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People who experience symptoms of possible influenza infection—including sudden fever, cough, muscle aches, and sore throat—were urged in a statement issued by the Boston Public Health Commission today to contact their health care providers for additional guidance...
...Pawlenty cancelled plans to give a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday evening after learning of his state’s first probable case of swine flu. He was scheduled to give a presentation titled “The Need to Transform America’s Education, Health Care, and Energy Systems,” but instead chose to remain in his home state to respond to the development. “This is a situation that can become more serious,” he said in a press conference yesterday. “It is a sign...
...budget that just passed both houses of Congress has given the prospects for health-care reform this year a big boost. With the inclusion of procedural language that would make it impossible for opponents to filibuster, it will now take a simple majority to pass the Senate, rather than 60 votes, simplifying the political arithmetic considerably...
...that is only the beginning. As hard as it will be for lawmakers to navigate the political and philosophical minefields to get to 51 votes for health-care reform, the most difficult challenge of all may be the number on the bottom line. Under the budget rules, any reform scheme will have to pay for itself within six years. (See five truths about health care in America...
...meet that ambitious goal in such a short time frame may make it hard for lawmakers to make the wisest policy choices. Though advocates say that fixing the health system promises big savings over the long haul, it will take some big, up-front investments - in technology and preventive care, for instance - whose benefits will not begin to take effect for years. And most of the savings will accrue not to the Federal Government - whose direct costs for health care are felt largely through the Medicare and Medicaid programs - but to the economy writ large, where health care now accounts...