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In Debate on Health, It’s Coverage vs. Cost – New York Times
As Democrats prepare to take up health care legislation on the floor of the Senate and the House, they are facing tough choices about two competing priorities. They want people to pay affordable prices for health insurance policies, but they want those policies to offer comprehensive health benefits.
Insurers Fight Bid to Ease Penalties in Health Bill – Wall Street Journal
Hospitals and insurance companies are pushing back against changes to the latest Senate health-care bill that ease the penalties for Americans who don’t carry health insurance.
To Be Effective, Exchanges Need Bargaining Power – Kaiser Health News/Jon Cohn
Ten years from now, if health care reform is a boondoggle, you might be able to trace that failure back to a decision in the wee hours of last week’s Senate Finance Committee hearings.
Obama Reaches Past Congress for Health Care Support - New York Times
Opening a new front in the effort to promote its plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system, the Obama administration is courting support from Republicans and independents some distance from Capitol Hill, and aggressively publicizing the results.
Vote on Key Health Bill Delayed for Cost Report - Washington Post
Senators learned Monday that a committee vote on health-care reform will be pushed back to later this week, and perhaps into next week, as they await an estimate on how much the overhaul would cost.
OPINION
The Public Imperative – New York Times
Back from another trip to Europe, this time Germany, where the same dismay as in France prevails over the U.S. health care debate. Europeans don’t get why Americans don’t agree that universal health coverage is a fundamental contract to which the citizens of any developed society have a right.
Health Care Action Week: Calling, Writing and Meeting with Congress – AFL-CIO
The health care reform fight rolls on this week on Capitol Hill and working families, local and state union activists and leaders are making sure Congress hears from those who aren’t singing from the health insurance industry’s hymnal.
(compiled for Health Care for America Now)
