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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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Oct21

Franken-Bill – A Halloween fright?

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: October 21, 2009
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

Like Dr. Frankenstein up in his castle, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) are working with Obama Administration officials (including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) behind closed Capitol doors to cobble together a new health reform bill out [...]

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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.
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Jul07

To deal or not to deal … on health care

By Neil Trautwein, VP, Health Care | Published: July 7, 2009
Posted in Health Care | Public Policy

It seems like every day brings another industry to heel in the health reform debate.  Doctors, hospitals, insurers and drug makers have all signed on (with caveats and exceptions) with the Obama Administration to help contribute to the massive cost of financing reform.  Reform costs might well run somewhere between $1 trillion to $3 trillion [...]

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