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HEALTH CARE BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS HEAT UP

Published on Tue May 05, 2009

Home care providers hope for positive provisions in imminent congressional health care reform package. Whether the coming health care reform battle will help or hurt home care providers may soon be revealed. Members of Congress are working fast and furiously on health care-related legislation. In addition to President Obama's 2010 budget proposal and the Senate Finance Committee's health care options series of papers (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XVIII, No. 19, p. 148), Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is now spearheading a health care reform plan that is expected to have wide influence. Kennedy and Senate Finance chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) met with the president June 2 to discuss overhauling the health care system, notes the New York Times. Kennedy's plan, advanced in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, contains provisions that affect home care, notes the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. It hopes to curb costs by focusing [...]
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