Obama Supports Easing Health Law Mandates for States
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and KEVIN SACK
WASHINGTON — Seeking to appease disgruntled governors, President Obama announced Monday that he supported amending the 2010 health care law to allow states to opt out of its most burdensome requirements three years earlier than currently permitted.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/politics/01health.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Obama Endorses Plan to Let States Opt Out of U.S. Health Law
By - Feb 28, 2011U.S. President Barack Obama said he supports a plan to let states opt out of the health-care law to set up their own systems starting in 2014 that provide benefits and coverage equivalent to federal law.Obama, speaking today at the White House to the nation’s governors, said states can apply for waivers under the law to try their own hands at meeting the goals of the overhaul he pushed through Congress. The law has a provision that lets states set up their own programs in 2017.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-02-28/obama-endorses-plan-to-let-states-opt-out-of-u-s-health-care-overhaul-law.html
Obama's Flexibility Pledge on Health Care Gets Mixed Reaction in Maine 02/28/2011 Reported By: Josie Huang
Today, President Obama met with a roomful of governors, many of whom are critical of the health care law championed by his administration--governors such as Gov. Paul LePage, who supported Maine joining a legal challenge of a mandate that nearly everybody carry health coverage. Obama said he understood states want more flexibility in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and said that he would support their efforts to find alternatives to mandates by 2014, when the law takes effect. In Maine, health care advocates praised the move, saying it will allow states to tailor the federal law to their needs. But the law's critics say it accomplishes little.
Obama backs Brownеs bill tempering health care rule
WASHINGTON б President Obama said yesterday he is willing to relax the new health care lawеs requirement that nearly all Americans obtain health insurance starting in 2014, but only in states that can show they have an alternative plan to gain near-universal coverage.Displaying his willingness to compromise on one of the most controversial aspects of the overhaul, the presidentеs move appeared on its face to give states far more freedom to shape the law to their own needs. Obama was endorsing a concept that has been proposed by Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, in a bipartisan bill filed with Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon.But conservative critics of the president said that a variety of other requirements in the law also should be eliminated, and they said the presidentеs announcement, made in an address to the nationеs governors, could prove to be an empty gesture.
By The Numbers: Health Inequalities From Economics And Racehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/26/report-poor-americans-hav_n_828414.html?view=print
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and KEVIN SACK
WASHINGTON — Seeking to appease disgruntled governors, President Obama announced Monday that he supported amending the 2010 health care law to allow states to opt out of its most burdensome requirements three years earlier than currently permitted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/politics/01health.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
Obama Endorses Plan to Let States Opt Out of U.S. Health Law
By - Feb 28, 2011
U.S. President Barack Obama said he supports a plan to let states opt out of the health-care law to set up their own systems starting in 2014 that provide benefits and coverage equivalent to federal law.
Obama, speaking today at the White House to the nation’s governors, said states can apply for waivers under the law to try their own hands at meeting the goals of the overhaul he pushed through Congress. The law has a provision that lets states set up their own programs in 2017.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-02-28/obama-endorses-plan-to-let-states-opt-out-of-u-s-health-care-overhaul-law.html
By The Numbers: Health Inequalities From Economics And Racehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/26/report-poor-americans-hav_n_828414.html?view=print
| Obama's Flexibility Pledge on Health Care Gets Mixed Reaction in Maine | |||
| 02/28/2011 Reported By: Josie Huang | |||
Today, President Obama met with a roomful of governors, many of whom are critical of the health care law championed by his administration--governors such as Gov. Paul LePage, who supported Maine joining a legal challenge of a mandate that nearly everybody carry health coverage. Obama said he understood states want more flexibility in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and said that he would support their efforts to find alternatives to mandates by 2014, when the law takes effect. In Maine, health care advocates praised the move, saying it will allow states to tailor the federal law to their needs. But the law's critics say it accomplishes little. Obama backs Brownеs bill tempering health care ruleWASHINGTON б President Obama said yesterday he is willing to relax the new health care lawеs requirement that nearly all Americans obtain health insurance starting in 2014, but only in states that can show they have an alternative plan to gain near-universal coverage. Displaying his willingness to compromise on one of the most controversial aspects of the overhaul, the presidentеs move appeared on its face to give states far more freedom to shape the law to their own needs. Obama was endorsing a concept that has been proposed by Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, in a bipartisan bill filed with Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon. But conservative critics of the president said that a variety of other requirements in the law also should be eliminated, and they said the presidentеs announcement, made in an address to the nationеs governors, could prove to be an empty gesture. |
By The Numbers: Health Inequalities From Economics And Racehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/26/report-poor-americans-hav_n_828414.html?view=print
The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update
Don't Buy Insurance Industry's "Objective Analysis"
Connecticut residents who believe their state should be the first in the nation to set up a public health insurance option to compete with private insurers should brace themselves for what will be a beautifully packaged, seemingly well-researched study from the insurance industry to convince them otherwise.
Bronx-Lebanon Obstetricians Face Malpractice Insurance Cutoff
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
A malpractice insurance group has warned obstetricians at a South Bronx hospital that it is considering cutting off their insurance, which could force surrounding hospitals to absorb hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of baby deliveries a year.
A Housecall to Help With Doctor’s Orders
By TINA ROSENBERGFixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.
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Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesReynaldo Rodriguez of the Care Coordination program counseled a patient with H.I.V. on how to adhere to a drug regimen.
Doctors are very good at telling us what to do — but we are very poor at doing it. In fact, the health problems of millions of Americans are directly related to our failure to follow doctors’ orders.
