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With national healthcare reform on the table and a hot debate to boot, it’s often hard to get a handle on what the real issues are. Furthermore, it can be difficult to understand what impact decisions may or may not make for your business and your healthcare coverage. The following links are offered to provide you with quick access to current issues and information.
FACT SHEET:The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program
Source: The White House
A First Look at the Federal Health Law and its Implications for Employers
Source: Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Senate Health Reform Debate Awaits CBO Score And Manager's Amendment
http://www.ahiphiwire.org/News/Default.aspx?doc_id=469059
Source: America's Health Insurance Plans Hi-Wire
Lieberman Poses Senate Health Care Hurdle
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN14111622
Source: Reuters
Employers Shun Health Reform Despite Deal
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B853T20091210
Source: Reuters
House, Senate health care bills grow further apart
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/09/health.care.differences/index.html#cnnSTCText
Source: CNN.COM
Is Congress Giving the States Too Much Power?
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1928943,00.html
Source: Time Magazine
Senate Health Care Bill Misses the Mark
http://www.uschambermagazine.com/article/senate-health-care-bill-misses-the-mark-us-chamber-says?n=w
Source: U.S. Chamber of Commerce
A Comparison Between HR3590 (Senate) and HR3962 (House)
Click here for Word document
Source: The Harding-Lamp Group
The Top 15 Reasons HR 3962 Increases Cost Limits and Kills Competition
Click here for pdf
Source: NFIB
Healthcare Reform 2009
http://www.ilchamber.org/Business_issue_councils/Healthcare/Healthcare_Reform/Healthcare_Reform_2009.html
Source: Illinois Chamber of Commerce
U.S. worker's health costs soaring, studies show
http://www.getechi.com/images/pdfs/reuters091509.pdf
Source: Reuters
'Severe' doc shortage seen hiking wait time
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/view.bg?articleid=1197558
Source: Boston Herald
Watson Wyatt identifies open enrollment benefit trends 2010
http://www.getechi.com/images/pdfs/prnewswire091509.pdf
Source: PR Newswire
Health Care Trends
http://www.plunkettresearch.com/Industries/HealthCare/HealthCareTrends/tabid/294/Default.aspx
Source: Plunkett Research
Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the healthcare issue
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10572/09-16-Proposal_SFC_Chairman.pdf
Source: Congressional Budget Office
Health Reform: Rhetoric and Reality
http://www.chamberpost.com/2009/08/health-reform-rhetoric-and-reality.html
Source:US Chamber of Commerce
Getting Health Reform Right
http://www.chamberpost.com/2009/09/getting-health-reform-right.html
Source: US Chamber of Commerce
Before and After -- Charting the Baucus Bill
http://www.chamberpost.com/2009/09/before-and-after-charting-the-baucus-bill.html
Source:US Chamber of Commerce
The Obama Healthcare Plan
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/health_care/plan/
Source: The White House
Health Insurance Costs
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
Source: National Coalition on Healthcare
What the public really wants on healthcare
http://tcf.org/publications/healthcare/wtprw.healthcare.pdf
Source: The Center for American Progress
The Universal Healthcare Debate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#Debate_in_the_United_States
Source:Wikipedia
Should the Government Provide Free Universal Health Care for All Americans?
http://www.balancedpolitics.org/universal_health_care.htm
Source: Balancedpolitics.org Blog
Study on impact of health reform on business
http://www.academyhealth.org/files/publications/ResearchInsightsHCR.pdf
Source: AcademyHealth
Side-by-side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals
www.getechi.com/files/healthreform_sbs_full.pdf
Source: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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