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- Health Reform Takes Yet Another Step Forward 10:34am Nov 2
- House Bill ‘Expands Coverage… While Reducing Deficits’ 9:21am Nov 2
- What Makes the House Health Reform Bill So “Stellar” 2:54pm Oct 29
Community Health Centers
House passes health reform bill: "It
provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans. It offers everyone,
regardless of health or income, the peace of mind that comes from
knowing they will have access to affordable health care when they need
it," said Rep. John Dingell, the 83-year-old Michigan lawmaker who has
introduced national health insurance in every Congress since succeeding
his father in 1955.
Source: apnews.myway.com
House narrowly passes landmark health care bill
Community Health Centers Before you start your weekend, please contact your U.S. House Representative and ask them to vote YES on HR 3962, the House health reform bill. Community Health Centers have $12 billion at stake in this bill. Connect with your House Member using the toll free advocacy hotline: 1-866-456-3949. For background talking points and to send an email, visit: http://bit.ly/24OgHx
Community Health Centers
Check out ChesPenn Health Services, Inc.'s Facebook photo album of a New Access Point grand opening in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, funded by ARRA.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11
Our Grand Opening Event at Upper Darby was a great success-- community leaders and advocates joined local and state legislators to share a few words, to take a tour of the site and to learn more about the services ChesPenn has to offer!
Photos:38
Source: www.cqpolitics.com
The House is moving toward a floor vote Saturday on its big health care overhaul, after Democratic leaders worked to nail down votes from some of their members who want stronger anti-abortion language in the bill.
Source: bit.ly
You hear over and over, 'people need access to health care' and 'we're the only industrialized country that doesn't provide health care for all.' I take issue with the premise of these statements. ...
by Kaitlin McColgan Last week, the House Democratic Leadership released their “blended” health reform bill, whichincludes the work of the three House committees of jurisdiction and the results of months of negotiations behind the scenes. Re...
By: NACHC Staff A brief on the House bill by theCenter for Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that the legislation would improve coverage and affordability while slowing cost growth and instituting important insurance market reforms...
By Alexandra Sange In case you haven’t checked the news today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the completion of major negotiations on the House health reform bill and released the product of those efforts – the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962). Th...
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Source: silverbuzzcafe.com
“It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.” - Jean Nidetch - An overweight New York housewife with a self-confessed obsession for eating cookies.
By Alexandra Sange The public option, the exchange, the mandates – health care reform discussions have kept a tight focus on the (new) things Congress would create in various health reform bills. ...
By John Sawyer Last week, a targeted group of health center advocates from across the country came to Washington for quick “fly-in” meetings with key members of the U.S. Ho...
Zach Rosen
I am the Medical Director of the Montefiore Family Health Center in the Bronx, an FQHC, interested in knowing if there is a national listserv made up of Community Health Center Medical Directors. Please advise.
Thank you.
Zach Rosen, M.D.
By John Sawyer As Congressional leaders in both the House and Senate hash out final versions of health reform legislation for each chamber to consider next month, health centers are at the heart of proposals to expand access, improve quality and control costs...
Source: bit.ly
The Rockford Register Star in Illinois carried a wonderful opinion piece by editor Chuck Sweeny in which Sweeny touted the cost-effectiveness of Community Health Centers.
Source: bit.ly
When I was a medical student in the early 1980s, I worked one summer in the community health center La Clinica del Pueblo de Rio Arriba, located in the mountains of New Mexico.
