• Congress Approves $3.5 T Spending Plan "Paving the Way" for President's Goals, But Many Hard Healthcare Reform Decisions Loom; CMS Announces Medicare Advantage Cuts; Beneficiaries Have Trouble Finding Physicians Accepting Medicare; Many Medicare Patients Are Rehospitalized Within Short Period, Study Finds (04/07/09)
  
  

• Congressional Budget Committees Approve Leaner Versions of President’s Spending Plan, Full Senate and House Votes Expected This Week; Two Major Insurers Offer to Drop Higher Rates for Some With Histories of Prior Illness; Adoption of HIT in Hospitals Lags Behind Expectations (03/31/09)
  
  
• Policymakers Face Differences Over Healthcare Reform and How to Achieve It; President Confirms Commitment to Reform Despite Worse than Anticipated Budget Projections; Two Powerful Unions Join Forces to Push for Health Reform; Administration Officials Make Health Appointments (03/24/09)
  
  
• Obama Names FDA Chief and Deputy; Omnibus Federal Spending Package Funding Health and Other Departments Gets Senate Approval and Presidential Signature; Rising US Healthcare Costs Put US at Competitive Disadvantage, New Study Finds; To Help Pay for Reform, Obama May Support Taxing Some Employee Health Benefits (03/17/09)
  
  
• At "Healthcare Summit" Obama Promises Openness to Alternatives; House Extends Visa Waiver for Foreign MDs Working in Underserved Parts of US; President Lifts Stem Cell Ban (03/09/09)
  
  
• President Proposes Budget Including $634 B To Cover Uninsured and, Among Other Things, to Avert Scheduled Medicare Physician Pay Cut; Nominates Health Secretary and Chief of White House Office for Health Reform; Prepares for This Week's "Healthcare Summit" (03/03/09)
  
  

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