WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Potentially historic moves toward health care reform, the emergence of the pandemic H1N1 flu and controversial changes to cancer screening all made 2009 a very busy year for health news. [...more]
Text of President Barack Obama speaking Thursday about the Senate passing a health care reform bill, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. [...more]
Last week, the United States Senate voted 60-40 to end debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform bill that Congress has been crafting through most of 2009. Just before the Christmas holiday the Act was passed, and while heavy debate continues many individuals and organizations, such as Every Child [...] [...more]
WASHINGTON -- The Senate has passed it's version of the long awaited health care reform bill. [...more]
There is a middle-class tax time bomb ticking in the Senate’s version of President Obama’s effort to reform health care.The bill that passed the Senate with such fanfare on Christmas Eve would impose a confiscatory 40 percent excise tax on so-called Cadillac health plans, which are popularly viewed as over-the-top plans held only by the very wealthy. In fact, it’s a tax that in a few years will ... [...more]
Jeffrey Raval, MD, FACS, a Denver plastic surgeon, says the removal of the 5% tax on cosmetic procedures and elective surgery from the final Senate health care reform bill is a boon to the middle class. Contrary to Senate thinking that such a tax would target only the wealthy, Raval says most cosmetic patients are middle class wage earners trying to stay competitive in a job market obsessed with ... [...more]
Over the weekend South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, discussing the Christmas Eve health care reform deal, told CNN that President Obama's campaign slogan has become empty, replaced by the sleaze we locals call politics. “You know, change you can believe in,” Graham said on CNN's State of the Union , “after this health care bill debacle, [that] has now becoming an empty slogan. And it's ... [...more]
Following a 60-40 vote along party lines in the Senate to end debate on a contentious health-care reform bill, U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlining elements he sees lacking in the Senate version of the bill — such as a public option. [...more]
Text of President Barack Obama speaking Thursday about the Senate passing a health care reform bill, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. [...more]
Although House and Senate versions of the health care reform bill are weaker than they should be, the legislation making its way to President Barack Obama’s desk is far better than merely maintaining the status quo. [...more]
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