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700 Taliban Killed In Escalation: The Morning News
The Latest on Air America —
... . It's hard to type "$2 trillion in savings" next to " health care industry wants to curb costs " without imagining the what that means for your average American with no health benefits. Whether or not it's fuzzy remains to be seen, but ...
Obama's Rx
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... will make remarks Monday after meeting with health care reform stakeholders in the Roosevelt Room. Will announce that industry leaders ...
Health Care: The Industry Steps Up. Maybe.
Swampland —
So what to make of the news that major players in the health care industry are vowing to "do our part" to rein in health costs as part of the Obama Administration's drive to get a major reform bill passed this year? The White House seems to think it is a great step forward. Yesterday, it held a background briefing to impress upon reporters the numbers we could be talking about here, if the industry actually reaches its stated goal of cutting costs by 1.5% a year: $2 trillion in savings over the next decade, which means the typical family of four would be spending $2,500 a year ...
Health insurance companies latest ploy on costs: If you liked Judy Miller, you'll love Ceci Connolly!
Corrente —
Yes, WaPo's got Cecily covering the health insurance companies' totally awesome and extremely trustworthy offer on "savings." (She's a piece of work.)
And her latest, at WaPo, here. Feel free to read before wrapping the fish with it.
Look, there's a basic test for the honesty and integrity -- and yes, the legitimacy -- of any press coverage, any hearing, any proposal, and any Presidential speech or presser on health care policy, and any policy process. It's very simple: Read more…
Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
TPMCafe —
... The industry is now proposing a scheme whereby it will curtail cost growth by 1.5 percentage points a year. At these point none of the details of the proposal are public and it is unlikely that any of the commitments in the proposal will be binding in any serious way on the industry. ...
Reagan Was Right: Trust But Verify
DownWithTyranny! —
... in lobbying since 1998 (second only to the banksters, who have also been ripping off the public at a phenomenally destructive rate with the connivance of Congress) and the $823,948,241 in direct contributions to federal candidates since 1990, explain a lot why the U.S. spends more on health care than any other country in the industrialized world and has one of the very worst health care delivery systems, leaving out countless millions of families entirely. And now they're volunteering to "do our part." ...
Health care reform takes an encouraging turn
Political Animal —
HEALTH CARE REFORM TAKES AN ENCOURAGING TURN.... When Senate leaders cleared the way for health care reform to pass through the reconciliation process, it made the prospects for passage a whole lot better. In about an hour, representatives of hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical industry will present a proposal to the White House that makes passage even more likely. Volunteering to "do our part" to tackle runaway health costs, leading groups in the health-care industry have offered to squeeze $2 trillion in savings from projected increases over the ...
Health care news: the "game changer"
Daily Kos —
... The headlines are abuzz with news of the "game changer" in health care: a voluntary pledge by industry groups to "do our part" and as the WaPo puts it, "squeeze $2 trillion in savings from projected increases over the next decade." ...
Obama Helps The Healthcare Industry Stack The Deck
Newshoggers.com —
... The big news for today is that the Obama administration, Dems on the Hill and the Healthcare Industry's fat cats have made a deal, with the latter offering to "squeeze $2 trillion in savings from projected increases over the next decade". The quid-pro-quo appears to be that single-payer won't be an option for healthcare reform under this administration. ...
The Health Care Industry's PR Scam: Will Obama Fall for It?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
In a much-anticipated statement today, Barack Obama announced what is largely a public relations end-run by the health care industry, designed to trim a few scraps off of the nation’s porcine health care budget, while preserving its basic system of medicine for profit.
In a letter to Obama that was released over the weekend, executives from the Advanced Medical Technology Association (the medical device manufacturers lobbying group), the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, as well as the Service Employees International Union, ...
Sheri and Allan Rivlin: Could Heath Care Reform's Success Bring Failure Again?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Without a doubt, it is good news that the major players in America's health delivery system have come together on a strategy to reduce the cost of health care by 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Millions of American families and businesses have been struggling to keep up with costs for health insurance that have been rising far faster than wages and prices in the rest of the economy. But is this announcement, made first by the White House, further evidence that the medicine, pharmaceutical, and health insurance industries, former opponents of changes to ...
The Health Care Industry's PR Scam: Will Obama Fall for It?
Commondreams.org Views —
In a much-anticipated statement [yesterday], Barack Obama announced what is largely a public relations end-run by the health care industry, designed to trim a few scraps off of the nation's porcine health care budget, while preserving its basic system of medicine for profit. In a letter to Obama that was released over the weekend, executives from the Advanced Medical Technology Association (the medical device manufacturers lobbying group), the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, as well as the Service Employees International Union, pledged to "do our part" to reduce ...
