Yesterday a group of 11 freshmen Democratic senators released a package of amendments designed to strengthen payment reforms in Medicare and Medicaid, expand the scope of reforms to include the public and private sector, and reduce the legal and administrative barriers to high quality care.
You can watch highlights from the press conference in the video on the right (Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) claims the amendments are to the legislation what the iPhone is to cellphones), and read a section-by-section summary of the proposals here.
Health CEOs for Health reform announced its support for the amendments, as has a long list of stakeholders including AARP, AFL-CIO, National Partnership for Women and Families, Small Business Majority, and the experts at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. See the full list from Sen Warner’s website after the break:
AARP
Business Roundtable
Safeway
AFL-CIO
National Partnership for Women and Families
Center for American Progress
Healthcare Leadership Council
Catholic Healthcare West
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association
Carilion Clinic
David Cutler (Harvard Economist)
Consumers Union
Small Business Majority
Wal-Mart
Kelly Services International
Intel
US PIRG
Better Health Care Together
Brookings
Pacific Business Group on Health
Quadgraphics
Corporate Health Care Coalition
Denver Health
Virginia Mason
Billings Clinic
U of Wisconsin Hospitals
Group Health Cooperative
Ascension
Physician Health Partners
Health Grades
Gunderson
National Community Pharmacists Association.
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