President Obama’s Health Insurance BillPresident Obama Releases New HealthCare Proposal in Time for Health Summit:On Monday February 22, 2010, WhiteHouse officials unveiled a new health insurance reform overhaul thatbuilds onthe Senate version passed last Christmas Eve, with some changes aimedatpleasing House Democrats who had concerns with the Senate bill. ThePresident’sproposal [...]
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MARCH 26, 2010This Week in Health Care Reform Healthcare reform legislation passed the House this week on a party-linevote. LateSunday night, House Democrats approved the Senate health care reformpackage,sending the legislation to President Obama for his signature. OnTuesday,President Obama signed the underlying bill into law, yet the House hasyet tofinalize [...]
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For many companies the ability to provide group health insurance totheiremployees is a huge benefit that hard workers will truly value especiallyifthey have a family to take care of at home. However sometimes the taskofsetting up a group health insurance program can be difficult for many newandsmaller companies. Fortunately a group [...]
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FederalAlthough the House vote to repeal health care reform issymboliconly (given the Democratic Senate and White House), it is a necessaryfirst stepleading to committee by committee action over the coming months ondiscreteprovisions of health care. One such item,medical malpractice liabilityreform, got a hearing last week before the HouseJudiciary Committee asRepublicans paraded several [...]
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States with Republican governors kept up the pressure last week onWashingtonto give the states greater control over health care under thePatient Protectionand Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Twenty-one Republicangovernors sent a letterto Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary KathleenSebelius asking forgreater authority over some provisions of health reform,including the abilityto define [...]
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