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Healthiest State Blog

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The Healthiest State Blog focuses on the latest health news and information affecting Washington state. The non-profit Washington Health Foundation and its Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign maintains the Healthiest State Blog.

• Added on: Jan 27th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: healthieststate
• Listed in: Health News & Media
• Tags: blog health campaign healthiest healthiest state washington health foundation

Recent Posts

• Health Reform Will Benefit Small Businesses

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 11:38

  By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator A new brief issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines how proposed health reform legislation would affect small businesses. In the current economy, small businesses have had to ...

• Health Reform Hangs in the Balance

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 14:05

  By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator Will health reform legislation pass this year?  Will the Senate bill get the votes needed? The fate of health reform hangs in the balance, and it’s future is in the hands of three k...

• The Gift of Health Reform For The Holidays?

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 14:57

  By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator Health Reform is right at the top of President Barack Obama's holiday wish list. President Obama says he believes that legislation to reform the health system will pass before December ...

• Compromise Could Bring Vote Closer

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 12:49

  By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed support for the expansion of Medicare, a compromise on her previous firm stance for a public option.  This shift increases the chance that the div...

• Letter Urges Senators To Pass Health Reform Bill

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 13:02

  By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator Washington Health Foundation (WHF) President and CEO Greg Vigdor sent a letter to Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and the Washington Congressional Delegation, urging them to pass ...

• The Fight to Pass Health Reform Continues….

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 15:29

  By: Heather Pitre, WHF Health Reform Project Coordinator Opinions in the Senate remain deeply divided, but the battle wages on to pass health reform.  Democrats are feeling the pressure and trying hard to get the Senate bill passed.  ...

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