kaisernetwork.org - 1/14/2009
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[Jan 14, 2009] The House on Wednesday is expected to pass legislation (HR 2) reauthorizing and expanding SCHIP to cover an additional 4.1 million children, the Washington Post reports. The measure, which will cost an estimated $33 billion, would extend the program for four-and-one-half years and ...
kaisernetwork.org - 1/12/2009
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[Jan 12, 2009] House lawmakers say they will
vote on Wednesday or Thursday on a stand-alone SCHIP...
expansion that will provide Democrats on Capitol Hill "an early session victory" and give President-elect Barack Obama "a high profile bill" to sign into ...
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Capitol Hill Watch | Lawmakers Set To Vote on SCHIP ...
newsbusters.org - 1/22/2009
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I doubt it would surprise anyone here that
the media would go to their best lengths to...
over-estimate the number of people at Obama's inauguration. But just how far out on a limb would they go to portray his mandate? Try at least a million people. ...
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Obama's Million Ghost March
editorandpublisher.com - 1/21/2009
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Names Two New Managing Editors By Joe Strupp Published: January 13, 2009 10:00 AM ET NEW YORK The Washington Post named Elizabeth Spayd and Raju Narisetti as ...
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SCHIP Passes The House
Daily Kos —
... Next steps: The Senate, passage, signing the bills. However, one issue still on the table is the Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act (ICHIA). It's in the House bill, and could be included in the Senate bill, eliminating the current five year waiting period for legally residing immigrant children, or it could come up in committee to reconcile the two bills (more here from Kaiser on the two versions.) School-based clinics might be included in the reimbursement as well (a good thing, since for many poor kids, it is a main source of health care.) ...
Congress Takes-On Physician-Owned Hosptials In SCHIP Bill
Wonk Room —
A little-noticed provision in the House’s version of the SCHIP expansion bill prohibits the construction of physician-owned specialty hospitals, or “focused factories” that specialize in lucrative cardiac, orthopedic, or surgical services.
The restrictions would prohibit new physician-owned hospitals from opening and limit the expansion of existing hospitals. “In order to expand, the facilities would be required to receive approval from the HHS secretary,” Kaiser reports.
Without missing a beat, Physician Hospitals of America, the trade group for physician-owned specialty ...
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