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Health Care Reform
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Various Congressional Bills
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will debate their bills on the respective floors in early Fall, 2009.
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For the first time in many years, health care reform is at the top of the federal legislative and fiscal agendas. Secretary of Health and Human Services Katherine Sebelius has been working closely with Nancy-Ann DeParle in her role as director of the White House Office for Health Reform. Following months of debate in and around Congress, the committees of jurisdiction are near completion of their respective bills. The House Tri-Committee (Ways/Means, Energy /Commerce and Education /Labor) has introduced HR 3200 which will be debated on the House floor in September; the Senate Finance Committee will release their bill in early September, and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has introduced the Affordable Health Choices Act.
While each of the bills proposes to cover 95-98% of the uninsured, theoretically lowering the number of consumers utilizing our EDS for non-emergent use, and include major reforms to the delivery system such as guarantee issue, long term financial burdens to hospitals are expected. In the spirit of ‘shared responsibility’, the hospital industry has come to an agreement with the White House and Senate Finance Committee to cap Medicare reductions at $155B/10 years.
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