Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, for a news conference on: SCHIP Reauthorization: Views, insights, and implications Thursday, August 2 10:00 a.m. Room 1416, Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. Health policy experts who have followed and studied the State Children's Health Insurance Program since its inception will offer their views on … [Read more...] about SCHIP Reauthorization: Views, insights, and implications
SCHIP Redux
Despite threats of a presidential veto, the Senate Finance Committee, with the support of a majority of its Republican members and all the Democrats, sent to the floor yesterday a five-year expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program with a $60 billion price tag. Only Sens. Trent Lott (MS), John Ensign (NV), Jim Bunning (KY), and John Kyl (AZ) voted ?no? on the bill that HHS … [Read more...] about SCHIP Redux
SCHIP Overreach
The State Children's Health Insurance Program is on the front burner in Congress, with the Senate Finance Committee expected to send a bill reauthorizing the program to the floor as early as next week. SCHIP will expire at the end of September unless Congress acts. The battle lines are being drawn: Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee announced this week a deal that would … [Read more...] about SCHIP Overreach
Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Two pieces of legislation dealing with prescription drugs are currently winding their way through Congress. The bills, however, are completely contradictory. One would create new controls for drug safety. The other would open the nation's supply chain to imported pharmaceuticals, many of which could be fake, counterfeit, or contaminated. Is Congress for drug safety or against it? … [Read more...] about Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Two pieces of legislation dealing with prescription drugs are currently winding their way through Congress. The bills, however, are completely contradictory. One would create new controls for drug safety. The other would open the nation's supply chain to imported pharmaceuticals, many of which could be fake, counterfeit, or contaminated. Is Congress for drug safety or against it? … [Read more...] about Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Oval Office Meeting
President Bush expressed renewed interest in a refundable tax credit for the uninsured during an Oval Office meeting yesterday that I was privileged to attend, and he also drew the line on ?a massive expansion? of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. ?[O]ur nation has a clear choice,? Mr. Bush said in a statement in the Roosevelt Room after the meeting. ?One option is to put more power … [Read more...] about Oval Office Meeting
Response to the AMA's call to ban retail health clinics
The American Medical Association's call to ban retail health clinics is disheartening ("AMA takes on retail clinics," June 25). The AMA claims that retail health clinics are unsafe. But the clinics follow protocols from the Mayo Clinic and other highly-respected medical institutions to guide their decision making. Physicians' assistants and advanced degree nurses perform … [Read more...] about Response to the AMA's call to ban retail health clinics
Response to the AMA’s call to ban retail health clinics
The American Medical Association's call to ban retail health clinics is disheartening ("AMA takes on retail clinics," June 25). The AMA claims that retail health clinics are unsafe. But the clinics follow protocols from the Mayo Clinic and other highly-respected medical institutions to guide their decision making. Physicians' assistants and advanced degree nurses perform … [Read more...] about Response to the AMA’s call to ban retail health clinics