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PhRMA, Families USA Praise Merkley, Wyden

Reformers and drug companies team up to praise Oregon senators in the lead up to a Congressional health reform bill
Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
June 17, 2009 -- Strange bedfellows. That’s how Ron Pollack describes his recent collaboration with the pharmaceutical trade group, better known as the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of America. Read More >>

Where's Wyden on Obama's Health Reform?

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is luke warm for Obama's plan with a public option.
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Originally at Portland Mercury
June 11, 2009 -- President Barack Obama may be facing tacit opposition to his planned health care reform over the coming months from an unlikely source: Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden. Read More >>

Politics Aside, Would a Public Option Work?

The fight for a public health plan option may have lost sight of what it really means
Nancy Ann DeParle
June 5, 2009 -- As Congress prepares its healthcare reform package, a debate looms over whether it should include a “public option” to compete with private plans and, presumably, keep them honest. Since a universal public health plan -- single payer—challenges the whole role of private insurance, the public option was supposed to be seen by the health insurance industry as a “lesser evil” and therefore elicit less resistance.
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Senators Consider Public Option With Triggers

The option for a public health plan like Medicare has senators divided, forging compromise that would diminish plan
Originally at HuffingtonPost.com
Sens. Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus
June 2, 2009 -- The Obama administration and Senate Democrats are debating a health care reform outline that will insist upon a public option for insurance but leave open the possibility for it to be kicked in via triggers.
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A Case for the Public Plan Option

What is the industry afraid of?
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May 28, 2009 -- We appear to be closing in on the next generation of health care reform with expectations of action by Congress as early as this summer. One of the most contentious questions is whether the introduction of a new government run, public plan should be included. Would this be the mother of all unfunded entitlements? Read More >>

Healthcare Lobby Turns on Obama, Mounts Attack

Days after a landmark deal at the White House, healthcare industry leaders said Obama got the story wrong
May 21, 2009 -- In the two weeks since a landmark announcement that healthcare industry leaders would trim their own growth by 1.5 percent per year, industry lobby groups behind the scenes were mounting million-dollar advertising campaigns against key planks in the Obama plan, reports the Washington Post.
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Open Letter to Congress

In aiming to cover everyone with insurance, don't forget costs
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Despite all the talk of change, most of the noise emanating from inside the Beltway suggests that in health care, we are going to get more of the same:  Employer-based care, more cost, and more government subsidies so the insurance industry can continue to profit from an inefficient delivery system. Read More >>

Single Payer Activists Disrupt Senate Hearing

One after another, activists disrupt the Senate Finance Committee hearing by asking, "Why isn't single payer on the table?"
Originally at Politico.com
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May 5, 2009 -- Health care activists disrupted a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, standing up one after the other as Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) tried to restore order.
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Groups Strategize for Single-Payer Plan

The best way to get half the pie is to ask for the whole pie
Originally at Politico.com
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April 28, 2009 -- President Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) rarely pass up a chance to snub single-payer health care — a term that means a government-run system.
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Congress Hopes to Have Health Bills by June

U.S. Sens. Baucus and Kennedy return from recess with firm deadlines for healthcare legislation
Originally at Reuters
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April 20, 2009 -- The chairmen of two Senate committees drafting legislation to overhaul healthcare told President Barack Obama on Monday they were working together to have bills ready by early June.
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