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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 5/11/2009

Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find Savings

— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — This year’s effort to reform health care is the year of strange bedfellow coalitions. A number of... of industry-union-consumer group alliances like Better Health Care Together, Divided We Fail, The Health Care Dialogue and more, have already ... (more) Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find ...

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realclearpolitics.com - 5/15/2009

We Can't Afford a 'Public' Health Plan

— realclearpolitics.com — Does anybody really believe that adding 50 million people to the public health-care rolls will not cost... the government more money? About $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion more? At least. So let's be serious when evaluating President Obama's goal of ... (more) We Can't Afford a 'Public' Health Plan

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kaisernetwork.org - 5/11/2009

Coverage & Access | Health Industry Members Vow To Reduce Spending by $2T Over Next 10 Years; ...

— kaisernetwork.org — [May 11, 2009] Leading health care industry groups on Monday are expected to pledge to President Obama... that they will attempt to reduce $2 trillion in expected health care spending increases over the next 10 years, Obama administration officials said ... (more) Coverage & Access | Health Industry Members Vow To ...

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Health Care Deal In The Works?
The Atlantic Politics Channel — The White House just held an embargoed briefing for reporters about a new health care cost initiative that will be announced tomorrow. I'll respect the embargo, even though the Associated Press has got the basics of it in a dispatch: representatives from major health care stakeholders have agreed to a comprehensive, multi-faceted outline (still and outline) of $2 trillion in cost-reductions.   This is big -- and I'm not talking about the news. I'm talking about the dealmaking between unions, corporations, the health insurance companies and hospitals. And there all going to ...

New Trade Association Health Initiative in the Works
Daily Kos — ... The presence of the SEIU in the mix makes me somewhat less skeptical that a public option is going to be the sacrifice for bringing all these players together, but according to one report from an outside source at the AP, they are looking for a deal: ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for May 11, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... For a member of PNAC (remember they were the guys looking for a "new Pearl Harbor event" to wage war on Iraq) and the man who "fixed the intelligence" to wage war on Iraq to even suggest someone else is undermining national security is ludicrous!  Can't help but think if Forrest Gump could comment on Dick Cheney and his gang of just say NO Repuglicans, the comment would be EVIL is as EVIL does!!! * * * Once upon a time in America healthcare was a service, today it has become a business and as with all businesses the bottom line is more important than the product! Profit ...

Health Care Industry Letter Challenges The CBO To Find Savings
Wonk Room — ... The numbers are significant, impressive, but short on specifics for how industry will reduce costs. Early reports indicate that the signers — the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA) and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), among others — hope to contain costs by ...