Posts Tagged ‘Insurance Coverage’
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Holiday Blog
This has been quite a year. We have watched a sometimes torturous process unfold in Washington that while it may not have delighted health policy purists, promises to be the most substantial effort this country has made in a century to join the other industrialized countries on our planet in trying to extend Health Insurance coverage to a majority of our citizens.
Since the howls from the right that we have “gone way too far” seem to be balanced from the screams from the left that we have “barely done anything of value” my intuition before even reading all 2,000 pages is that we have done what we most often do as a democracy…we have found a middle that moves us towards a laudable goal.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Health Reform Continues to Move Forward
By Lisa Kaplan Howe, NH Voices for Health
Federal health reform took an important step forward last week as the final Congressional committee of jurisdiction – the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) – began considering health reform legislation. Like the Senate HELP bill and the tri-committee House bill, the SFC bill makes critical reforms to our health care system – making coverage more accessible, affordable, stable and higher quality; driving efficiency, quality and equality in our health care system; and strengthening our health care workforce. Maybe most importantly of all, however, with this last piece of the puzzle falling into place, the legislative process can continue moving forward toward the ultimate goal – health reform this year.
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