*Healthcare Issues
In U.S., 15 Percent Lack Health Insurance: Survey
Jun 18th
REUTERS Victoria Will (L) has her blood pressure checked by nurse practitioner Sapana Patel during a routine physical in New York in this March 22, 2010 file photo. Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson (Reuters) – More than 15 percent of Americans lacked health insurance in 2009, a slight but insignificant rise from 2008, according to U.S. government [...]
Implementing Reform
Jun 9th
The Progress Report Implementing Reform Yesterday, President Obama sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, “launching a defense of his presidency’s biggest accomplishment” as the government prepared to release “the first batch of $250 checks to seniors who fall into Medicare’s prescription drug coverage gap, known as the ‘doughnut hole.’” “Each month, as [...]
Digitize medical records; waiting puts lives at risk
May 7th
GLOBE EDITORIAL May 7, 2010 WHEN IT COMES to switching from paper to electronic records, medicine trails many other professions — even though study after study has shown that computerization will save not just money but lives. Even with the incentive of billions of federal dollars to cover much of the cost of the transition, [...]
When Siblings Step Up
Mar 28th
Sisters and brothers are finding new ways to circumvent old conflicts as they take on one of the toughest roles in their lives: caregiver By ANN TERGESEN WALL STREET JOURNAL March 27 2010 When Rene Talavera’s father, Jesus Talavera, 69, was hospitalized for kidney and heart failure last fall, the 45-year-old Chicago resident and his [...]
Now, a war for public opinion
Mar 24th
SCOT LEHIGH
By Scot Lehigh
March 24, 2010
DEMOCRATS WERE euphoric as President Obama signed the nation’s new health care law yesterday, and with good reason. As Vice President Joe Biden was caught whispering to his boss, “This is a big f***ing deal.’’
Yes indeed. The United States is finally on its way to near universal health coverage. And [...]
President To Sign Historic Reform Bill
Mar 23rd
thinkprogress.org
HEALTH CARE
President To Sign Historic Reform Bill — At 11:15 a.m. today at the White House, President Obama signed into law the landmark health care reform legislation that passed the House of Representatives on Sunday night. Today’s ceremony included “members of Congress, doctors and nurses and ordinary Americans who will benefit from the bill.” Though [...]
The health-care vote: One more step on a long, slow journey
Mar 23rd
By Richard Cohen
washpost.com
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Mitch McConnell is right. The Republican Senate leader, a man whose vision is to deny others theirs, told the New York Times that President Obama’s health-care proposal was part of an attempt to “turn us into a Western European country,” which, the good Lord willing, is what will now happen. [...]
Yes, they made history
Mar 22nd
Yes, they made history
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks after a meeting of the Democratic Caucus on Sunday. (Lauren Victoria Burke/associated Press)
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Yes, we did.
Finally, President Obama can use those words. The passage of health-care reform provided the first piece of incontestable evidence that Washington has changed.
Congress is, indeed, capable [...]
Republican lawmakers stir up the ‘tea party’ crowd
Mar 22nd
washingtonpost.com
By Dana Milbank
Monday, March 22, 2010
The Democrats were blamed for many horrible things — tyranny! socialism! corruption! — as they marched toward Sunday night’s passage of health-care legislation, but nobody ever accused them of making health reform look easy.
It all began 14 long months ago, when Ted Kennedy was still alive and everybody, Republicans and [...]
House passes health-care reform bill without Republican votes
Mar 22nd
By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 22, 2010
House Democrats scored a historic victory in the century-long battle to reform the nation’s health-care system late Sunday night, winning final approval of legislation that expands coverage to 32 million people and attempts to contain spiraling costs.
Obama to sign health-care bill into law [...]
