Headlines en-us http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=89 Officials from a health care advocacy group have presented something of a road map to the state leaders at theMaryland Health Exchange Board, whose members are working to implement the national health care reform law. 11/15/2011 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=88 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false CHARLESTON, W.Va. - With chronically ill West Virginians accounting for at least three-fourths of health spending in the state, coordinating their care can do much to ease the rise in such costs, an Emory University professor told a House-Senate committee studying the issue Tuesday. Kenneth Thorpe, chair of Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, also recommended expanding a diet, exercise and lifestyle program that he said has prevented adult-onset diabetes and can provide similar results against other chronic illnesses. "Both of these things are important capacity-building investments that I think at the end of the day are going to prove to have very substantial dividends," Thorpe told the Joint Committee on Health. 10/13/2011 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=54 West Virginia is taking strong steps to get ready for the new federal health-care reform law, Kathleen Stoll, deputy director of the non-profit Families USA, told a conference of West Virginia health-care workers, policy-makers and advocates Monday. 8/30/2010 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=6 This morning, America's Agenda joined with a broad “National Coalition of Health ReformCoalitions” at a press conference calling on the White House and Congress to continue theirefforts to enact health care reform that Americans need, now, more than ever. 1/27/2010 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=60 America’s Agenda: Health Care for All, a leading coalition of business and labor organizations, submitted a letter today to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing strong opposition to the proposed excise tax on higher-cost “Cadillac” health plans included in HR 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 1/12/2010 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=48 The duo “urge Members of the Senate to continue to work toward enacting consensus health-care reform legislation” – adding that “"The bill before the Senate this week isn't and shouldn't be the final answer, but the status quo is simply unacceptable.” 12/21/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=51 Opinion polls on health care reform keep piling up, and most of them show the public’s deep ambivalence, if not rejection, of the House and Senate bills on the table. But a new survey of residents in key battleground congressional districts found 11/24/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=50 The White House is once again distributing a statement from a Republican in support of health care reform. 11/20/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=55 In the often contentious but vital debate over health care reform, one issue unites patients, doctors, business owners and workers alike: the need to reduce how much Americans pay for the care they receive. 10/13/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=52 In a statement distributed by the White House Monday, Tommy Thompson — the former Republican presidential candidate, health and human services secretary in the Bush administration, and four-term governor of Wisconsin — gives strong praise to the health care legislation that is expected to be voted on by the Senate Finance Committee later this week. 10/5/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=47 The need for health reform grows more urgent by the day. Costs are skyrocketing, hurting families and businesses. 9/24/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=67 “After months of spirited conversation and debate, it is time to move forward a broadly supported, pro-growth health-care reform package that reduces costs, helps prevent chronic disease, preserves patient choice, encourages personal responsibility, and, most importantly, ensures quality and affordable care for all Americans,” said Mark Blum, executive director of the organization. 9/9/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=56 Far too often in our nation's policy-making process, we allow ourselves to get caught up in the divisive aspects of issues rather than focusing on how we can work together to achieve a historic, bipartisan result. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the debate over health-care reform set to enter a critical phase when lawmakers return to Washington next week. 9/4/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=11 Women in southern West Virginia are living shorter lives than women in much of the nation, according to a report released today. 9/4/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=49 Democratic senators met Tuesday with President Obama to begin coordinating their message on a healthcare overhaul that seems likely to focus on cost containment and changing the way the insurance industry does business. 8/5/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=3 Sooner than anyone had anticipated, President Obama's drive forhealth reformhas reached a crucial decision point. 7/19/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=9 American medical care may be the most expensive in the world, but that does not mean it is worth every penny. 7/17/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=4 Although much attention in health overhaul legislation has been givento a public plan option, employer mandates and other hotly contestedproposals, most voters favor a health system overhaul 7/16/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=5 As the push for national health care reform shifts into high gear, there's reason to think we may get it done this time. 7/13/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=36 Although still publicly beating the drums for President Obama's healthcare overhaul, representatives of some of the biggest players are beginning to express concern behind the scenes that it won't do enough about the major problem: runaway medical costs. 7/13/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=2 Insurance companies should use their profits to help fund as much as $100 billion of a landmark U.S. health-care system, senators including Democrat Charles Schumer of New York said. 7/9/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=35 With the growth in health-care costs skyrocketing higher each year, people are demanding change in our health system. 