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...Never underestimate the capacity of angry populism in times of economic stress," - Robert Reich, The New York Times, March...
...Congress debates health-care reform, American families are already picking up the tab for universal health coverage. That's the finding of a new report released March 24 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington-based liberal think tank...
...Administration and certain Democrats in Congress have suggested to pay for an overhaul of the health-care system is by taxing employer-provided health benefits, which some government officials estimate could provide up to $200 billion in additional tax revenues for national health care. Meanwhile, a second report released March 24, by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI) think tank, shows that implementing such a tax may actually increase the ranks of the uninsured and raise premiums for people with coverage. "Taxing health-insurance benefits would encourage the young and healthy to opt out of [risk] pools," says author Elise...
...Obama Administration has offered few details thus far as to how it plans to institute comprehensive health-care coverage. In a letter to Congress March 24, however, the health-insurance industry - including America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association - indicated it would be willing to stop charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems if all Americans were required to purchase health plans. Such a measure, as the CAP report suggests, could be the first step to saving all Americans money...
...That was the goal of a study published March 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. What the investigators found was not encouraging. Currently, only about 1 in 10 hospitals nationwide has adopted even basic electronic record-keeping - and when you look inside that one statistic, the situation gets bleaker...