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TMC News, Apr 23, 2009
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today kicked off a series of roundtable discussions on comprehensive health care reform with a conversation among health care stakeholders on how to lower costs and improve quality in the way care is delivered to patients.
California HealthLine, April 15, 2009
Many hospitals and drugmakers are raising prices on their products and services to reinforce their earnings, highlighting the obstacles the Obama administration and Congress face as they work to rein in health care costs and expand health insurance coverage, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Nation, April 9, 2009-04-24
OntheEarthProduction : Noam Chomsky explains the lag between public will to de-privatize healthcare and political plans to implement a new system.
LA Times, April 8, 2009
People are cutting back on routine screenings and examinations designed to protect their health, Southern California doctors and dentists say.
NY Times, April 7, 2009
A new public plan - to offer consumers greater choice, keep the private plans honest and restrain the relentless growth in health care costs - seems worth trying
Families USA, April 2, 2009
Approximately 12.1 million Californians—37.4 percent of residents under age 65—were uninsured at some point in time during 2007-2008, according to a report released today by the health consumer organization Families USA. In fact, 9.3 million of those uninsured Californians, 76.9 percent of the total, were uninsured for six months or more during that time.
LA Times, April 1, 2009
At a time when much of the nation's economy is on life support, the giant health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente opened a state-of-the-art, $600-million hospital in Hollywood recently, a feat that illustrates the vitality of the healthcare sector and of Kaiser itself.
(LAT, Mar. 26)
A couple retiring this year needs about a quarter of a million dollars to cover medical expenses, a new study reports.
(NYT, Mar. 09)
In its struggle to stay afloat, General Motors has been pushing the United Auto Workers for concessions on financing its retiree health care plan - a burden that adds up to $50 billion. But any resolution may depend on the Obama administration, as it figures out how to keep G.M. from falling apart.
(New Yorker, Jan. 26)
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. The Canadians had stories like the 1946 Toronto Globe and Mail report of a woman in labor who was refused help by three successive physicians, apparently because of her inability to pay.
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With escalating health care costs threatening members’ medical benefits, the Guild is considering other options, including a move to the CalPERS health care program. Below is information on CalPERS, how various member groups would be impacted by such a move, and why we need to make a decision soon.
