Articles By Author Joe Emanuel
Articles by Joe Emanuel
18 article(s) found.
08/05/2009 12:00 AM
Senators on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee have revised the Democrats’ health care overhaul bill after an analysis by the nonpartisan ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions have unveiled the first of what is expected to be a series ...(read more)
07/31/2009 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama has joined proponents of a health care overhaul bill in criticizing an official government organization’s assessment of how ...(read more)
07/31/2009 12:00 AM
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on a health care overhaul bill parallel to that proposed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
The Maine House of Representatives has rejected a proposal to allow out-of-state health insurers to sell individual policies in Maine.Supporters of LD 290, ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
Representatives of five major health care trade associations have presented President Barack Obama with a proposal to reduce the growth of health care costs ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
Citing a need to curb childhood obesity, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has signed on as Senate sponsor of a federal bill to require calorie counts ...(read more)
05/01/2009 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama has nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Sebelius ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
All “non-educational” gifts from pharmaceutical companies to doctors are now banned under an ethics policy adopted by the Pharmaceutical Research ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
Health care markets where patients pay directly create price and quality competition, according to a study by Devon Herrick, Ph.D., a senior fellow with ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
The Vermont legislature is considering making cuts to the state’s Catamount Health program, a taxpayer-funded health insurance program for low-income ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
After a lengthy post-election ballot-counting process, the Arizona Secretary of State’s office announced Proposition 101, a groundbreaking initiative ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
A valued Pennsylvania council faces dissolution in June if Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and some members of the state Senate don’t resolve a standoff over ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has unveiled a proposal for overhauling the state’s Medicaid program, altering both its funding and delivery.
“It ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
A senior official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has confirmed the results of an Associated Press investigative report revealing the ...(read more)
01/01/2009 12:00 AM
Voters in Maine will have a slightly smaller tax burden this year after passing a ballot initiative in November repealing a tax increase implemented earlier ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
The correction of an accounting error has allowed Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) to withdraw a controversial proposal to make up a $90 million Medicaid ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
Unemployed Tennesseans are now receiving taxpayer-subsidized insurance benefits as a result of Gov. Phil Bredesen’s (D) decision to expand the state’s ...(read more)
