Federal News
Pelosi Moves To Center On Public Health Option
Pelosi is shifting to the center on a government-run public health insurance plan, warming to a version that is being supported by some Blue Dog Democrats. [Read article]
Senator Eyes Health Co-Ops For All 50 States
The Senate Finance Committee voted down a measure for the federal government to offer its own insurance plan, the so-called public option. That same Senate panel is now offering an alternative - health insurance cooperatives. [Read article]
Seniors Worry As Medicare Advantage Is Threatened
For more than 40 million senior citizens, questions about plans to overhaul the nation's health care system come down to one word - Medicare. [Read article]
Senate Leaders Facing Crunch On Health Plans
The Senate Finance Committee planned to finish work on sweeping health care legislation early this morning and is expected to take a final vote next week. The next painstaking steps: merging that bill with an earlier version written by the late Senator Kennedy’s committee, then moving the combined package to the Senate floor. [Read article]
Senate Republicans Criticize Taxes in Health-Care Bill
Finance Committee's measure would break Obama campaign vow, they say. [Read article]
Frist Predicts Congress Will Approve a $1 Trillion Health Care Bill That Won't "Bend The Cost Curve"
Bill Frist, the former heart transplant surgeon and businessman, predicts that Congress will ultimately approve a $1 trillion health care reform plan that will expand insurance coverage to millions but do very little to "bend the cost curve" of the health care industry. [Read article]
Medicare Advantage Plans To Increase Premiums for Some - But Not All Seniors - in 2010
New information underscores the drastic differences in how seniors will be affected – depending on where they live - by federal funding cuts next year to private Medicare health plans known as Medicare Advantage. [Read article]
Mayo Clinic’s Chief Finds Health Care Debate ‘Heartbreaking’
The White House has often held out the Mayo Clinic as a model for health care. But the clinic’s chief executive says he is disgusted with the current machinations in Washington over how to overhaul the nation’s health care system. [Read article]
