Your Weekly Medicare Consumer Advocacy Update June 25, 2009 • Volume 9, Issue 25 PhRMA, the brand-name drug manufacturers’ lobby, promised this week that drug companies would provide a 50 percent discount on brand-name drugs in the doughnut hole, the coverage gap built into the Part D drug benefit. The discounts would be available starting July [...]
Archive for June 26th, 2009
26 Jun
The Two Trillion Dollar Solution
Center for American Progress Saving Money by Modernizing the Health Care System Fundamental health system reform involving just three strategies will lead to federal savings of about $550 billion over the next decade. SOURCE: iStockphoto By Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, David M. Cutler | June 24, 2009 Read the full report (pdf) Download the executive summary [...]
26 Jun
The Public Health Insurance Option As A Strong Competitor
Featured blog entries-CAF 5/28/09 4:25 PM Jason Rosenbaum2 Health Care for All 501c(3) health insurance public plan Issues Now! Jacob Hacker at Campaign for America’s Future laid out the case for a Medicare-like public health insurance option: A Medicare-like public plan would be much more stable and secure than other approaches. It would provide the [...]
26 Jun
IMMIGRATION
thinkprogress.org Time For The ‘Heavy Lifting’ To Begin At a bipartisan meeting with congressional lawmakers yesterday, President Obama pledged “that he would push for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration system by early next year.” “It’s going to require some heavy lifting,” Obama said. “It’s going to require a victory of practicality and common [...]
