Today, on World AIDS Day, we take a moment to recognize those living with AIDS and the organizations dedicated to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment. There are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS today in the United States. Another 56,000 Americans contract HIV each year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that […]
If you’re an avid reader of this blog or you’ve been following the health insurance reform process closely, you probably know by now that reform will strengthen Medicare and keep the Medicare trust fund in the black for an additional five years. So you might find it curious that opponents of reform continue to repeat […]
Today, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina issued this memo to all White House staff summarizing the White House review that was conducted after the State Dinner Tuesday night: Read the memo. Fonte: White House
As the Senate debate gets into full swing this week, we thought we’d address a half dozen of the myths you will most certainly hear from critics of health insurance reform. If it feels like you have heard these arguments before, it is because you have… you have heard them over and over and over again. You […]
There’s a new report out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the economic impact of the Recovery Act. I’ll get to the findings in a second, but somebody over at the Wall St. Journal’s editorial page has a whole lot of explaining to do. Here what CBO found: Between its inception in February of this year […]
Today, on World AIDS Day, we take a moment to recognize those living with AIDS and the organizations dedicated to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment. There are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS today in the United States. Another 56,000 Americans contract HIV each year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that […]
If you’re an avid reader of this blog or you’ve been following the health insurance reform process closely, you probably know by now that reform will strengthen Medicare and keep the Medicare trust fund in the black for an additional five years. So you might find it curious that opponents of reform continue to repeat […]
I was very pleased to join Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, the President’s Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, ONAP Director Jeffrey Crowley, and Dr. Elly Katabira, President-elect of the International AIDS Society at the White House today for an event on the eve of World AIDS Day […]
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis (pdf) of the Senate version health insurance reform – and it contains more good news about what reform will mean for families struggling to keep up with skyrocketing premiums under the broken status quo. Like other recent analyses, the CBO report finds that lower administrative costs, increased […]
The Thanksgiving holiday is over, and attention now turns to the Senate floor debate on its health insurance reform. Today’s Washington Post explores one aspect of this debate– and that’s what the impact of health reform will be on our deficits and fiscal situation. There are three things to keep in mind when assessing this […]
