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Health Care Reform Round Table on Laura Flanders's GritTV

PSN on March 5, 2009 - 9:37am

PSN's Health Care Policy Specialist Adam Thompson participates in a round table discussion on Laura Flanders's GritTv to discuss the prospects for comprehensive health care reform on the eve of President Obama's Health Care Summit.

Washington State Health Care Campaign Highlights Continuing State Action on Reform

Adam Thompson on February 26, 2009 - 1:46pm
This week, the Washington State Senate's health committee approved a bill to achieve health-care-for-all by 2012.  Sponsored by committee Chair Sen. Karen Keiser, SB 5945 as amended combines immediate steps to expand access to coverage and cut administrative costs with a planning process to refine proposals for comprehensive reform by 2012.  This action came as the Seattle City Council and Seattle Post-Intelligencer endorsed national single-payer health care, emphasizing the continuing efforts in states to move forward health care reform.

Health Care for All Update - State Legislation Promotes Priorities for Federal Reform

States aren't waiting on health care reform, and the following just highlights that state initiatives reflect the priorities that federal reform will need to address - a public health care plan option to provide an alternative for consumers, tightened rules around insurance, Rx pricing reforms, and more. State action on health care reform just helps to maintain the drumbeat for federal reform within public opinion and ensure that federal reform includes these and other key priorities.

National state health care expert offers testimony backing Iowa health care coverage partnership program

Austin Guest on February 18, 2009 - 12:49pm
Des Moines, IA - Today, at a hearing of the Iowa State Senates Subcommitteee on Senate File 48, Progressive States Network Senior Health Care Policy Specialist Adam Thompson provided the following written testimony in support of Sen. Jack Hatch's owa Health Care Coverage Partnership Program:

States Advance National Health Care Debate with Key Reforms

Adam Thompson on February 5, 2009 - 11:50am
While the effort for federal health care reform recovers from the withdrawl of former Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle to lead President Obama's health care reform efforts, state legislators are moving forward with a medley of health care bills - both incremental and comprehensive in scope.  These reforms reflect keypriorities for federal reform and can be tapped to bolster the public's support for the federal effort.

SCHIP "Down Payment" on Health Care Reform Is Signed Into Law

Adam Thompson on February 5, 2009 - 10:53am
Calling it "a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American", President Obama signed into law an expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program.  The law, twice vetoed by President Bush, will enable states to expand coverage to 4 million uninsured children by 2013 and maintain coverage for the roughly 7 million currently enrolled in the program.  The law signed by President Obama includes several key advances:

Amidst budget woes, new study points to savings from comprehensive health care reform

Austin Guest on January 29, 2009 - 1:14pm
01/29/2009

Olympia, WA — At a hearing today of the Washington State Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee, the actuarial firm Mathematica Policy Research will present a new study showing that Washington state could cut health care costs from $300 million to $800 million and boost economic activity anywhere between $370 million to $1.6 billion from a range of comprehensive health care reform initiatives proposed last year by state lawmakers.  

Set against the backdrop of devastating budget shortfalls in states and households across the country, the report bolsters the case for national and state health care reform playing a central role in ongoing economic recovery efforts.