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Sebelius calls on insurance company executives to justify premium hikes

 Chelsey Ledue March 08, 2010
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has asked the CEOs of top health insurance companies to justify proposed health insurance premium hikes.
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Obama keeps focus on healthcare reform

 Diana Manos February 26, 2010
President Barack Obama had hoped to pass healthcare reform by the end of 2009, but the last major action Congress has taken on the effort came on Christmas Eve when the Senate passed it's overhaul package by the slimmest possible margin.
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Obama gives GOP 6-week deadline to get on board with healthcare package

 Diana Manos February 26, 2010
At a White House healthcare summit held Thursday, President Barack Obama urged Republican congressional leaders to consider working on several areas of common interest in the healthcare reform package, giving them a rough 6-week deadline before Democrats may consider using alternative measures to pass the plan.
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White House summit kicks off renewed focus on healthcare reform

 Diana Manos February 25, 2010
Congressional leaders joined President Barack Obama today at the White House to launch an all-day televised bipartisan discussion on the deadlocked healthcare reform legislation.
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Obama releases his own plan for healthcare reform

 Diana Manos February 22, 2010
As Congressional leaders prepare for Thursday's White House summit on healthcare reform, President Barack Obama has released his own version of a healthcare reform plan.
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HHS to offer $1B in healthcare job grants

 Bernie Monegain February 12, 2010
The government is poised to announce nearly $1 billion in grants to boost the use of health information technology, a measure the White House contends will help control skyrocketing costs of healthcare.
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Public health organizations urge health reform, preventive care

 Diana Manos February 11, 2010
More than 175 public health organizations have sent a letter to the White House and Congress voicing "strong" support for comprehensive healthcare reform.
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In pre-Super Bowl appearance, Obama targets healthcare reform

 Diana Manos February 08, 2010
President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to revisit healthcare at a White House summit – this time before a live camera.
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Haiti needs help from U.S. hospitals

 Action for Better Healthcare January 19, 2010
According to the American Hospital Association, the White House is asking hospitals that wish to make donations to the Haitian earthquake relief effort to register online.
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Senate passes healthcare reform bill

 Diana Manos December 23, 2009
The Senate passed a sweeping healthcare reform bill Thursday morning, bringing an overhaul to the U.S. healthcare system just one vote away from reality.
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$600M in ARRA funding to give 85 community health centers a boost

 Molly Merrill December 09, 2009
Nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding has been earmarked for community health center construction and renovation projects and to help networks of health centers adopt electronic healthcare records and other health IT systems.
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$600M in ARRA funding to give 85 community health centers a boost

 Diana Manos December 09, 2009
Nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding has been earmarked for community health center construction and renovation projects and to help networks of health centers adopt electronic healthcare records and other health IT systems.
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Senate GOP wants lawmakers to enroll in public option, should it pass

 Diana Manos December 08, 2009
As the Senate continues to debate its healthcare reform bill, Senate minority leaders Tom Coburn, MD (R-Okla.), Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and David Vitter (R-La.) filed an amendment this week that would call on the president, his administration, White House staff, members of Congress and their staff to enroll in the government-run public option, should it pass.
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Budget Director Orszag discusses cost containment in Dem bills

 Robert Laszewski December 03, 2009
I was encouraged by remarks White House Budget chief Peter Orszag made in Washington on Wednesday. There has been substantial debate in recent days about whether the pending House and Senate bills have the kind of robust cost containment we need to really "bend" any healthcare cost "curves."
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White House backs Senate plan to cut healthcare costs

 Diana Manos November 25, 2009
White House officials said Wednesday that the Senate proposal for healthcare reform can contain escalating healthcare costs.
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White House officials to hold healthcare cost containment press conference today

 Healthcare Finance News Staff November 25, 2009
Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform will hold a media conference call today to discuss cost-containment and delivery system reform measures in health insurance reform legislation being considered in Congress.
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Why AHIP needs the public option

 Matthew Holt October 19, 2009
After years of explaining that neither could AHIP do genuine research nor could its venerable President open her mouth without lying, the rest of the world has caught on.
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Emanuel proposes vision for doing more with less in healthcare

 Bernie Monegain October 12, 2009
Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House adviser on healthcare policy, says high-touch is the way to fix the nation’s failing – and costly – healthcare system. In his keynote talk at the Medical Group Management Association in Denver on Sunday Emanuel called for doctors to change their ways of practicing medicine.
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Senate Finance Committee misses its own deadline to pass health reform bill

 Diana Manos October 07, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee is still in a closed-door debate over its healthcare reform bill, one week after finishing a mark-up and voting on amendments to the bill.
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Doctors meet at White House; some push single-payer system

Diana Manos October 06, 2009
One hundred and fifty physicians, some of them promoting a single-payer system, met at the White House Monday to discuss healthcare reform.
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