Articles By Author Jeff Emanuel
Articles by Jeff Emanuel
08/06/2009 12:00 AM
A public-interest advocacy organization is calling on all 535 members of Congress to promise they will read and make available to their constituents any ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
The September 2009 issue of Health Care News reports that President Barack Obama and other health care overhaul proponents are criticizing the Congressional ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
A group of four Republicans has submitted a legislative alternative to the Democratic Party’s government-centric health care reform proposals.Sens. ...(read more)
08/01/2009 12:00 AM
The August issue of Health Care News reports on the protests in Green Bay, Wisconsin against President Barack Obama’s health care plan. More than ...(read more)
07/31/2009 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama and key Senate negotiators are considering imposing a new tax on so-called “gold-plated, Cadillac” health insurance policies ...(read more)
07/30/2009 12:00 AM
The health care overhaul bill being debated by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee contains a provision for billions of dollars ...(read more)
07/29/2009 12:00 AM
Who should have the ability to make medical decisions when it comes to your care -- your family doctor or a bureaucrat responsible for nothing more than ...(read more)
07/23/2009 12:00 AM
That sudden jolt just felt by the 40 million uninsured Americans and their supporters was the presidential carpet being yanked out from under their feet, ...(read more)
07/01/2009 12:00 AM
Who should have control over your medical care: your family doctor, or a bureaucrat you’ve never met whose sole job is to look out for the government’s ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted 289-139 to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a taxpayer-funded program providing ...(read more)
03/01/2009 12:00 AM
Nine out of 10 Americans support the ideas behind the Food and Drug Administration’s Critical Path Initiative, a federal program designed to streamline ...(read more)
02/01/2009 12:00 AM
In public appearances since being selected by President-elect Barack Obama to head up the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle has ...(read more)
01/15/2009 12:00 AM
Congress is currently debating legislation that would force Americans to pay billions of dollars to take an unpopular taxpayer-funded program for poor children ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
A relatively unheralded part of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed by Congress in October is a provision for “mental health parity,” ...(read more)
12/01/2008 12:00 AM
Mental health legislation served as the vehicle for the highly publicized $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed by Congress and signed into ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
The number of uninsured U.S. residents dropped by almost two million people in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
In 2006, 47 million people, or ...(read more)
11/01/2008 12:00 AM
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts could be facing a federal lawsuit if it implements a proposal that would force companies with more than 10 employees to ...(read more)
09/01/2008 12:00 AM
Health care experts are jumping to the defense of a new Florida law allowing insurance providers to sell coverage plans free of expensive mandates.
The ...(read more)
09/01/2008 12:00 AM
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) has signed legislation requiring coverage for autism be included in all health insurance policies sold within the state.
The ...(read more)
08/01/2008 12:00 AM
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has signed a bill allowing uninsured Floridians to purchase health insurance plans largely free of expensive, superfluous ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) has signed into law a pair of measures intended to make High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) paired with Health Savings Accounts ...(read more)
06/13/2008 12:00 AM
One of the major causes of high-priced health insurance in the U.S. is the high number of mandatory minimum coverages required by some state governments. ...(read more)
06/01/2008 12:00 AM
A Cook County judge has issued a temporary injunction preventing Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D) taxpayer-funded health care expansion from going into ...(read more)
05/15/2008 12:00 AM
Health Savings Accounts are a way to provide affordable, flexible, consumer-directed health insurance for a population that has a growing need for quality ...(read more)
05/08/2008 12:00 AM
(May 8, 2008 -- Chicago, IL) Today, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) signed House Bill 977 and Senate Bill 383 into law. The legislation pushes Georgia's health ...(read more)
