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Byline: Julie Rovner The biggest fiscal question about the pending health overhaul bills, it turns out, probably isn't whether they are revenue-neutral, either in the first or second decade. It's [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner Given how long Congress has been studying, arguing, debating, chewing over and otherwise pondering how to fix the nation's healthcare system, it's a wonder how members of [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner For those of us who covered former President Bill Clinton's unsuccessful effort to remake the nation's healthcare system 16 years ago, this month feels a lot like [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner Those who are busy writing the obituaries for this latest attempt to remake the nation's healthcare system need look no further than the largest industry stakeholders for [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner The conventional wisdom about overhauling the nation's healthcare system is that the principal beneficiaries would be the 46 million or so Americans who lack health insurance. And [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner First came the happy talk on healthcare overhaul. Now comes the hand-wringing. Democrats' inclusion of reconciliation instructions in the FY10 budget resolution 'closes the door on good, [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner The healthcare happy talk is over. Just as the spring flowers are starting to bloom, so is the inevitable controversy over efforts to overhaul the nation's $2 [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner There's a big March snowstorm in the East; there's a brand new Democratic president and big Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. The economy's in the [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner Democrats and Republicans share one thing when it comes to reshaping the nation's healthcare system: the fantasy of a bill that could win 80 votes in the [...]

Byline: Julie Rovner So it's come to this: An increase in healthcare spending of 'only' 6.1 percent -- compared to 4.8 percent for the rest of the economy -- is [...]

WASHINGTON -- Dec-13 -- (CongressDaily) Negotiations on the economic stimulus bill turned to health care Thursday, as Democrats and Republicans tried to hash out their differences over whether to expand [...]

WASHINGTON -- Dec-4 -- (CongressDaily) Not only are another half a million Medicare beneficiaries being dislocated because of a Medicare HMO leaving the program next year, but those whose plans [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nov-28 -- (CongressDaily) A quiz as the 107th Congress approaches halftime: What is the distinction of S. 700? The bill to establish a federal interagency task force to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nov-28 -- (CongressDaily) House backers of a human cloning ban urged the Senate to act Wednesday, and said they were exploring ways to try to force a vote, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nov-27 -- (CongressDaily) Congress could be gearing up for a repeat of last year, as legislators from both parties in both houses are vowing to block or at [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nov-7 -- (CongressDaily) Here is an ad you probably won't see in your local personals section: 'Needy but deserving healthcare providers in search of legislative vehicle to carry [...]

WASHINGTON -- Oct-24 -- (CongressDaily) The world has changed since Sept. 11, in health care as everywhere else. Legislators whose top priorities for this fall were prescription drugs for Medicare [...]

WASHINGTON -- Oct-24 -- (CongressDaily) Prospects for Senate floor action this week on a bioterrorism bill dimmed Wednesday, as negotiations between Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Kennedy and Public [...]

WASHINGTON -- Oct-10 -- (CongressDaily) Congress and the country are correctly focusing these days on the immediate security threat related to the terrorist bombings of Sept. 11. But while attention [...]

WASHINGTON -- Oct-10 -- (CongressDaily) The House is expected today to take up its penultimate FY02 spending bill, for the Departments of Labor, HHS and Education. But the bipartisan comity [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jun-27 -- (CongressDaily) Picking up the pace of negotiations on the 'Patients' Bill of Rights,' senators prepared today to address some of the thorniest disputes in the bill. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Apr-25 -- (CongressDaily) HHS Secretary Thompson said he expects legal and scientific reviews of stem cell research policy to be complete and to him by 'the end of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Apr-25 -- (CongressDaily) Senators on both sides of the fight over a patients' bill of rights are dismissing a potential compromise being floated in the House--a bill that [...]

WASHINGTON -- Feb-15 -- (CongressDaily) Pledges to work together notwithstanding, the House, Senate, and Bush administration are already at odds over a Medicare drug benefit. On Wednesday, Senate Finance Chairman [...]

WASHINGTON -- Feb-14 -- (CongressDaily) The nation's managed-care industry Tuesday charged a 'compromise' managed-care plan introduced last week by Senate Commerce Chairman McCain, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee ranking [...]

WASHINGTON -- Feb-14 -- (CongressDaily) As the current nursing workforce ages and fewer younger people pursue nursing as a career, a potentially devastating shortage of nurses looms just as 78 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Feb-7 -- (CongressDaily) The fight over the abortion drug RU486 picked up Tuesday right where it left off last year--with abortion opponents introducing legislation to impose restrictions on [...]

WASHINGTON -- Sep-21 -- (CongressDaily) With time running out on the 106th Congress, passage of a Medicare prescription drug benefit--any Medicare prescription drug benefit--is looking increasingly unlikely. And while the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jul-13 -- (CongressDaily) The Medicare reform plan unveiled by Finance Chairman Roth Wednesday is intended to give everyone in the politically supercharged debate something to like, but it [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jul-12 -- (CongressDaily) A popular successor measure to last year's bill to help adults with disabilities keep their government-provided health insurance when they return to work is having [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jun-30 -- (CongressDaily) Congress may be leaving for recess, but the fight over the Patients' Bill of Rights will follow members home. Both proponents and opponents of the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jun-29 -- (CongressDaily) The Supreme Court's decision to strike down Nebraska's so-called partial birth abortion ban as unconstitutional will not end efforts to send a similar measure to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jun-29 -- (CongressDaily) The House Wednesday approved a Republican-sponsored measure to provide prescription drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries, following some of the most bitter partisan rhetoric of the [...]