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PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:46am
Tue Jan 12, 2010

Health Care Roundup: Finding New Revenue, The Size Of The Exchange

Congress

Final negotiations over a health care bill are continuing in
Washington this week. Lawmakers are working on a tight deadline: If the
bill is to pass before the State of the Union address in February, the
final language would need to be finalized and sent to the ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:29pm
Fri Jan 8, 2010
2 comments

A Small Mental Health Success, But Problems Remain

Health Care

Good news is hard to come by these days at Chicago's mental health clinics. That's why it was encouraging to see Joanna Broder's piece in the Tribune earlier this week about the Community Mental Health Council Inc. on the city's South Side. After losing about $2.3 million ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
12:29pm
Fri Jan 8, 2010

Health Care Round-Up: Dems Debate Revenue Sources, Public Option, Medicaid Expansion

Congress

Now that health care reform has passed in both chambers,
congressional Democrats are beginning to hash out the differences
between the two versions of the bill. To fast track negotiations and
limit the opportunity for obstinate Senate Republicans to gum up the
proceedings...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:00pm
Wed Jan 6, 2010
2 comments

Blue Cross Fights To Keep Charging Women More

Congress

Will men see their insurance rates jump if health care reforms
passes this year? That's what Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
claims. In what they are calling a "detailed actuarial analysis,"
the insurance giant estimates that premiums for younger, healthier men
in the ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
6:53pm
Tue Jan 5, 2010
1 comment

A State-Level Step Toward Health Insurance Reform

State Legislature

Last spring, the insurance industry "used every trick in the book" to try to thwart a set of consumer-friendly reforms -- known as the Health Insurance Consumer Protection Act (HB 3923)
-- that State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) was pushing in the House.
But by assembling ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
12:12pm
Mon Dec 21, 2009

Health Care Reform Survives First Procedural Hurdle

Health Care

Supporters of health care reform can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Late last night, by a 60-40 roll call, the Senate voted to end debate
on the manager's amendment to the Democratic health care bill, the
first of three cloture votes required to pass the historic ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:08pm
Tue Dec 15, 2009

As The Senate Dumps Public Option, Rahm Becomes A Target (UPDATED)

Roland Burris

The public option appears to be dead. In a caucus meeting last
night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) alerted his members
that he did not have enough votes to pass a partial expansion of Medicare, which members had hoped would serve as a public option compromise.&...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
5:15pm
Thu Dec 10, 2009
1 comment

Fox Chicago's Jeffcoat Claims Medicare Is "Bankrupt"

Media

This morning, Republican Rep. Peter Roskam took some time out of his schedule to give the hosts of WFLD's Good Day Chicago his opinion about the current health care negotiations. 
But if they were looking for conservative talking points, perhaps the
producers should ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
3:38pm
Thu Dec 10, 2009
3 comments

IL-SEN: Disagreement Over Bush Tax Cuts, Planned Parenthood Backs Giannoulias

Rep. Choice

The candidates in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary are starting to
differentiate themselves on a few crucial federal issues. One week
after both Cheryle Jackson and David Hoffman expressed skepticism about President Obama's new strategy in Afghanistan, a plan Alexi ...