Science Daily: U.S. Congressional Health-care Reform Proposals Would Offer Coverage To Many Without Insurance
With health reform high on the agenda of the incoming Congress and President, a new analysis of legislative proposals—including the plans of President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)—shows that several proposals already put forth could substantially reduce the number of uninsured Americans, and would either reduce health care spending or add only modestly to annual health care expenditures.
The proposals demonstrate that it is possible to cover everyone with little or no additional total health spending, but to do so means requiring that everyone have coverage, and achieving administrative savings and purchasing efficiencies by building on public programs and group purchase of private insurance—either through employers or insurance exchanges.
SEIU: Six Diverse Groups Unite in Nationwide Call for Health Care Reform as Key to Economic Reform
Washington, D.C. – Six organizations representing consumers, physicians, insurers, patients and pharmaceutical research companies are banding together to launch a new multi-million dollar national television advertising buy. Their common message: In order to fix the ailing economy, the nation needs health care reform that addresses the related problems of health care costs and people losing health coverage.
HCAN (Health Care for America Now): Richard Kirsch: “We’re going to have to be in our communities talking to people whether it’s by text message or phone or on the Internet but also in people’s faces, in the street demonstrating – everything it takes to make it clear to Congress and this country that it’s about time we all had good affordable health care.”
