Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Linda Douglass, a White House spokeswoman for health care, talks with Bloombergs Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about the prospects for President Barack Obama’s bipartisan summit in Washington on the stalled health-care legislation. Obama urged lawmakers from both parties to use the meeting to find ways to overhaul the health-care system, saying Congress cant afford to ignore one of the biggest drags on the US economy. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Gupte, Funtleyder Say Major Risk to HMOs, Pharma Is Past: Video
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Ana Gupte, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, and Les Funtleyder, an analyst at Miller Tabak & Co., talk with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about the outlook for an overhaul of the US health care system. President Obama will release a proposal to restart the health-care debate before a bipartisan White House meeting on Feb. 25. Gupte and Funtleyder also discuss Medicare’s proposed 1.28 percent payment increases for so-called Medicare Advantage policies in 2011. (This is an excerpt from the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)