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The Alliance for Health Reform’s health insurance policy forum resumed for two additional panels. The first featured policy experts who talked about the challenges facing Medicaid and how be…

Panelists spoke about the pros and cons of giving states more flexibility and power over Medicaid. Representative Brett Guthrie (R-KY) talked about Medicaid and the role of states in adminis…

Members heard from expert witnesses about legislative efforts to fix the sustainable growth rate (SGR), a formula used to determine Medicare payments to doctors.

Medical and health policy experts talked about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Medicare Advantage program, a health plan offered by private companies that contract with Medicare…

Panelists talked about the causes of rising health care costs. Topics included the cost of high-tech medical procedures, chronic disease, life style choices and high-cost patients. They resp…

Dianne Rowland spoke about the demographics of the uninsured population in the United States, the growth of those uninsured, and how various proposals for health care reform could affect the…

A panel discussion was held on uninsured Americans. The economic and demographic factors of the uninsured and other trends in health insurance were discussed.

Staff members representing three committees talked about health care issues that will be on the 109th Congress’s agenda. Topics included Medicare, Medicaid reform, children’s health, private…

The Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a news conference and talked about the results of their study of "Out-of-Pocket Medicare Prescription Drug Costs".

Panleists discussed the health care crisis in the U.S. They spoke about rising health care and prescription drug costs, the high number of uninsured, and strategies for addressing health car…

Generations United, a coalition of 120 groups concerned with U.S. health care, sponsored a conference entitled, “Beyond Medicaid: Building A Health Care System for All Ages.” During the ope…