College Park, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2009 – 11:49 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Maryland! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you, College Park. (Applause.) Thank you so much. It is good to be back at the University of Maryland. (Applause.) I want to start by wishing The Fridge and the Terps good luck[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2009.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Energy and Commerce Committee Vice-Chair Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) today introduced the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, legislation to end the broad antitrust exemption[Read More…]

Lack of health insurance now more lethal (ENEWSPF)– A study published online Thursday estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002. The new study, "Health[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2009. MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SUBJECT: Demonstration Grants for the Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Alternatives to the Current Medical Liability System As part of my Administration’s ongoing effort to reform our health care system, we have reached out to members of[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2009.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new state by state analysis of last week’s U.S. Census numbers regarding the uninsured.  The results are sobering and confirm that health insurance reform cannot wait another year. “These numbers only serve to further confirm a[Read More…]

Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2009.  With intense debate and activism at town hall meetings across the nation last month, Americans’ confidence in their health insurance coverage and ability to access to health care dropped slightly in August. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) fell 1.1[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Blame it on a tweet. It turns out that’s what kicked off the right-wing blogosphere’s comically inept misinformation campaign last weekend to try to swell the size of Saturday’s anti-Obama protest in the nation’s capital, to jack the crowd size up to the wildly inflated —[Read More…]

Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2009.  A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) study published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine shows that a majority of physicians (63 percent) support a health reform proposal that includes both a public option and traditional private insurance. If the additional 10 percent of doctors who[Read More…]

Minneapolis, Minnesota—(ENEWSPF)—September 12, 2009 – 1:00 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, Minnesota!  (Applause.)  Hello, Minneapolis!  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  Are you fired up?  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  AUDIENCE:  Yes we can!  Yes we can!  Yes we can!  (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Thank you,[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2009.  The following is the text of a letter sent by Governor Quinn to the Illinois Congressional Delegation voicing his support for President Obama’s health care reform proposal. September 10, 2009 Dear Member of the Illinois Congressional Delegation: In his speech before a joint session of Congress, President[Read More…]