Billy Tauzin, the drug industrys top lobbyist, and Ron Pollack, one of the lefts leading advocates for universal coverage ... said the alliance of seemingly disparate groups is finding common ground, and they suggested a big announcement would be coming soon.
Tauzin and Pollack emphasized the importance of the stakeholder agreements that coverage should be universal and that it should build on two of the pillars of U.S. health care, the employer-based health insurance system and safety net programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP. Pollack said the agreement to be announced by the 20 groups would go beyond the three elements of universal coverage, prevention and strengthening public programs. The 20 organizations in the dialog group are AARP, the American College of Physicians, the American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Americas Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association, the AMA, the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association, AdvaMed, the BlueCross BlueShield Association, the Business Roundtable, the Catholic Health Association, Families USA, the Federation of American Hospitals, the Healthcare Leadership Council, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the Service Employees International Union and the U.S. Chamber of Comm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:289961 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
