WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2010.  With the health care reform proposals currently moving through Congress expected to provide health coverage for over 30 million additional Americans, one aspect of health care reform that deserves further examination is how reform will affect the health care workforce. Today, the Center for American Progress[Read More…]

From The Nation: “They’ll send me to jail if I don’t sign up for Obama’s health care,” an 89-year-old woman said at my family holiday gathering last week. She was agitated and angry. “Imagine sending someone to jail – at my age!” Even the Republicans in the room rushed to[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2010. A year ago, when I took office in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, I promised you two things. The first was that there would be better days ahead. And the second was that the road to recovery would be long, and[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2010.  A new report being released today by the Center for American Progress and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California shows that health care reform will create up to 4 million more jobs than would be created without reform. Read the full[Read More…]

Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2010.  Robert Reich, Rep. Joe Courtney, and Economic Policy Institute’s Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens have reviewed and refuted “facts” regarding the so-called “Cadillac” tax in the health insurance reform debate: As the national wrestling match over the future of the nation’s health care system moves to its[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2010.  Today, more than 750 elected officials, faith, labor, and nonprofit leaders across the country sent a letter to President Obama and Congress calling for strong affordability protections for low- and middle-income Americans in final health reform legislation. Signers of the letter include: Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 6, 2010.  As the House and Senate begin work to merge their respective health care reform bills, AARP CEO A. Barry Rand today sent a letter on behalf of the association’s nearly 40 million members to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, outlining[Read More…]

CHICAGO, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2010.   Nearly 1.1 million uninsured Illinoisans and 30 million people across the nation are on track to gain access to quality, affordable healthcare coverage as a result of the historic reform bill passed by the U.S. Senate last month, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said today.[Read More…]

Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2009.  AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement regarding the Senate’s passage of health insurance reform legislation: “In the face of inexcusable partisanship, obstruction and gamesmanship, it is remarkable that Majority Leader Reid was able to move a health care bill through the United States Senate. [Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2009.  Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that portions of his bipartisan legislation to increase awareness, education and research into congenital heart disease – a rapidly growing national health problem – were included in the health care reform bill passed by the Senate.  The[Read More…]