Tag Archives: health care

Mar04

Finding the root of all health care evil

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: March 4, 2010
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

President Obama’s speech today to a hand-picked audience of camera-friendly white coats was clearly intended to stoke the fires needed to push health care reform legislation across the finish line. There was not much there that was actually substantively new. I’m not sure that the loyal opposition – or general public for that matter – [...]

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Feb24

The health reform summit we need versus the summit we will get

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: February 24, 2010
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

President Barack Obama, along with select members of his Administration, the bipartisan leadership of both the House and Senate, and key committee leaders, will gather tomorrow at Blair House (across Lafayette Park from the White House) for a one day summit ostensibly intended to rekindle a bipartisan flame for health care reform. Every protocol and detail [...]

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Jan22

Mr. Brown comes to Washington – now what?

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: January 22, 2010
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

Scott Brown’s election to fill the remainder of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s term has blown conventional wisdom out of the water and thus has set health reform on a very different course. Health care reform will either come back down to earth or it won’t happen at all. Congratulations to Senator-elect Brown and welcome [...]

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Jan09

Everything (and anything) NRF

By Sarah Rand, Director, NRF | Published: January 9, 2010
Posted in Events

With the ink still wet on the signs being hung in the Crystal Palace at the Jacob Javits Center, I’m sitting in the middle of the Annual Convention and thinking about the rest of the year, not the next few days.  Why?  Because I’m sitting smack in the middle of Everything NRF – the place [...]

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Nov24

How to be pro-health care reform and against the Reid bill

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: November 24, 2009
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

I’ve heard some criticism recently on our supposed “opposition to reform.”  Don’t you support health coverage for everyone?  Don’t you believe the Obama Administration’s claims that health reform will lower health insurance coverage costs while preserving everything you like today in health care?
We support universal health coverage for all (in fact we proposed our comprehensive [...]

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Nov15

Ten ways to cut health care costs (with or without Congress)

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: November 15, 2009
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

Congress thus far has huffed and puffed and passed one gargantuan health care bill (H.R. 3962) that spends far too much ($1.05 trillion/ten years or more) but saves far too little on rising health care and health coverage costs. As a matter of fact, it will increase coverage costs for many employers and employees. These [...]

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Oct02

Making policy in the wee hours

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: October 2, 2009
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

The Senate Finance Committee completed work on amendments early this morning (10/2), a little after 2:00am ET.  The completed package will be stitched together next week for the Congress Budget Office (CBO) to provide an official estimate of the cost.  Reportedly work has already started on combining the Finance Committee product (even before it passes [...]

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Sep24

Staying on the safer side of health reform

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: September 24, 2009
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

The legislative process is not for the wary or meek.  Whoever said that watching Congress write legislation is somewhat akin to watching the process of grinding sausage got it pretty much right.  The trick is to figure out whether you are watching the process or actually are in the intake tube.  I suspect that we [...]

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Sep15

Employee Free Choice Act still a threat to retailers

By Rob Green, VP, Government Relations | Published: September 15, 2009
Posted in Public Policy

The crucial health care debate and the Employee Free Choice Act is on the agenda when President Obama addresses the AFL-CIO today. This speech will come on the heels of yesterday’s address to the group by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, who reaffirmed the Obama Administration’s clear support for card check legislation pending in Congress.
As [...]

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Aug26

Remembering Ted Kennedy: “A true lion in the Senate”

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: August 26, 2009
Posted in @NRF | Health Care | Public Policy

Like many Americans, I was saddened this morning to hear of Senator Edward Kennedy’s death.  Sen. Kennedy (D-MA) – “Ted” or “Teddy” Kennedy to many or most – was a true giant of the U.S. Senate.  I will miss him.
Kennedy’s own words – essentially that we live on past our years in the future we [...]

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