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Dueling Polls Offer Alternative Reform Opinions

by George Lauer, California Healthline Features Editor November 23, 2011

Two polls released last week offered conflicting views of public opinion on health care reform. Coming in the same week the Supreme Court announced it would hear reform arguments, the polls also raise a couple of questions: How much influence does public opinion have on the Supreme Court? And vice versa?

Health Reform Debate Heats Up During August Recess

by Anthony Wilson, California Healthline Contributing Editor August 12, 2009

As protesters continue to advocate against Democrats’ health reform proposals at town-hall meetings nationwide, lawmakers are using the August recess to dispel misinformation circulating about their health reform plans and introduce reform-related legislation.

State Budget Challenges Loom Over Proposals To Expand CHIP, Medicaid

by Daniel Esquibel, California Healthline Managing Editor July 29, 2009

Members of Congress are debating proposals to expand eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, but governors are harboring concerns about how much the expansions would cost states.  Meanwhile, a House panel held a hearing on rescissions, an issue that isn’t foreign to veteran observers of California health care policymaking.