Health

Giant leap for health care

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After generations of work, and nearly one full year of public debate, health care reform took one giant leap forward with President Obama’s signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, and a package of fixes to the new legislation on March 30.

Health care reform: good for consumers and America

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Health care reform The lack of comprehensive health care coverage is America’s albatross – it makes our businesses less competitive and our workers less healthy. We need to put partisan concerns aside and work NOW to ensure that the system is reformed. The cost of doing nothing is unthinkable.

NCL urges Congress to rethink health reform language on biologics

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The National Consumers League has sent a letter to Congressional leaders expressing concerns with the current generic biologics language included in the health reform package. Improving access to life-savings medicines must remain the top priority at this historic moment of healthcare reform, and the current biologics language, which would grant an unprecedented 12-year period of monopoly protection to the most expensive medicines, falls short of that goal.

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