Health Care Reform Round-Up: CBO Pegs Senate Bill at $849 Billion

by Astrid Fiano, DOTmed News Writer | November 18, 2009

--All the bills under consideration have provisions for preventative services. Preventative services help in diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions, which people of color experience at higher prevalence rates, as well as higher death rates from many of these conditions.

Senator Reid's remarks: http://democrats.senate.gov/multimedia/
And http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=319925

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Information on the Business Roundtable report: http://www.businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/2009.11.11%20Hewitt%202%20Press%20Release_FINAL.pdf

Democratic Senators remarks: http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=319832
And http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=319989&

The First Lady's remarks: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-first-lady-health-insurance-reform-and-older-women

The Kaiser Family Foundation brief: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/8016.cfm

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