News by Topic: Health reform

News from the past 14 days. Please visit the News Archive for earlier stories.

Reid Says Senate Will Hold First Health Bill Vote on Saturday     Top Story 
Nov 20, 2009 -- Kaiser Health News reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will vote Saturday on a procedural move to begin debate on the Senate's health care reform bill.

Reid Releases Senate Health Reform Bill, Includes Tax on Wealthy Americans     Top Story 
Nov 19, 2009 -- Kaiser Health News article reports that Democratic leaders in the Senate unveiled their proposal on Wednesday for overhauling the health care system, outlining landmark legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the federal budget deficit.

Poll Finds Americans Think Disease Prevention Central to Health Reform     Top Story 
Nov 17, 2009 -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health have released a new poll showing that 71 percent of Americans favor an increased investment in disease prevention and that disease prevention is one of the most popular components of health reform.

"Better Ways to Pay for Health Care" Recommended by National Health Care Quality Coalition     Top Story 
Nov 16, 2009 -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation article discusses that as Congress and the Obama Administration search for ways to reform health care, a new report demonstrates that rationing and price controls are not the only ways to control health care costs.

Eagle Valley Tests Health Care Reform Model     Top Story 
Nov 16, 2009 -- Vail Daily, (CO) article tells of the Community Paramedics program where you take a resource that is already available in the community, link it with existing health care services and provide expanded patient care including treatment delivered directly to patients in their homes.

In Rural Kentucky, A Surprising Twist on the Health Debate     Top Story 
Nov 13, 2009 -- Kaiser Health News article reports that bad as most health measures appear in lower Appalachia, there are enduring models in places like Hazard that could prove instructive to rebuilding healthy communities across the nation, both rural and urban, according to Dr. Forest Callico, former director of the Appalachian Regional Hospitals and a rural health advisor to both the Clinton and second Bush administrations.

Secretary Sebelius Releases New Report on Health Insurance Reform and Diabetes in America
Nov 13, 2009 -- As the nation marks American Diabetes Month, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new report today, Preventing and Treating Diabetes: Health Insurance Reform and Diabetes in America.

Democrat Defectors from Rural Districts     Top Story 
Nov 9, 2009 -- Daily Yonder article reports that Congressional legislation to reshape the U.S. health insurance system, H.R. 3962, passed by a tiny five-vote margin late Saturday night, as 39 Democrats – most of them representing rural districts -- broke with the president and opposed the sweeping bill.

What a Rural Medical Co-op Could Be     Top Story 
Nov 9, 2009 -- Daily Yonder article tells of the Wilson Health Planning Cooperative, now forming in an 11-county region of western North Dakota, and how it is what Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota had in mind when he insisted that the health care reform bill in Congress contain provisions for medical co-ops?