Posted by Admin | 7:55 AM

President-Elect Obama, and about every candidate for Congress, has said he wants to change the partisan tone in Washington. Obama, the Democ...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Plan

Posted by Admin | 9:01 PM

258 House and 57 Senate Democrats make it almost certain that major health reform will be passed. Right?Actually, that was the number of Dem...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Plan

Posted by Admin | 9:00 AM

Physicians are facing a 10% Medicare fee cut on July 1st, a total of 15% in cuts on January 1, 2009, a cumulative total of 20% on January 1,...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Primary Care Crisis

Posted by Admin | 2:00 PM

For some time I have been saying that we are about to have a "food fight" between health care providers over who will sustain Medi...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

President Bush is calling for $560 billion in cuts from Medicare over the next decade.He would make these cuts by reducing the payments doct...

Labels: Bush Health Plan, Congressional Agenda, Medicare, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 5:00 AM

See the prior post reviewing his 2007 speech. You won't be able to tell the difference between this year and last.President Bush's 2...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Health Care Reform

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

Here is what President Bush had to say about health care in his January 2007 State of the Union Address:A future of hope and opportunity req...

Labels: Bush Health Plan, Congressional Agenda

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

The highly profitable Medicare Advantage business is vulnerable to payment cuts to HMOs.Any of you that read this blog know that I have been...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 12:01 PM

The Budget agreement, SCHIP, the Medicare Physician Fee Cut, and Medicare Advantage HMO payments.For months, I have been telling you four th...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, S-CHIP

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

David Whelan was kind to point out a great story he just did at Forbes.com on the Stark anti-kickback laws and the bans on provider "se...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

With the Congress set to come back to attempt to break the budget impasse in the few weeks before the holidays, many in this town are ready...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, S-CHIP

Posted by Admin | 9:00 AM

I call your attention to a column this morning by the Washington Post's David Broder.He tells us that there will be an important Senate ...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare

Posted by Admin | 8:30 AM

President Bush just made a statement on the SCHIP bill and the upcoming 2008 budget votes. Standing in front of the White House with the Rep...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, S-CHIP

Posted by Admin | 11:30 AM

As the year winds down, the Congress must deal with the scheduled January 2008 9.9% Medicare physicians fee cut. Both Democrats and Republi...

Labels: Congressional Agenda, Medicare, Medicare Advantage