Health Plan Used by U.S. Is Debated as a Model
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Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of uninsured Americans, such a plan would be unlikely to cut costs.
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Supporters of Tennessee&#39;s plan to cut spending on its expanded Medicaid program believe it could be a model for other states fighting rising health-care costs.
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So what do Americans want when it comes to health care? Two things, according to a citizens group created by Congress: protection for all from high medical expenses and guaranteed coverage for specific checkups and treatments.
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It&#39;s beginning to look a lot like Canada as far as Americans&#39; opinions about health-care reform and their prescription shopping habits.
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President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, both have plans to lower rising health care costs and broaden health insurance coverage for Americans, but their visions would take health care in two different directions.
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.
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The health care debate in this year&#39;s presidential contest has been largely boiled down to an argument over degree: Democrat John F. Kerry proposes an ambitious, costly expansion of health
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The debate in Washington, DC, has started over the reformation of Social Security. The 1935 plan of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is a safety net Americans have come to depend on.
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President Bush charged on Thursday that Democrat John Kerry&#39;s health care plan would give the government sweeping powers to decide &quot;who gets the coverage and how much
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Many people agree that America&#39;s health-care system needs fixing. Few agree on how to fix it. During last week&#39;s debate and in a flurry of political ads that will become more intense as the Nov.
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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new. For a decade, virtually the entire political class and opinion elites have said our health care is not ...
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By ANNE SAILE If you&#39;re following the health care policy debate, yo. bly got a sore neck. Some say we&#39;re living in the best of times.
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Democrats have made it clear: They don't support recommendations from President Bush that would shave an estimated $77 billion from government health programs for seniors and the poor. But Bush doesn't need lawmakers' support for some of the changes that he wants to make to Medicare and Medicaid. He could get about $23 billion in savings over the next five years by issuing new federal regulations.
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The 2 major Presidential candidates were asked to answer the question, &quot;How would you ensure access to health care for the citizens of the United States?
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction &#151; the state is expanding its role and, with reliance on the private sector, aiming to provide affordable health insurance for all 138,000 residents now without it.
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In debates about drug importation and the distribution of flu vaccines Sunday, the nation&#39;s largest physician organization argued health care is more than a free-enterprise venture.