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Proposals May Limit Insurance Choices And Squeeze Some Middle Earners
"President Obama and leading Democrats have stressed that people who like their employer-sponsored insurance would be able to keep it, under a health care overhaul. But they haven"t emphasized the flip side: That people who don"t like their coverage might have to keep it," Kaiser Health News reports. "Under the main health bills being debated in Congress, many people with job-based insurance could find it difficult to impossible to switch to health plans on a new insurance exchange, even if the plans there were cheaper or offered better coverage. The restrictions extend to any government-run plan, which would be offered on the exchange." But "there are a few exceptions: Workers would be allowed to buy insurance through the exchange if their job-based coverage gobbled up too much of their incomes or was too skimpy. Also, under the House proposal, people could get insurance through the exchange if they paid their entire premiums - a cost that would be prohibitive for many workers."

UK Patients To Benefit From Access To Innovative Lung Cancer Treatment
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have today published their
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Senate Bill To Protect Patients' Healthcare By Amending Medicare Coverage
The U.S. Senate has introduced a bill, S. 1221, "The Medicare Prompt Pay Correction Act," a companion bill to H.R. 1392, which was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and currently has 45 co-sponsors.
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Senate Finance Dems Back Public Plan, Blue Dogs Back Away

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee expects the Senate"s health care overhaul proposal to include a public health insurance plan, Dow Jones Newswire reports, adding that Baucus was "following the lead of President Obama and drawing a line in the sand on the controversial issue." The President strongly supported the public option in a letter to senators Wednesday. Members of the Finance Committee have been ""really working together on a bipartisan basis," [Baucus said,] but fissures on the public plan were tough to ignore," Dow Jones reports. "Despite a growing partisan gulf on the issues of a public option and an employer mandate, the Senate Finance Committee appears to be moving full speed ahead on its version of the health legislation" (Yoest, 6/4). In announcing his expectations for the public option, Baucus said the "government"s thumb" would be "very, very light," Modern Healthcare reports, suggesting that the plan would operate more like a private insurer (DoBias, 6/4). The Blue Dog coalition, a voting block of fiscally conservative House Democrats, said Thursday they would only support a public plan if it is restricted to operating in a manner similar to private insurance plans, CQ Politics reports. "Among their requirements: The public plan must negotiate payment rates with providers; participation in the plan must be voluntary for both providers and patients; premiums and copayments under the plan must pay for its operations; and the plan must follow the same actuarial standards and regulations required of private insurers ... Politically, the Blue Dogs" document sets the coalition"s 51 members squarely at odds with a group of 78 liberals in the House who have cosponsored legislation John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., that would expand Medicare to all Americans and outlaw most private insurance" (Wayne 6/4). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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