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...time of increased demand, medical examiners' and coroners' offices around the country, like many other county agencies, are experiencing severe budget cuts that may only worsen the problem, says Dr. Jeffrey Jentzen, past president and chairman of the board of the National Association of Medical Examiners. Says Jentzen: "Every medical examiner I've talked to has had major cuts in financial support from the county that are going to start impacting service. I'm talking about cuts in the 20%-to-25% range across the nation." Jentzen worked as the chief medical examiner for Milwaukee County for 20 years before...
...private insurers and their agents, who Democrats argued - and still argue - don't have the muscle to get the steep discounts that a huge government program could. "Direct negotiation for lower prescription-drug prices is directly related to our lobbying- and ethics-reform legislation," Rahm Emanuel, then the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told the New York Times in January 2007. Both were needed, he said, "to make sure that special interests do not control what happens in Congress." The Medicare bill passed the House but died in the Senate...
...slowing the process, though, it doesn't mean there's no movement. The House, with its solid majority of Democrats and tight control by Nancy Pelosi and House Financial Services chief Barney Frank, is expected to move legislation early in the fall. Senator Chris Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, faces a tough re-election battle in 2010 and has every reason to push for a bill. His GOP counterpart, Shelby, is a potential obstacle, but aides say the 75-year-old Senator recognizes the need for change: no one wants a taxpayer-funded bailout like TARP...
Rangel has been in the House of Representatives since 1971 and on the committee since 1974. When he rose to chairman in 2007, Rangel became the first African American ever to hold the position. "To be the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is probably as close to being a major figure in a European monarchy as we have to offer," says Ross Baker, a political-science professor at Rutgers University. "The chairman is subject to the largest numbers of entreaties and colossal deference because everybody has got a tax angle. It means you are paid court...
...1990s. Essentially, a wider "age band," like the 5-to-1 ratio insurers favor, would allow them to charge higher amounts to middle-aged people not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare, while keeping younger people's premiums much lower. In a recent letter to Henry Waxman - chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of five congressional committees with jurisdiction over health reform - the president and CEO of Blue Shield of California wrote, "Given the systematic consequences of imposing such a tight band, we strongly urge you to widen...