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…]
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Statement from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on House Passage of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2009. “Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to give America’s college students the biggest increase in financial aid since the GI Bill. The bill will guarantee increases for the Pell Grant program for the 2010-11 year and beyond. It will overhaul federal student loans to make[Read More…]
Legislation Introduced to End Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurers
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…]
45,000 Excess Deaths Annually Linked to Lack of Health Insurance: Harvard Study
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…]
Presidential Memorandum Concerning Medical Liability Reform
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…]
The New Numbers – Health Insurance Reform Cannot Wait
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…]
PSAE Scores Soar at Rich East High School, Top District 227
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The sonic boom heard over Park Forest recently had nothing to do with US Air Force military aircraft. It was one of the many after effects following the release of the Prairie State Achievement {PSAE} Test Scores, which showed soaring improvements from Rich East students. Over the[Read More…]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan Designates 314 Schools as 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools
URL to list of Blue Ribbon Schools updated at 9:20 p.m. on September 15 Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2009. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced 314 schools as 2009 National Blue Ribbon Schools. Secretary Duncan was joined by Maryland State Superintendent Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick, Montgomery County Board of[Read More…]
Uncertainty About Health Care Increase Among Seniors and Young Adults
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…]
Michelle Malkin and the Anatomy of the 2 Million Protester Lie
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…]
