Health System Reform Updates 

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• Your New Health Care System Chart  - prepared by Joint Economic Committee, Republican staff Congressman Kevin Brady & Senior House Republican Senator Sam Brownback - 9/8/2010
• HCMS President William S. Gilmer, MD, speaks about Opportunities for Success - 9/1/10 The Harris County Physician Newsletter
• Implementation Timeline under H.R. 3590 for Provisions that Affect Physician Practices   - 8/23/2010
• Health Reform School - Physician Medicare Fees  - 6/1/2010
• Health Reform School - Small Group Practices  - 6/1/2010
• TMA's Health System Reform Executive Summary - 5/27/2010
• TMA Summary of Health System Reform Bill - 5/2010
• Key Provisions of Comprehensive Health Care Reform Law  - 3/30/2010
• Kaiser Summary of New Health Reform Law  - 3/26/2010
• Health Reform Proposals Being Considered by the 111th Congress  - 3/25/2010
• Implementation Timeline Under HR3590 the Patient Protection Act  - 3/23/2010
• Op-Ed:  Caring for Patients in a Time of Change - 3/25/2010
• Health Bill is Bad Medicine for Texas Patients - 3/21/2010
• Letter to Texas Congressional Delegation regarding House vote this weekend  - 3/19/2010
• Letter to Congress from Governor Rick Perry, Lt Governor David Dewhurst & House Speaker Joe Straus - 3/19/2010
• Medicare Meltdown - 3/3/2010
• The President's Proposal - 2/22/2010
• Dr. Bill Gilmer, HCMS President, interview on Doctors' Health Care Reform 'Wish List' -- 1/20/2010
• HCMS/TMA on Health System Reform - Harris County Physician Newsletter, President's Page 12/1/09
• TMA Leaders Go to Washington - 1/15/2010
• HSR AMA's HR3962 - HR3590 Comparison Chart  - 1/11/2010
• Kaiser House-Senate Bill Comparison  - 1/11/2010
• House and Senate Comparison of Key Proivsions in HSR bills 1-10  1/11/2010
• TMA Reminds Congress What Texas Patients Want in HSR - 12/22/09
• Medicare Fee Cuts Delayed until March - 12/21/09
• Medicare is on Life Support, KHOU news  12/16/09
• Summary of Key Provisions of House & Senate Legislation - prepared by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP  - 11/24/09
• TMA Announces "Senate Health Plan Bad Medicine for Our Patients" - 11/21/09
• John Cornyn letter to Texas Physicians - Reid Bill  - 11/20/09
• House Passes Medicare Fix Bill - 11/19/09
• AMA Substitute Resolution 203: Health System Reform Legislation  - 11/11/09
• Unhappy Docs Push AMA to Drop Support for House Health Bill  - 11/9/09
• House passes health system reform legislation  - 11/7/09
• Republican Alternative to HR3962 - 11/3/09
• Summary of Republican Alternative Health Care Plan - 11/3/09
• Democrats introduce H.R. 3962: Affordable Health Care Act for America (1,990 pages) - 10/29/09
• Detailed Summary of Affordable Health Care for American Act - 10/29/09
• Health Insurance Reform Side-by-side comparison H.R. 3200 - 10/29/09
• America's Affordable Health Choices Act Implementation Timeline - 10/29/09
• Affordable Health Care for America Act Section-by-Section Analysis - 10/29/09
• Immediate Investments on the Road to Reform - 10/29/09
• Topline Changes from introduced Bill to Blended Bill - 10/29/09
• Top 14 Provisions That Take Effect Immediately - 10/29/09
• Top 10 Changes to Health Insurance Reform Bill - 10/29/09
• HR 3961 Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act  - 10/29/09
• John Cornyn letter regarding vote on the SGR formula - 10/21/09
• Congressional Budget Office analysis of  Chairman's Mark  - 10/7/09
• Congressional Budget Office analysis of HR 3200 
• HCMS Medical Legislation Board Comparison of House and Senate HSR Proposals  - 9/29/09
• HCMS Medical Legislation Board Analysis of HR 3200 
• Governor Perry Letter to Committee on Finance - 9/23/09
• Health Reform Senate Finance Committee Letter - 9/21/09
• Preliminary Summary of Selected Items of Senate Finance Health Care Reform Bill  - 9/17/09
• Senate Finance Committee Releases HSR Proposal-America's Healthy Future Act of 2009  - 9/16/09
• Survey Results from House Call Meetings across the state - 9/16/09
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• AMA Defines Seven Health Reform Principles  - 9/15/09
• Lashing Out at the Capitol  - 9/13/09
• Democrats play down public health option  - 9/13/09
• Professional Liability - Lawyers' Call to Arms  - 9/11/09
• TMA Campaigns for Health Reform - 9/10/09
• AMA Reaction to President Obama's address on Health System Reform - 9/9/09
• Framework for Comprehensive Health Reform  - 9/8/09
• Insurance companies dealing with their own health care issues - 8/26/09
