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Daily Health Care Headlines, June 29

Posted by: Erin Kelly on Jun 29, 2009

David Axelrod: No ultimatum on public health care plan

White House senior adviser David Axelrod says President Barack Obama would like to have a public option – or government-run insurance plan – as part of a health reform package, but will not insist on it.

State of Play: Congress Breaks, White House Motors On

Congress will be out this week, so the White House is filling the health-care space with a series of events — in person and over the Internet — to keep the spotlight on the president’s top domestic priority.

White House Won't Rule Out Benefits Tax

President Obama's top political adviser declined yesterday to rule out the possibility that the White House would agree to a tax hike on health insurance plans that would hit middle-income Americans.

The Key to Fixing Health Care and Energy: Use Less

Our health-care crisis and our energy crisis are complex dilemmas made of many complex problems. But our biggest problem in both health care and energy is essentially the same simple problem: we use too much. And in both cases, there's a simple explanation for much of the problem: our providers get paid more when we use more.