Search Results for "Nancy Pelosi"

Sort by: Date | Rating | # Views | # Comments

Premier offers Congress its ideas for healthcare reform

 Healthcare Finance News Staff January 13, 2010
Premier healthcare alliance, which encompasses 2,300 not-for profit hospitals and health systems and more than 63,000 other healthcare organizations, addressed healthcare reform in a letter to Congressional leadership Jan. 12.
(0)

AHA backs universal coverage

Diana Manos January 11, 2010
As Congressional leaders work to merge the House and Senate versions of their healthcare reform bills, the American Hospital Association has asked that any final reform provide universal coverage.
(0)

Senate sells out on public option: Time is a-wastin'

 Diana Manos December 09, 2009
The Senate last night came up with another way it might cajole centrist Democrats and maybe a few Republicans into backing their healthcare package.
(0)

House permanently repeals Medicare physician payment cuts

 Chelsey Ledue November 20, 2009
The House of Representatives has passed, by a vote of 243 to 183, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, which permanently repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010 and replaces the physician payment formula with a more stable system.
(0)

Stakeholders laud health reform package, await companion bill

 Diana Manos November 08, 2009
Healthcare stakeholder groups have praised the House's passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act but eagerly anticipate a companion bill that could repeal the "broken physician payment formula."
(0)

House unveils health reform bill

Diana Manos October 30, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled on Thursday an $894 billion comprehensive health reform package. Pelosi said H.R. 3962 would rein in premiums, co-pays and deductibles and lift the cap on what insurance companies cover each year.
(0)

U.S. House Speaker Pelosi touts public option in statement

 Industry News Release September 04, 2009
U. S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said health insurance reform legislation pending before Congress requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs.
(0)

Congress switches from recess to reform

 Diana Manos August 28, 2009
When Congress returns from summer recess on Sept. 9, passing a health reform bill will be at the top of the agenda. And it won’t be easy, experts say.
(0)

House proposes massive health reform bill

 Diana Manos July 15, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said America's Affordable Health Choices Act, the healthcare reform bill announced Tuesday by the House, is geared toward the middle class and would lower costs to consumers and businesses.
(2)

Obama pushes healthcare IT as part of major economic recovery plan

 Diana Manos January 08, 2009
In a major speech Thursday, likened to those given on the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his plans for an economic recovery package he hopes to begin moving through Congress as...
(0)

Congress reacts to SCHIP veto

 Chip Means January 08, 2008
WASHINGTON – For the second time in two months, President Bush vetoed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program in an effort to prevent Congressional Democrats from...
(0)

Second SCHIP veto resonates in Congress

 Chip Means December 13, 2007
For the second time in two months, President Bush yesterday vetoed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program in an effort to prevent Congressional Democrats from spending an...
(0)

House Speaker's aide outlines top healthcare agenda

 Diana Manos May 20, 2007
According to a senior policy advisor for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), this year's top Democrat healthcare agenda includes "major" expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Pr...
(0)