Average senior who hit doughnut hole saved $714 per year due to drug discounts Madison – 12,637 Wisconsin participants in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program saw their drug costs reduced by $9,024,276 due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the first five months of 2012, according to new statistics from the U.S. [...]

Madison – Representative Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee), chairman of the Assembly Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform and member of the Joint Committee on Finance, appeared Monday, Dec. 27 on the PBS Newshour in a report on how Wisconsin is implementing the federal health reform legislation. The story stressed the need to go forward with reform [...]

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire WASHINGTON (TEWire) – The catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 230,000 in Haiti last January, President Obama’s historic health care bill, and the deaths of civil rights stalwarts Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Dr. Ron Walters lead the list of top Black Press stories [...]

Local fitness expert takes action to help curb rising health care costs in the workplace By Laure Gelis-Diaz (C.E.O of Pro-Active On-Site Corporate Fitness) Well, here it is — the Health Care Reform and Control Act. Beginning January 1, 2014 , every individual will be required to have “minimum essential coverage” through individual market, employer-provided [...]

By Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Campaign for Community Change Last night’s election changed the political dynamic in Washington with the Republican Party taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives, but not the U.S. Senate. Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Campaign for Community Change, released the following statement: “What a difference two [...]

WASHINGTON – In an analysis by the Center for American Progress of the recent “Pledge to America,” unveiled by the Republican leadership, CAP highlights one particular policy proposal by the Republicans of concern. This policy proposal includes repealing the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009. How the Republican’s pledge to repeal health care reform would [...]

Governor Jim Doyle this week signed into law Assembly Bill 770, the Critical Access Hospitals Bill. This bill ensures that the 59 communities that are served by Critical Access Hospitals can leverage additional resources and federal funding. The Governor was joined by supporters of the bill at a signing event at the Columbus Community Hospital [...]

This week on Tuesday, March 23, Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, conducted a media briefing to discuss the benefits and protections of the recently passed health care bill and the implications for the African American community. This event followed the bill signing ceremony with President Obama earlier [...]

When President Barack Obama signed into law legislation that will enable millions of Americans to gain access to health care insurance, he delivered on the promise he held since launching his audacious journey to the White House: Change we can believe in. With the 219- 212 House vote late Sunday night, he achieved a historic [...]

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. In a historic vote that took place this morning members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass a landmark health insurance reform package — legislation that brings us toward the end of a nearly century-long struggle to reform America’s health care system. Ever since [...]