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What The Debt Deal Means For Health Reform

August 8, 2011

From The Washington Post: 10:40 AM ET, 08/04/2011 By Sarah Kliff For a law regularly at the center of controversy, there was surprisingly little talk of the health care reform law during the debt ceiling debate. It certainly factored into some discussions — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reportedly pushed for the individual mandate’s repeal…

Advocates Take Health Care Fight To Main Street

August 4, 2011

From Politico: The reliance on grass-roots activists is part strategic and part financial. | AP Photo By MATT DOBIAS | 8/4/11 9:06 AM EDT As Washington’s health care advocates steel for another push by Congress to rein in entitlement spending, their focus is less on K Street and more on Main Street, where a patchwork…

Employers Expand Health Benefits Under ACA’s Reforms

August 3, 2011

From The Los Angeles Times: August 2, 2011 | 10:37 am Nearly 18 months after passage of the national healthcare overhaul, American employers say they are providing health benefits for growing numbers of people as they extend coverage to their workers’ adult children, a new survey finds. The federal healthcare law allows young adults up to age…

Attention: Health-Care Advocates!

August 3, 2011

An important message from our friends at Community Catalyst: Dear Partners: Thanks to the hard work of advocates across the country, Medicaid and Medicare were spared – at least in the short term – in the vote to raise the debt ceiling. Check out our brief analysis at Health Policy Hub. Your collective voices calling…

Fact-Checking A Right-Wing Video Exposé On Medicaid

August 3, 2011

From The Free Times: James O’Keefe/AP Photo By Porter Barron, Jr. Maybe you missed it. James O’Keefe — a protégé of conservative media provocateur Andrew Breitbart who has made news by surreptitiously filming outlandish stunts in which he and costumed associates attempt to “punk” perceived agents of liberalism — recently visited South Carolina. By sending…

Medicaid Helping My Daughter Achieve Her Dreams

August 2, 2011

From MomsRising.org: By Rylin Rodgers, Lebanon, Indiana Being Matthew (age 14) and Laura’s (age 11) mom has been a remarkably life-expanding experience. One of the unexpected bonuses was a crash course followed by endless emergence learning about health care financing. When I was pregnant with Matthew, my husband and I felt well-prepared to meet the…

Healthcare Reform Already Reveals Positive Effects

August 2, 2011

From Think Progress: By Igor Volsky— Jul 28, 2011 at 9:01 am A new report from the Medicare Office of the Actuary estimates that “health spending will grow by an average of 5.8 percent a year through 2020, compared to 5.7 percent without the health overhaul.” As a result, the nation is expected to spend…

Free Birth Control Rule Meets Harsh Criticism

August 1, 2011

From CBS News: (AP) August 1, 2011 8:43 AM The federal Department of Health and Human Services was to announce historic women’s healthcare guidelines Monday that would require insurance companies to cover women’s preventive services, including birth control, for what amounts to no cost. The guidelines, under the new healthcare law, would force insurance companies…

Supreme Court Will Rule On Healthcare Reform Act

August 1, 2011

From Business Insider: Abigail Caplovitz Field–Jul. 29, 2011 If the act is upheld as constitutional, federal regulations will transform the industry. For example, regulations will dictate how much of each premium can pay for overhead and profit, change insurers’ ability to decide what kind of coverage to offer, and who can purchase it. The stakes…

A Hazy Future For Medicare

August 1, 2011

From Politico: Democrats had been counting on  taking aim at Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan. By DAVID NATHER | 7/31/11 11:25 PM EDT President Barack Obama’s health care law has high negative ratings, and they’re not getting any better. But House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan has high negatives, too — and they’re not…

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