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By LocalHealthGuide on July 17th, 2009

Obama argues that health reform cannot wait

Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, responds:

To contact your U.S. Senators and Representative click on the links below:

Senator Patty Murray
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Representative Jay Inslee (Ist District)
Representative Rick Larson (2nd District)
Representative Brian Baird (3rd District)
Representative Doc Hastings (4th District)
Representative Cathy McMorris (5th District)
Representative Norm Dicks (6th District)
Representative Jim McDermott (7th District)
Representative Dave Reichert (8th [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on July 16th, 2009

Health Overhaul Bills Move Forward On Capitol Hill

By Julie Rovner and Joe Neel, NPR News
July 16, 2009
This story comes from Kaiser Health News partner NPR
Efforts to remake the American health care system took a major step forward in the Senate on Wednesday. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee completed work on its health overhaul bill, which it passed 13-10 on a [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on July 15th, 2009

For Many Workers, Insurance Choices May be Limited

By Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby – Kaiser Health News
July 15, 2009
President Obama and leading Democrats have stressed that people who like their employer-sponsored insurance would be able to keep it, under a health care overhaul.
But they haven’t emphasized the flip side: That people who don’t like their coverage might have to keep it.
Under [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on July 15th, 2009

Single-payer advocates to meet tonight in Seattle

The Western Washington chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), which advocates a single-payer health-care system, will meet tonight at the Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill Campus to discuss the latest developments in the health-care reform debate in Washington, D.C.
Fifteen people will be able to participate in the meeting via the Internet.
To [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on July 09th, 2009

Health stories in the news

Regence BlueShield boosts premiums 17 percent
Regence BlueShield will raise premiums for 135,000 individual health-plan members in Washington by an average 17 percent on Aug. 1, Seattle Times health reporter Kyung Song writes in today’s paper.

“It is the third consecutive year that the state’s largest provider of individual coverage has boosted rates by double digits. And [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on July 07th, 2009

Health stories in the news – July 7th

New York Times profiles Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative
Opponents to a public health insurance plan are proposing private-sector insurance cooperatives as an alternative, and they are pointing to Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative as an example of what such cooperatives can accomplish, writes New York Times reporter Kevin Sack in today’s issue of the paper.
Group Health has [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on July 07th, 2009

True Believers: Selling a Single-Payer System, Despite a Lack of Buyers

By Rick Schmitt – Kaiser Health News
July 07, 2009
The YouTube video shows Donna Smith pulling on a white hazmat suit and protective rubber gloves. She is going to work, trying to clean up the nation’s health insurance industry.
Nurses rally in Washington on May 13th to demand better conditions for nurses as well as comprehensive health [...]

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Wal-Mart calls for employer mandate to expand coverage
By LocalHealthGuide on July 01st, 2009

Wal-Mart calls for employer mandate to expand coverage

Checking In With Wal-Mart’s David Tovar
By Jonathan Rau – Kaiser Health News
July 1, 2009
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, has endorsed a health care overhaul that includes a requirement that employers make some financial contribution toward the health care of their workers.
Yesterday, the Arkansas-based company released a letter (.pdf) to President Barack Obama [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on June 28th, 2009

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Health costs can bankrupt even those with insurance
Seattle Times Health Reporter Kyung Song tells the story of Mark Moody and Glenda Krull, an Edmonds couple struggling to cover their health care expenses even though they are middle class and have health insurance.
Moody’s case is complicated by the fact that he needs a second liver transplant, [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on June 26th, 2009

Health Reform’s Benefits for Middle Class Under Scrutiny

By Eric Pianin – Kaiser Health News
June 25, 2009
From the beginning, President Barack Obama and his top advisers have sought to portray health care reform not just as another costly entitlement for the poor, but as part of a larger effort to ease the burden of mounting medical costs for the middle class.
“The core [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on June 25th, 2009

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New York Times columnist hopes Obama “tunes out” the AMA
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof calls on President Barack Obama to tune out the American Medical Association, which is opposing a public health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.
Instead, he bids the president heed Dr. David Scheiner, what was Mr. Obama’s doctor [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on June 23rd, 2009

Reform must control costs, says Obama

In his June 23 press conference President Barack Obama said health-care reform must control costs and, while he endorsed a public health insurance plan, he did not say he would veto legislation that did not include a public plan.
“…we have not drawn lines in the sand, other than that reform has to control costs and [...]

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By LocalHealthGuide on June 23rd, 2009

Health reform debate in the papers

Seattle Times comes out for public-health insurance option
“Creation of a public-health-insurance option is central to the health-care reform debate underway in Congress,” the Seattle Times editors write in today’s issue. “Consumers need a competitive choice that is affordable, portable and fairly priced.”
To learn more:

Read the Seattle Times editorial: Include a public-health insurance option.
The Kaiser Family [...]

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