News tagged with care system
House eyes new taxes as senators pare health bill
Jun 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage, from wealthy Americans and the nation's employers to anyone who pops the top on a soft drink.
Senators dig in on massive health care legislation
Jun 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Eye-popping new cost estimates for President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system are forcing majority Democrats to scale back their plans to subsidize coverage for the uninsured.
Obama team plans more active role on health care
Jun 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The White House, backing away from President Barack Obama's "it's-all-on-the-table" approach initially advocated, prepared to get louder and more involved in the details of a health care overhaul ...
Kennedy bill would make employers provide care
Jun 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty - and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance - under a draft bill circulated Friday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's ...
GOP senators: Bipartisan health deal tougher now
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Republican senators say chances of reaching a bipartisan deal to overhaul health care dimmed after President Barack Obama issued a letter strongly supporting a new public health insurance plan.
Waiting times too long for bariatric surgery
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Obesity is now acknowledged as a chronic disease with a number of related complications, and its prevalence has reached alarming epidemic proportions. While bariatric surgery is effective at treating the disease, access to ...
White House frames health care as economic problem
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Senate chairman who will have a major role in writing health care legislation said Tuesday he hopes to convince President Barack Obama that taxing some employer-provided benefits will help control ...
Proposal would require all to have health coverage
May 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- House Democrats are crafting a plan that would require all Americans to carry health insurance and would help families making less than $88,000 pay the premiums. Employers, too, would have to help foot the bill.
Obama, Dems press unified message on health care
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The White House scrambled Wednesday to get Democrats behind a unified message of affordability and choice on health legislation amid concerns that Republicans could scare the public with images of ...
Tax health care to pay for health care?
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Most people with job-based health insurance don't think of their benefits as a form of income. But Uncle Sam might just change that.
7 of 10 women are uninsured or underinsured, or have medical bill, debt, access problems
May 11, 2009 |
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Women are more likely than men to feel the pinch of rising health costs and eroding health benefits, with about half (52%) of working-age women reporting problems accessing needed care because of costs, compared to 39 percent ...
Health care cost cuts could kick-start reform
May 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When President Bill Clinton took on health care reform, industry leaders fought back, killing the White House proposal before it could gain any traction.
Health groups offer $2 trillion in cost savings
May 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama's plan to provide medical insurance for all Americans took a big step toward becoming reality Sunday after leaders of the health care industry offered $2 trillion in spending ...
Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands
May 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.
Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans
May 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said Friday. Officials ...
