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Senate committee holds health care reform hearing
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mt.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are holding the second of three conversations on…
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Sebelius confirmed as HHS leader
The Senate approved Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services today. Some…
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Debate roils over effectiveness, ‘rationing’
The Kansas Health Institute’s Dave Ranney attempts to illuminate and explain the fears that research into the comparative effectiveness of…
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Blog breaks down Wyden’s talk, plan (#ahcj09)
AHCJ board member Ivan Oransky blogged about Sen. Ron Wyden’s talk at Health Journalism 2009 on April 17. Wyden’s Healthy…
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Moon on Medicare reform, supplmental insurance
As part of her Excluded Voices series in the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…
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Obama announces Office of Health Policy
President Barack Obama has, by executive order, established an Office of Health Policy in the White House, with a parallel…
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Today’s Health Policy forum in LA to be webcast
The fifth White House Regional Forum on Health Policy, this time in Los Angeles, is scheduled to begin at 10:30…
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Where does Baucus stand on public insurance?
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, tries to pin down exactly where Montana…
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Loophole in industry proposal for universal coverage
Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus points out that while, in a letter to influential senators, insurance industry executives promise,…
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Watch Sebelius confirmation hearing
Sen. Edward Kennedy has opened the confirmation hearing for Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to become the secretary of the Department…