The Politics of Health Care : Quotable

Mammography and the Right to Choose

Frank Irving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:00 GMT

Guest commentary from Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, a daughter, a sister and a nurse. I am also a survivor. At the age of 43 a routine screening mammogram picked up an abnormality in my left breast that turned...(read more)

What PAWA Would Mean to Employers

Frank Irving — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:38:00 GMT

The Protecting America's Workers Act of 2009, if passed by Congress, would dramatically alter the regulatory regime. Guest commentary from Eric J. Conn and Robert C. Gombar, partners in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, based in Washington,...(read more)

Harvard Research Reveals Startling Stats on Veterans

Frank Irving — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:57:00 GMT

Guest commentary from Physicians for a National Health Program , an organization of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer national health insurance. A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates that 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age...(read more)

Reform is Historic; Price Tag Could be, Too

Frank Irving — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:32:00 GMT

Guest commentary from David St. Clair, founder and CEO of MEDecision, a provider of collaborative health care management solutions. I felt the health care reform news out of Washington last week was decidedly mixed. For those of us who have advocated...(read more)

Health Care Reform

Frank Irving — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:10:00 GMT

Guest commentary by Ward Keever, executive director of executive services for CTG HealthCare Solutions. Mr. Keever serves on ADVANCE's editorial advisory board. The hot topic for this summer has been health care reform. It has consumed our Congress as...(read more)

President Spends a Third of His Time on Health Care

Frank Irving — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:12:00 GMT

There's no denying the importance of health care reform within President Barack Obama's agenda. In a July 28 interview with Time magazine's Karen Tumulty, the president said that in the last two to three weeks, he's been spending at least a third of his...(read more)

What Women Need

Frank Irving — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:00 GMT

Guest commentary by Sabrina Corlette, director of health policy programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families In the halls of Congress, in the media, in the coffee shops and restaurants of Washington, D.C. -- health care reform is dominating...(read more)

Cross Your Fingers for Health Care Reform

Bob Mitchell — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:55:00 GMT

Keep your fingers crossed on health care reform, because a report out today, says that (some) funding in President Obama’s stimulus package might actually be in jeopardy:

“Senate Democrats have vowed to strip those measures from the bill. But now moderate senators, including some Democrats, uneasy with the size of the package are considering trimming one of Obama’s top priorities: providing seed money for doctors and hospitals to begin computerizing patient records, a first step in broader reforms he plans to offer on health care,” a report by Jeanne Cummings at Politico said.