Making the Health Care Reform Law Work
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 23rd, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Making the Health Care Reform Law Work
Kathleen Sebelius, Roll Call
When Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act this March, it took a health insurance system that was locked in a decades-long spiral of rising costs and shrinking security and set it on a new course. The new law contains a series of long-overdue reforms that will put consumers — not insurance companies — in charge of their health care.At the Department of Health and Human Services, we’re charged with leading the implementation of these reforms. That’s why our department has been working around the clock since March with partners in…
Obama Gives Insurers a Stern Warning
Sack & Stolberg, New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama, whose vilification of insurers helped push a landmark health care overhaul through Congress, plans to sternly warn industry executives at a White House meeting on Tuesday against imposing hefty rate increases in anticipation of tightening regulation under the new law, administration officials said Monday.The White House is concerned that health insurers will blame the new law for increases in premiums that are intended to maximize profits rather than covering claims. The administration is also closely watching investigations by a number of states into…
Democrats Won’t Pass Budget in 2010
If You Can’t Budget, You Can’t Govern
Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
“If you can't budget, you can't govern,” Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., proclaimed in 2006 when the House GOP leadership chose to dispense with passing a budget resolution.Now that the Dems run the House, Spratt is chairman of its Budget Committee and the April 15 deadline for passing a budget resolution is a niggling detail, easily ignored. House Democrats have decided to not even try to pass a budget resolution before this fiscal year expires on Sept. 30 — and may well delay passage until after the November elections.