7/5/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=34 Leaders from business, labor and health care provider communities announced Tuesday a list of health care priorities that members say are nonpartisan, common sense goals for any overhaul legislation. 6/9/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=33 As veterans of many political battles, we both learned long ago that far-reaching legislation like health care reform requires House and Senate Members to strike consensus. 6/8/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=32 SB 414, passed by the West Virginia legislature on May 28th, is the centerpiece of a group of landmark health reform bills passed by the West Virginia legislature this year. 6/1/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=31 Walk though a typical Kaiser Permanente doctor's office or hospital, and you won't find a paper chart lying around. Kaiser, with 450 hospitals and offices around the country, isalmost entirely paperless. 5/18/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=30 A strong push from the Obama administrationand Democratic leaders in Congress has set thewheels in motion toward national health carereform. 5/15/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=28 Since I spent yesterday talking about health insurance, it seems fitting to switch gears to another health reform discussion: the fourth America’s Agenda HealthCare Summit Conversation, happening today at 11am PST at the University ofCalifornia San Francisco. 5/6/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=29 Dear Friends,Best wishes for a successful Summit Conversation on American Health Carefor the 2Ist Century atthe University of Califomia- San Francisco. 5/6/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=27 America has been talking for half a century about providing quality health care for every citizen. 4/28/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=46 Participants at the second of four forums on health care being held across the country concluded that real health care reform must start with disease prevention and better health information technology. 3/13/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=26 John R. Seffrin, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of the American Cancer Society, and its advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN, participated in a health care summit at the University of Miami during which leaders from medicine, business, and government discussed ideas to reform the US health system in the new Presidential administration. 2/25/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=25 American Nurses Association (ANA) President, Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR attended the first of a series of “Summit Conversations” to highlight the emerging national consensus on keycomponents of a reformed 21st century health care system on January 28, 2009, at the University ofMiami. 2/4/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=23 The drumbeat of news about the ailing U.S. economy constantly reminds us all about the uncertainties we will continue to face if Congress and the Obama Administration do not act swiftly on an economic-recovery plan. 1/31/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=22 While it may not sell newspapers or light up the ratings on cable shout shows, a diverse group of interests has quietly moved toward consensus on the need for significant health reform this year. 1/30/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=19 Amajor summitbegins tomorrow in Florida on health care reform. With Donna Shalala moderating, this summit. There will be a dedicated topic on Health Information Technology with one of the key speakersC. Martin Harrisof the Cleveland Clinic. 1/27/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=20 Our broken healthcare system is bankrupting people and businesses. We're all paying a lot more and getting less. Our nation's economic future depends on making the right policy choices on healthcare. 1/27/2009 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=17 The pharmaceutical industry is paying $13.2 million to run advertisements supporting 28 politicians, all but three of them Democrats, in an example of how interest groups are already adjusting to the prospect of stronger Democratic control of Congress in 2009. 10/24/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=16 America's Agenda: Health Care for All, thePartnership to Fight Chronic Disease, and a team of co-sponsors have launched a nationwide TV spot focusing on health care reform that is running over the two weeks leading up to the presidential election. 10/23/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=15 With the election just weeks away,a new pollshows that 79% of West Virginia residents would be more likely to vote for political candidates who worked to guarantee quality health care for all. 10/15/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=12 The majority of West Virginia residents with weight and health problems admit they need help, but many don't see a doctor because they can't afford it or can't get there. 10/2/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=13 A group of businesses and healthcare groups are joining forces to help make health care more accessible and affordable in West Virginia. 10/2/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=14 Too many West Virginians are going without healthcare and that has to change. 10/2/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=10 At the Democratic Convention event honoring Dick Gephardt, America's Agenda announced the launch of its new Summit Conversations series on American health care for the 21st century. 8/26/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=7 For years now, West Virginia lawmakers have been tossing around different initiatives and policy adjustments to lower the cost of health care. 5/20/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=8 Kenneth Thorpe has a tough challenge ahead: Oversee the design of a more efficient, less expensive health-care system for West Virginia. 5/20/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=21 When we're too sick to participate in the workforce, when our employers can't keep up with skyrocketing costs, when preventable diseases go unchecked and result in costly complications, we all pay the price. 1/28/2008 http://www.americasagenda.org/News-Details.aspx?ContentID=18 John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), will join other leaders from labor, health care, government and business January 28 at the University of Miami in the first of ten "Summit Conversations" on health care reform. 1/22/2008