The House approves a health care reform bill, but Democrats splinter over an abortion provision. The bill receives support from the American Medical Association, but some surgeons’ groups beg to differ. And physicians of all specialties await a Congressional fix to the Medicare SGR formula.
It’s all in this week’s Policy & Practice podcast. Take a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘health insurance’
November 10, 2009
Coalitions Splinter: The Policy & Practice Podcast
July 14, 2009
Coburn: If It’s Good for the Goose…
From the Senate HELP Committee health reform mark-up, Senate Caucus Room, Russell bldg.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) got me to thinking about a 1985 tune (“What’s Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander, Too”) by Bobby Rush. Sen. Coburn offered up an amendment to require every member of Congress to get his or her health insurance [...]
April 1, 2009
History Repeats Itself
From the National Association of Health Underwriters Capitol Conference in Washington:
When the late President Harry S Truman tried to get a single-payer health care system passed into law six decades ago, he was opposed by a variety of interest groups, including the American Medical Association, which warned that a single-payer system was the equivalent of [...]
