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The federal government would create a public health-insurance provider under a health-care reform plan agreed to Thursday by a group of key Senate Democrats, including Sen.

One of the principal authors of health care legislation taking shape in the House accused drug companies and other medical providers Wednesday of stealing, and said they are now offering concessions in the hopes the bill that emerges will not demand too much of them.

Now this is an Independent. Sanders talks to Ezra . The Coalition of the Willing sounds a bit strange to me.

President Obama reiterated his call to adjust Medicare reimbursement rates as a part of his broad push for health reform in a meeting with nine reporters, including writers from local newspapers, Wednesday.

Lest we forget, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act was signed into law by President Bush in December 2003, after passage through Congress by a razor thin margin.

Published in the July 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the study also found that seniors who had relatively good drug benefits prior to enrolling in Medicare Part D spent somewhat more on prescriptions and, at the same time, increased their spending on other medical care services.

With 60 million enrollees, Medicaid dwarfs other insurance programs, including its cousin, Medicare, which covers 44 million elderly and disabled people.

Main Category: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Also Included In: Seniors / Aging Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP The drug industry began ramping up its lobbying efforts in 2003, when Medicare Part D began, and now is targeting Democrats.

Five years ago, Wal-Mart led the "not-me coalition." The name of the game was ensuring that most of its employees' health-care costs landed on other shoulders.

Reports that China has asked for a discussion about reserve currencies at next week's expanded Group of Eight summit in Italy [ID:nL1293071] has added to confusion about whether the country wants to dethrone the dollar from its status as the world's sole reserve currency.

Think your bus fare is already expensive? Think again. The Metropolitan Transit System is increasing fares starting July 1. How much, you ask? Adult monthly pass holders will now pay $72; $36 for kids and students, and $18 for seniors/disabled/Medicare passengers.

A study of a prescription drug plan in Pennsylvania finds that many seniors benefiting from Medicare's new drug program are ending up with lower hospital costs.

Eastern Maine Health Systems is taking over operations of Down East Community Hospital in Machias.

The fate of White House and congressional efforts to overhaul the nation's health care system is likely to depend on the price tag, but there's no precise, reliable way to estimate the cost.

ANNANDALE, Va. a ' At an emotional forum in Virginia, President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday and vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation's health care system.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the administration will rescind all or part of three Medicaid regulations that were previously issued and delay the enforcement of a fourth regulation.

Sen. Herb Kohl said Monday that the Marshfield Clinic's level of patient care, costs and constant push to move medicine forward, make it an example for a nation, and government, debating major health care reform.

An estimated 28 million Americans suffer from hearing loss. Yet just one in five of them wears a hearing aid.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. , which has operations in New Mexico, has more advice for health care reformers in Washington.

Among developed nations, our health care system costs the most per capita but the United States is 37th in the delivery of health care among developed nations.