Q&A with Toby Cosgrove
Dr. Toby Cosgrove talked about his 25-year career at the Cleveland Clinic. He discussed recent remarks by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), among others, regarding the clinic’s upcoming jobs and budg…
1,674 viewsDr. Toby Cosgrove talked about his 25-year career at the Cleveland Clinic. He discussed recent remarks by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), among others, regarding the clinic’s upcoming jobs and budg…
1,674 viewsBusiness owners from around the country and federal officials testified on the impact of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act on small business health insurance exchanges.
1,139 viewsThe Alliance for Health Reform held a panel discussion with health insurance professionals about health care costs. Specifically, panelists asseessed health care price caps and the use of “r…
610 viewsSenators John Hoeven (R-ND) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) spoke at the Washington Ideas Forum about a range of domestic issues, including the Affordable Care Act, immigration, and support for milit…
402 viewsFormer information technology officials testified on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s HealthCare.gov Web site. Karen Evans served in the George W. Bush administration, and Ric…
713 viewsInformation technology officials testified on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s HealthCare.gov Web site. The witnesses were from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,…
3,294 viewsSenator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) spoke to reporters about her bill that would allow some Americans to keep insurance plans that do not meet the minimum required benefits in the 2010 health care …
145 viewsSmall business owners and advocates testified on the employer practice of subsidizing all or a portion of employee health insurance rather sponsoring a health benefits plan.
52 viewsSecretary Kathleen Sebelius updated the committee on the status of fixing the ongoing difficulties with the Affordable Care Act’s HealthCare.gov insurance exchanges. She said many improvemen…
12,658 viewsPanelists talked about some of the challenges facing hospitals.
1,842 viewsTelephone lines were open for viewer reaction to Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius' testimony on the Healthcare.gov Web site problems.
235 viewsHelen Darling and Karen Marlo of the the National Business Group on Health outlined the results, methodology, and sample size of their group’s survey on employee health care benefits, partic…
745 viewsPanelists debated the impact of the Affordable Care Act on competition among health insurance providers. Among the topics they addressed were the operation of health care exchanges, issues o…
856 viewsThe D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument on the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that employer health insurance include coverage for all contraceptive methods. Francis and…
652 viewsDr. Atul Gawande talked about his book Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, published by Metropolitan Books. In his essay collection he wrote about the challenges that confront his prof…
1,343 viewsPresident Obama spoke in Boston’s Faneuil Hall about the health care law. He said that the federal plan mirrors the existing Massachusetts plan. Topics included problems with the Healthcare.…
1,348 viewsMarilyn Tavenner testified about the problems with the release of the Healthcare.gov Web site for the federal health insurance exchange. Ms. Tavenner in her opening statement apologized to u…
12,469 viewsSenator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said the President Obama should ask Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign over the difficulties with the launch of the Healthcare.gov…
260 viewsGovernment contractors testified on their role in building the various components of Affordable Care Act’s online health insurance exchanges, and Healthcare.gov’s subsequent user technical d…
6,152 viewsHealth policy analysts talked about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. They focused on individual states' concerns and other health care issues. They agreed that predicting the s…
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