Health bills would shift Medicare money to Mayo and other ‘high-value’ hospitals
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 6th, 2010 5:36 am by HL
Health bills would shift Medicare money to Mayo and other ‘high-value’ hospitals
As House and Senate lawmakers start to reconcile their health-care bills with an eye to final passage, a little-noticed provision is already prompting celebration from a small group of influential hospitals that stand to gain millions in Medicare dollars
Democrats holding final intraparty talks on health-care reform
Democratic leaders in Congress began a final round of health-care talks Tuesday, pledging to overcome their remaining differences, with the aim of sending a bill to President Obama before his State of the Union address in late January or early February.
Return of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay is suspended
The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is suspending the repatriation of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, where a deteriorating security situation driven by a branch of al-Qaeda has stoked fears that detainees could join — or rejoin — the terrorist organization if released.
Attempt to bomb airliner could have been prevented, Obama says
President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies could have prevented the attempt to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day, and used a grim and forceful White House statement to demand rapid improvements in efforts to protect Americans from attack.
