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Wal-Mart backs employer mandates for health insurance

by: Grant Huang Jul 1, 2009

In a surprise move, the retail giant Wal-Mart says it supports government mandates on employers to either provide health insurance or directly defray the costs to workers. Wal-Mart has taken considerable heat in the past for providing poor employee benefits, including accusations of skimping on health care benefits. This idea of "employer mandates" was one of the more controversial components of the comprehensive health reform package currently under hot debate in Congress.

Arguments over public plan heat up House hearing

by: Grant Huang Jun 25, 2009

Should a health reform package include a government-backed public insurance plan? The question of the so-called "public option" has clearly become the greatest obstacle to passing a bipartisan health reform package.

AAFP responds to Senate HELP committee on reform

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jun 23, 2009

The American Accademy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has outlined where it stands on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee's health reform bill titled the Affordable Health Choices Act.

McAllen, Texas docs want to talk with Obama

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jun 22, 2009

Physicians from the town profiled in a recent issue of The New Yorker are visiting our nation's capital June 22 to discuss their struggles in providing quality health care. A news conference with the physicians from southern towns located near the Mexican border is being organized by the AMA.

No chatter on potential CMS administrators

by: CHARLES FIEGL Jun 19, 2009

We're past mid-June and there's still no word on who will be President Barack Obama's CMS administrator. A look back at the previous administrations shows Obama is late when compared to his last two predecessors:

President Clinton's appointee Bruce Vladeck took office in May 1993
President Bush's appointee Thomas Scully took office in May 2001

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