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Reality Bites Health-Care Reform
June 24, 2009
Last week, reality hit the health-care reform process in the Congress. The bad news is that it slowed the push toward enactment of legislation. The good news is that, in...
Poll Shows Business Leaders Want a Bold New Direction in Health-Care Reform
June 24, 2009
Wednesday, June 24 - Our survey of 300 business executives reveals a resounding vote of no-confidence in the viability of our current health-care system. What's more, business leaders believe that now...
CED Endorses the Healthy Americans Act
June 09, 2009
Washington, D.C. June 9, 2009 - The Committee for Economic Development, for 67 years a leading business group that pursues public policy in the national interest, today publicly endorsed the Healthy Americans...
CED Views on Congressional Health-Care Reform Efforts
June 08, 2009
Most of the pieces of sustainable, fundamental health-care reform are on the table in Washington. It remains for Congress to put those pieces together, and to take further leadership to...
Business Leaders Urge Action on Health-Care Reform
June 04, 2009
CED has engaged business leaders, academics, and companies on the importance of action on health care reform. Those listed below have signed on to CED's public statement on health-care...
Is It Good For Shareholders To Have More Rights?
May 28, 2009
On May 20, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed regulatory changes to give shareholders the right to nominate directors to corporate boards -- so-called proxy access. Shareholders have fought for access...
USGov Insurance, Inc.: A Bad Buy
April 24, 2009
The United States desperately needs health-care reform. Costs are too high and rising unsustainably fast, pricing too many Americans out of insurance coverage. The quality of care by and large...
You Can’t Get There From Here?
April 08, 2009
Even though concerns about the U.S. health-care system continue unabated, many have concluded that the current financial crisis has rendered systemic reform infeasible. The reasoning is that the costs...
What Gets Measured Gets Done
March 10, 2009
Seven years ago, after the fall of Enron and WorldCom, President Bush called for a "new ethic of personal responsibility in the business community-an ethic that will increase investor confidence,...
First Reactions to the Budget
February 26, 2009
President Obama's budget for fiscal year 2010 (beginning October 1, 2009) was released on February 26, 2009. Technically, the budget was due on the first Monday in February, but such a quick turnaround for...