BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Oct 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM
rejection of two amendments, one from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and one from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), that would have incorporated a public option in the bill.READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers made headlines this week in pointing out that the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform proposal, as currently outlined (approved by a 14-9 margin on October 13)READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
This week, Senate Finance Committee members voted on the committee's health care reform bill, and the conversation shifted to how to reconcile the bill with pending legislation from the House.READ»
This week, legislators from the Senate Finance Committee waited for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a cost estimate for the revised health care reform bill before bringing the legislation to a committee vote, now expected to take place next week.READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 94 Thu Oct 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM
The Senate Finance Committee essentially wrapped up its work on a health care reform bill last week, though additional changes are still possible READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 86 Fri Oct 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Inside-the-Beltway politics were in full swing last week as the insurance industry came under heavy fire from some members of Congress and the media for releasing a PricewaterhouseCoopers report prior to the Senate Finance Committee's scheduled voteREAD»
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BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 63 Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM
The Senate Finance Committee wasted no time last week in wading through a seemingly endless number of amendments to its proposed health care reform legislation (see below). READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 52 Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Senate
The long-awaited cost estimate of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform proposal, “America’s Healthy Future Act,” was released this week by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).READ»
Lawmakers returned to Washington this week after a heated August recess to continue to negotiate health care reform. Americans remain sharply divided on legislation: In a Gallup Poll released Tuesday, 39% of those polled say they would direct their member of Congress to vote against a health care reform bill this fall, while 37% want their member to vote in favor of a health care reform bill.READ»
With the death of Senator Edward Kennedy last week, many are bemoaning the lack of compromise in the legislative process these days -- a tough hurdle for any health care reform bill to overcome. The Senate Finance Committee pledged to READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 39 Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM
With opposition to a government-plan option evident at many health care reform town hall meetings this summer, an alternative option based on private regional cooperatives is now getting a lot more serious attention. In fact, Senate Finance Committee member Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), part of a six-member team READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 37 Fri Aug 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM
This Week in Health Care Reform
This week, Sen. Ted Kennedy, longtime champion of universal health coverage, died at age 77. It remains to be seen how his death will affect the debate over health care reform as Democrats continue efforts without his guidance. Sen. Kennedy READ»
Last week will go down as a truly significant week in health care reform. The House leadership unveiled its 1,000+ page bill and announced that the three committees of jurisdiction would immediately begin mark-up sessions designed to get a composite bill to the House floor by the end of July. Late last week the House Ways and Means Committee approved the House bill 23 to 18READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 31 Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Even as partisan rhetoric swirled even stronger around the subject of health care reform, the Senate Finance Committee continued its health reform negotiations last week in what is the last hope for a bipartisan bill from READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 25 Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 1:10 PM
The Senate’s health care reform legislation has still not yet been unveiled, but there are reports that an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office has found the bill to be more costly than expected, so Senate Democrats are already considering new ways to pay for the bill. READ»
BYKevin Ohannessian Relevancy Score: 23 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 12:38 PM
Earlier today, Greenspan warned that sanctions against China and their low cost imports could backfire, costing Americans jobs and creating less competition in the marktplace. China has kept the Yuan at a steady exchange rate to the ...READ»
BYChad Levin Relevancy Score: 22 Sun Nov 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM
This week, lawmakers fine-tuned their reform proposals and, once again, the public option became the central issue of the health care reform debate.READ»
