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Washington Update: Iglehart 
Narrowly Clearing the Next Hurdle — Passage of the House Reform Bill(0)
John K. Iglehart
With Democrats wielding their sizable majority to fend off strong Republican opposition and survive the defection of 39 members of their own party, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 215 to approve health care reform legislation after a day of contentious debate. On November 7, as midnight drew near, 219 House [...]
Compromises and Controversies — Moving Forward on Reform
John K. Iglehart
Accelerating progress toward the Democrats’ goal of enacting health care reform legislation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) unveiled a bill on October 29 that would establish a mandate for most legal U.S. residents to obtain health insurance. The bill would extend coverage to some 36 million people, and according to the Congressional Budget [...]
Reform and the Health Care Workforce — Current Capacity, Future Demand
John K. Iglehart
As Democrats press to enact health care reform legislation, they have emphasized their commitment to greatly expanding coverage, slowing the growth of medical spending, and more tightly regulating private insurers, if not also creating a competing public insurance option. But among the major questions that their policy prescription leaves unanswered is, How would [...]
Baucus’s Bill and the Long Road to Reform
John K. Iglehart
In an effort to attract Republican support, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, stripped his health care reform proposal of some of its most contentious elements — the creation of a public insurance option, the imposition of an employer mandate, and the provision of physician payments for counseling Medicare [...]
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