• Our Vision for Health System Reform - 8/25/09
• Tylerites Speak Out on Health Care at Public Forum  - 8/21/09
• Health Care Bill's effect on Houston - Channel 26 - 8/19/09
• Houston House Call  - Channel 26, 5 am broadcast - 8/18/09
• Doctors soliciting Houstonians' views on healthcare reform - 8/17/09
• Watch recorded full coverage of the live stream of Houston House Call Meeting - Houston patients and physicians share their likes and dislikes about our current health care system, and offer suggestions about how to improve upon that system. 8/17/09
• House call for doctors on health care  - Channel 13, 10 pm broadcast & video - 8/17/09
• TMA News Advisory: Physicians to Make Houston House Call on Health System Reform - 8/14/09
• Obama's Senior Moment (opinion): Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care  - 8/14/09
• Patients, doctors passionate but calm at health care forum  - 8/13/09
• AMA:  A Look at the Facts on Health Reform  - 8/13/09
• Letter to the Houston Chronicle Editor - Primum non nocere - First, do no harm - 8/7/09
• Side by Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals - 8/5/09
• Take Your Health Care Concerns to the Top - 8/3/09
• A look at health care plans in Congress - 8/2/09
• Fact Check: Distortions rife in health care - 8/2/09
• Healthcare reform looms large in Texas  - 7/30/09
• Physicians To Make Denton House Call on Health System Reform  - 7/29/09
• New AMA Ad Emphasizes Common Ground on Health Reform, Shares Vision to Fix Broken  - 7/28/09
• Get it right, get it done  (opinion) - 7/28/09
• Reducing avoidable hospital readmissions seen as way to cut Medicare costs. - 7/28/09
• Washington Post says health reform should not expand patent exclusively for biologic drugs - 7/28/09
• Drugmakers May Fund $100 Million Ad Campaign on Health Overhaul - 7/28/09
• Emerging Senate healthcare deal omits employer mandate, public option - 7/28/09
• Dr. Betsy McCaughey interview about impact of health reform on elderly: Dr. McCaughey is a health policy expert and former Lt Governor of NY State - 7/27/09
• Meeting of the Minds: The future of Health Care - 7/26/09
• Promises vs Reality - Fox News Video - 7/23/09
• No Health Care Vote from Senate until fall  - 7/22/09
• Doctors Wage War Against Obama's Health Care Overhaul - 7/22/09
• AMA Chief: Health Bill Still In Early Stages - 7/21/09
• White House backs off August health reform deadline  - 7/21/09
• TMA balks at backing Obama healthcare plan, despite AMA endorsement - 7/20/09
• Will Obama's New Health Care Plan Work - 7-17-09
• TMA "deeply troubled" by House Health System Reform Bill - 7/17/09
• AMA Views on House Health Reform Legislation  - 7/16/09
• CBO Says Health Bills Willi Increase Federal Costs - 7/16/09
• HCMS President Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, speaks about "Health System Reform" - 7/15/09 issue of The Harris County Physician Newsletter. 
• Feds strike at Medicare Fraud in Houston area - 7/12/09
• House Democrats Delay Health Bill - 7/10/09
• AMA President, Dr. James Rohack appears on ABC Primetime - 6/25/09
• AMA Commends Bipartisan Effort to Reform Health System - 6/18/09
• Healthcare reform has nation divided (with video - KTRK)- 6/24/09
• Key Health Reform Actions Taken at the 2009 Annual Meeting of AMA House of Delegates - 6/18/09
• AMA Framework for Health Reform - 6/18/09
• AMA Principles for Health Reform - 6/18/09
• TMA's Health System Reform Principles - Texas Medical Association - 06/17/09
• Public Option Not Single-Payer, Obama Says - Texas Medical Association - 06/16/09
• Obama addresses Physicians at AMA Mtg - Transcript of President Obama's remarks - 6/15/09
• Malpractice Issue So Far a Non-Starter on Hill - CQ Politics - 06/15/09
• Doctors’ Group Opposes Public Insurance Plan - The New York Times - 06/10/09
• Sweeping Health Plan is Drafted by Kennedy - The New York Times - 6/6/09 
• Kennedy bill would make employers provide care - My Way News - 6/6/09
• Early Draft of Health Care Overhaul Would Give Government a Greater Role - CQ Politics - 06/05/09
• The Cost Conundrum - The New Yorker - 6/1/09
• AMA: Financing Comprehensive Health Care: Proposed Health Systems Savings- 5/18/09
   - Summary of Major Provisions
   - Comments of the AMA 
• AMA: Expanding Health Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans  - 5/11/09
   - Summary of Major Provisions
   - Comments of the AMA 
• AMA: Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs- 4/29/09
   - Summary of Major Provisions
   - Comments of the AMA
 

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