Until now, the Senate’s health reform debate has been largely partisan, with Republicans blasting the various reform bills as a step toward socialized medicine, and Democrats, despite some criticism, firing back that the GOP is merely protecting the insurance industry at the expense of patients. Ideologically driven arguments, both. And More…
It’s no news that the Obama administration has pushed hard for the creation of a public-plan option to accompany whatever health care reform overhaul the Democrats come up with this year. But Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, has just softened that stand. More…
The nation’s largest health care industries — including the doctors, hospitals, insurers and drug makers — made headlines earlier this week when, after a pow-wow at the White House, President Obama claimed that those industries had volunteered to trim $2 trillion in projected health care costs over the next More…
A few big announcements from the Obama administration on the health care front today: Confirming reports over the weekend that he was set to do so, President Obama officially named Kansas’ Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his nominee for secretary of health and human services. You may More…
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