Health Change Bulletin

Health Change Bulletin | January 12, 2010 | Volume One Issue Sixteen
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s part of the effort to cover the uninsured, the health reform legislation calls for millions of new beneficiaries to be brought into the Medicaid program. We have a genuine chance to improve their health and reduce spending by requiring comprehensive Medicaid coverage of treatment to help smokers to quit. This includes medication and counseling with no cost-sharing requirements, as the House-passed legislation requires. The Senate bill would mandate such coverage only for pregnant women." Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Health Care Reform And The States
National Center for Policy Analysis, January 11, 2010

Democrats Are Ready to Compromise to Get Health Reform Done
E.J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post, January 11, 2010

Obama Meets Union Leaders Over Healthcare Concerns
Reuters, January 11, 2010

How Would a New Health Insurance Pool Work?
Kim Geiger, The Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2010

Obama Hails Benefits of Health Reform
Jared A. Favole, Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2010

Health Reform, the States and Medicaid
The New York Times, January 9, 2010

Healthcare Reform Can Close the Smoking Gap
Matthew L. Myers, HuffingtonPost.com, January 11, 2010

Meaningful Reform Still Needed
Newt Gingrich, The Washington Post, January 6, 2010

Kansas cuts Medicaid physician pay by 10%
American Medical News, http://twitter.com/amednews, January 11, 2010

Mammogram Limits Face Reversal
Wall Street Journal Health, http://twitter.com/WSJHealth, January 11, 2010

President Signals Flexibility on Health Plan Tax

NYTimes Health, http://twitter.com/nytimeshealth, January 11, 2009

Will Health Reform 'Beat Up' California?

NBC Meet the Press, January 10, 2010

Weekly Address: Health Reform's Benefits in 2010

The White House Blog, January 10, 2010

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