Word: emanuele
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...doesn't have to peer too far back at previous health-reform efforts to realize that "the devil is in the detail," as Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff and a veteran of health-reform efforts under Clinton, recently said. Emanuel helped work on the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of several incremental changes made after Clinton's comprehensive reform failed to go anywhere in 1994. HIPAA was intended to ensure that Americans would not be denied coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions when they switched coverage while moving from...
...remember all the high-fiving each other [after passage of] portable health care in 1996," said Emanuel before adding, "It's been empty." Although HIPAA prohibited insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions, it didn't limit how much insurers could charge in premiums. The result: insurers in states without premium caps were charging those with pre-existing conditions as much as 464% of standard premiums, according to the Government Accountability Office. (Other researchers found examples that were even more egregious, including a Colorado insurer charging premiums as much as 2,000% of normal rates...
...well worn Obama-Lincoln comparisons one more similarity: an apparent aversion to big birthday parties. The 16th President never celebrated his birthday in the White House, according to Lincoln biographer Emanuel Hertz. Obama, likewise, is ringing in his 48th on Aug. 4 with a decided lack of pomp. He dined, hooped and - ahem - bowled with friends at Camp David over the weekend, but he's spending the big day itself on the job, having lunch with Senate Democrats to discuss his Administration's accomplishments and goals. (No word on whether there will be cake.) Sure, it sounds like a snooze...
...million to fight the idea of a public plan that would compete with private insurers; two liberal groups - Health Care for America Now and the National Physicians Alliance - have run ads in six states arguing that a public option is essential. "August," says White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, "has both peril and opportunity...
...time to working to get a health bill passed. On July 22, Obama was struck by Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein's contention in the morning paper that even an imperfect health-reform plan beats the status quo. The President circulated the column to his senior staff, Emanuel recalls, declaring, "This is required reading." And that night at his prime-time news conference, Obama repeated Pearlstein's argument. Top aides say he spends at least two hours a day in meetings and on the phone with key members of Congress, particularly those on the Senate Finance Committee - some of whom...