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Senate Poised To Pass COBRA Subsidy Extension, Medicare ‘Doc Fix’
The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a jobs bill that would extend the COBRA subsidy program and Medicaid funding for states and prevent a Medicare reimbursement cut for doctors. The Associated Press: The bill “extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed through December. It would add $132 billion to the budget deficit over the next year and a half. …
Senate Test Vote Today On Bill To Extend COBRA Subsidy, Doc Fix And State Medicaid Funding
The Senate is poised to consider a measure today that would include extending subsidies for COBRA benefits and unemployment insurance, prevent the Medicare payment cut for doctors and provide additional funding to state Medicaid programs…
Obama Builds On Senate Health Bill In Hopes Of Broader Support
President Barack Obama’s health care proposal, an effort to resuscitate the debate, merges the separate legislation passed in the Senate and House “into a final version that could pass muster in both chambers,” The Washington Post reports. “Obama’s proposal takes the more modest Senate bill as his basic framework…
AMA Unhappy With Senate Plan For Medicare ‘Doc Fix’
The American Medical Association is criticizing “a Senate plan for avoiding a proposed 21 percent cut in government payments to physicians who treat the elderly, calling the proposal a ‘Band-Aid’ measure,” Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports…
Major Advance For California Healthcare Reform As Senate Passes Medicare For All Legislation
To ecstatic applause from healthcare advocates, the California Senate breathed new life into national prospects for fundamental health reform by passing on a 22 to 14 vote a major bill to guarantee healthcare in the state through creating a Medicare for all system that would cover every Californian. SB 810, The California Universal Healthcare Act, authored by Sen…
Pelosi Says House Could Pass Senate Bill Under Two-Track Approach
“Laying out a possible path to approving healthcare legislation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said Wednesday that the House should pass the Senate’s version and then use a process known as ‘budget reconciliation’ to make the changes some lawmakers are demanding,” The Los Angeles Times reports…
With Federal Health Bill Stalled, California Senate To Vote On Comprehensive, Medicare For All Healthcare Reform
With prospects for national healthcare reform dimming following Tuesday’s election in Massachusetts, a major bill that would establish universal healthcare, through a Medicare-for-all style reform, has been cleared today for a new vote in the California legislature. SB 810, The California Universal Healthcare Act, authored by Sen…
As Dems Look To Regroup, Pelosi Says House Will Not Pass Senate Reform Bill Without Changes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said Democrats in the House do not have enough votes to pass the Senate’s health care reform bill (HR 3590) in its current form, effectively removing that option from the table as party leadership weighs how to proceed with the legislation, Politico reports…
Multiple Issues Still On The Table In House-Senate Health Bill Negotiations
Reports explored contentious policies in the House and Senate versions of the health-overhaul legislation that are part of the final negotiations. The New York Times: One important – and until recently, rarely discussed – reform issue that splits Senate and House negotiators is states’ roles in implementing the health care overhaul…
Kohl Hails Senate Passage Of Health Reform Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of historic health care reform legislation: “With this bill, we will begin the process of cutting health care costs, while maintaining quality and expanding coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans…
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