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 00:28 | Comments Off

    President Obama was back on the campaign trail Monday, using his election-style oratory to stump for a health-care overhaul that still awaits an uncertain fate in Congress.

    As is the case routinely these days, the president took aim at health insurers. He lambasted them 22 times in a speech to a college audience near Philadelphia, according to the Washington Post. “How much higher do premiums have to rise until we do something about it,” Obama said in the speech punchline.

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  • Obama’s New Health Care Proposal

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 07:35 | Comments Off

    President Obama outlines his three-part proposal for health care reform in an address at the White House. Courtesy Fox News.

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  • Obama Outlines Health-Care Proposal

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 07:35 | Comments Off

    President Obama outlines his three-part proposal for health-care reform in an address at the White House. Courtesy Fox News.

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  • AM Report: Health Battle Lines Drawn

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 00:30 | Comments Off

    President Obama will speak today on the state of the health reform bill, as Republicans and some Democrats continue to oppose it, John Bussey tells the News Hub panel.

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  • Health Overhaul From Here: Bypassing the Supermajority

    Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 01:29 | Comments Off

    To hear some Democrats tell it over the weekend, the health-care overhaul has already passed Congress, leaving just some procedural matters to wrap up before the changes begin.

    “Health-care reform has already passed both the House and the Senate with not only a majority in the Senate but a supermajority. And we’re not talking about changing any rules here,” White House adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle says in the Washington Post this morning.

    The House and Senate passed different bills, however, so the problem ..read more

  • The Obama Plan, Day 2: Pay for Delay, Biologics, CBO Score

    Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 02:37 | Comments Off

    As the dust settles on the White House announcement yesterday of its health-care overhaul, here are some further details worthy of note in the proposal:

    Pay for delay would go away. The Federal Trade Commission would get power to block deals where a generic maker delays bringing a cheaper copycat drug to market in return for something of value from the branded maker. CEOs of branded pharma companies also would be required to certify to the accuracy of any of any ..read more

  • Survey: Employers Fret Over Workers’ Poor Health Habits

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 09:10 | Comments Off

    As Washington dissects President Obama’s health-care plan and both parties prepare to grapple with health woes at Thursday’s summit, employers are saying their biggest cost problem lies at home.

    Workers’ poor health habits were cited by 67% of companies as a top challenge to maintaining affordable benefit coverage in a new survey by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health. The next highest challenge, cited by 41%, was a tie between “high-cost catastrophic cases and end-of-life care” and ..read more

  • News Hub: Is Obamacare Deal Possible Now?

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 08:52 | Comments Off

    President Obama plans to carry a proposal — an attempt to bridge differences between bills passed by the House and Senate last year — into a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday. WSJ’s Janet Adamy discusses the latest in Obamacare.

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  • News Hub: Prospects for Obama’s Health Proposal

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 08:52 | Comments Off

    President Obama plans to carry a proposal — an attempt to bridge differences between bills passed by the House and Senate last year — into a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday. WSJ’s Janet Adamy discusses the latest.

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  • What Obama Wants in the Health-Care Overhaul

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 04:21 | Comments Off

    President Obama has juggled the health-overhaul plans approved by the House and the Senate and added some twists of his own to come up with a White House proposal he hopes can win enough support for passage in both chambers.

    The Obama plan is crafted mainly from the Senate-passed bill, but not entirely. Here are some of the big points in the proposal, as posted on the White House Web site:

    The plan’s cost is pegged at $950 billion over a decade — ..read more