Bush Health Care Plan Seems to Fall Short
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If the Republican-controlled Congress enacted President Bushâs entire health care agenda, as many as 10 million people who lack health insurance would be covered at a cost of $102 billion
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The entrepreneur who hosted President Bush last week for a roundtable discussion on health care and small business said yesterday that he could barely get a word in as Bush opined on children's health insurance and other health topics.
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President George W. Bush plans to slow the growth in US health-care spending, which reached $1.7 trillion last year, by making workers more responsible for their medical costs.
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If the Republican-controlled Congress enacted President Bush&#39;s entire health care agenda, as many as 10 million people who lack health insurance would be covered at a cost of $102 billion
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Bush and Kerry both talk about providing health care for the uninsured. Here's how they would do it
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Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Congress probably will take its time in considering President Bush's plan for expanding health insurance coverage. Lawmakers, however, are moving more quickly to renew a program that now provides coverage to 6 million people, mostly children.
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WHITE HOUSE More than half of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet is on the way out -- but officials say his second-term makeover hasn&#39;t yet run its course.
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President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry are offering distinct plans to help Americans cope with the rising costs of health care.
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MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for health care spending cuts, including a major five-year reduction in Medicare expenditures to slow the program's annual growth rate from 6.5 percent to 5.6 percent.
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More Americans without insurance and higher costs have thrust the health care issue into the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign but candidates this time are far less ambitious with their plans than in the past.
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The Bush administration's health agenda this year will consist largely of fending off Democratic lawmakers until a new president and Congress take charge
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry blamed President Bush on Thursday for failing to take action that would bring down health-care costs for Americans and help the 5
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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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A major obstacle to the success of the new Medicare law has emerged in recent weeks: Private insurers have told the Bush administration they will not expand their Medicare role
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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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With the new fiscal year just a week away, President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress are far from an agreement on the proper level of spending for myriad federal programs.