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On January 19th, 2010, 675 businesses sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid asking them to step back from the health care bills they passed and return to the basics of health reform.

To read the complete letter, Click Here.

Tags: businesses, Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi

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Republican Governors: Health Care Bills Omit Reform

Twenty Republican governors and governors-elect sent a letter to Congressional leaders today urging them to refocus and pass “meaningful health care reform, not hastily prepared partisan legislation which omits reform and saddles American taxpayers for generations to come.”

“Governors of both parties have said for months how bad this bill is for the states and our nation,” said RGA Chairman Haley Barbour. “Now is the time for leaders in Congress to finally listen and restart this process so they can get health care reform right.”

The governors criticized the lack of transparency in the legislative process and called the current health care bills “a lost opportunity to improve the lives of Americans, create a sustainable system of health care and help stabilize both our state and national economies.” (more…)

Tags: health reform, Republican Governors, RGA

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January 5, 2010

House vs. Senate Bill Comparison

As Heritage experts have pointed out, there are major differences between the Senate and House Health Reform Bills. The Tri-Committee House Staff recently compiled a document highlighting the major differences, entitled “House-Senate Comparison of Key Provisions”, which can be found here.

Tags: House health care bill, senate health care bill

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Key Documents

December 14, 2009

Letter from 12 Democrats Opposed to Medicare Buy-In

Click here to read the letter from 12 Democratic senators expressing their opposition to a Medicare buy-in proposal if it uses current Medicare reimbursement rates.

Tags: Democrats, Medicare

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December 11, 2009

CMS Analysis on Senate Bill

Richard Foster, Chief Actuary of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), recently released analyses on the effect and impact of the proposed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009″ (Senate Health Bill, HR 3590).

For the analysis on estimated financial effects of the bill, click here.

For the analysis on estimated effects on Medicare, click here.

Tags: CMS, HR 3590, Senate Health Bill

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November 20, 2009

In Pictures: Size and Weight of Reid Health Bill Breaks All Records

House and Senate Democratic leaders are breaking records left, right and center with every new version of Obamacare they roll out. But if you thought they’d be competing to provide better methods for reforming the health care system, you were wrong. Instead, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are duking it out for who can write the biggest and bloated bill that will actually bend the cost curve up. Senator Reid holds the record at a whopping 2,074 pages.