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Washington, D.C.: Senator Harry Reid’s Health Care Bill Offers Serious Solutions	2009-11-19
Statement by U.S. PIRG Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely on the commencement of Senate Health Care Debate
Washington, D.C.: New report - One-Third of Young Adults Lack Health Care	2009-11-18
The future of the country lies in the hands of its young people. Yet today, more than one-third of America’s youth – aged 19-29 – lack health care.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. PIRG Praises House for Passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act	2009-11-07
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) hailed the passage of historic health reform legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Washington, D.C.: 130 Small Business Owners on Capitol Hill, White House to Ask for Health Reform	2009-11-02
As Congress prepares for floor debates on health reform this week, the owners of over 130 small businesses from across the country will fly into Washington, D.C., with one simple yet urgent message: America's small businesses need real health reform. Landscapers, chocolate-makers, home inspectors, and the owners of nail salons, cafes, bookstores, fishing boats, shoe stores and funeral parlors took a day off from running their businesses to make sure their voices are heard in a health care debate which is often mostly dominated by politicians and lobbyists for the health care industries.
Washington, D.C.: Consumer Group Praises Final House Health Care Bill	2009-10-29
Statement by U.S. Public Interest Research Group's Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely on the Introduction of the House Health Reform Bill
Washington, D.C.: Over 100 Small Business Owners To Visit D.C. to Make Their Voices Heard on Health Reform	2009-10-29
Over 100 owners of small businesses will visit Washington, D.C., next week to spend a day speaking to their Congressional representatives and to the White House on the need for health care reform.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. PIRG and Senators Schumer, Brown, and Whitehouse Make Case for the Public Option	2009-10-28
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) joined Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for a Capitol Hill press conference to highlight the public option’s role in improving coverage choices and lowering health care costs.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. PIRG Hails Reid’s Inclusion of the Public Option	2009-10-26
Statement by Larry McNeely, Health Care Reform Advocate on Senate Majority Leader’s Inclusion of a Public Option in Senate Health Reform Legislation
Washington, D.C.: Speaker's Deal with Low-Cost States could be Game-Changer on Costs	2009-10-22
Consumer group U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) is lauding a little-noticed cost-containment provision in Thursday’s deal between House leadership and Representatives from states with low health care costs on the public option and Medicare rates.
Washington, D.C.: Consumer Group Praises First Step in Health Reform	2009-10-13
Consumer group U.S. Public Interest Research Group commended the Senate Finance Committee for passing its health reform bill on Tuesday, despite what Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely called “a barrage of last-minute insurance propaganda.”
Washington, D.C.: Good Government Group Debunks Insurance Industry's Attacks on Reform	2009-10-12
The newly released report on health care costs released by accounting giant Price Waterhouse Coopers and paid for by the insurance lobby, America’s Health Insurance Plans, is just one more industry scare tactic, according to the good government and consumer group U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
Washington, D.C.: Finance Committee Delivers Strong Bill on Costs; Still Lacks Public Option	2009-10-02
The Senate Finance Committee health reform bill as amended in Committee scores a B for its strong all-around cost containment provisions, according to the consumer group U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). The new grade is an improvement over the B- score given to the original proposal offered by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus.
Washington, D.C.: Health Care Reform Can Save Three Trillion Dollars	2009-10-01
As the Senate Finance Committee wrestles with its health reform bill, a report re-released today finds that a strong reform package could save the American economy $3 trillion dollars.
Washington, D.C.: Small Business looks to Finance Committee for Relief from Rising Costs	2009-09-23
As the House Finance Committee takes up health care reform legislation this week, it is absolutely crucial for lawmakers to hear what small business owners are saying: Small businesses are being hurt by rising health costs Small business owners feel like they are being left out of the debate.
Washington, D.C.: Report Highlights Cost-Saving Health Care Research as House Committee Takes Up Reform	2009-09-22
A recent report by U.S. PIRG shows that comparative effectiveness research provides doctors and patients with up-to-date research on which treatments work best, simultaneously improving care and bringing down costs.
Washington, D.C.: Consumer Group Gives Baucus Health Plan a B- on Cost	2009-09-21
When it comes to cutting costs, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and his health care plan get only a B-. But if Senators do their homework during the Senate Finance mark-up this week, and the bill is improved, by the end of the week the bill could still earn an A.
Washington, D.C.: Much Work to be Done in the Senate on Health Reform	2009-09-16
Statement from Larry McNeely, Heath Care Advocate on the release of the Chairman’s Mark by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus
Washington, D.C.: Amid Bad Economy, Rising Health Care Premiums Slam Consumers, Small Businesses	2009-09-15
Even as Americans struggle with a recession and the highest unemployment rate since 1983, health insurance companies have jacked up their premiums again.Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Premiums Chart
Washington, D.C.: Small Business Owners Reach Out to Congress to Support Health Reform	2009-09-14
Hundreds of small business owners across the country will be calling Congress on Monday to tell their representatives they support comprehensive health care reform.
Washington, D.C.: Small Business Owners Across America Want Heath Care Reform	2009-09-11
Across America, hundreds of small business owners are signing letters urging their representatives to vote for health care reform now.
Washington, D.C.: Congress Must Break With Special Interests and Pass Real Reform	2009-09-10
Statement of U.S. PIRG Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely on President Barack Obama's September 9 Address to Congress
Washington, D.C.: Americans to Congress: Reform Health Care Now!	2009-09-08
WASHINGTON, September 8 - Today, Congress will be gaveled back into session with leadership promising to deliver health care reform. “It’s time for our representatives to finish the job,” said Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely of U.S. PIRG, a consumer group that has been building grassroots support for reform.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. PIRG Mourns the Passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)	2009-08-27
Statement from Janet Domenitz, Executive Director of MASSPIRG, on the passing of United States Senator Edward Kennedy.
Washington, D.C.: Young Americans Join Congressional Leaders to Support Health Reform	2009-08-26
Students and other young adults joined Congressional leaders on Wednesday to stress that America's young people urgently need health care reform.
Washington, D.C.: Health Care Reform: The Three Trillion Dollar Question	2009-08-05
Health care reform might cost $1 trillion, but it can ultimately save the nation $3 trillion, with billions of dollars of benefits for every state in the union, a new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group noted on Wednesday.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. PIRG Applauds the Resumption of Energy and Commerce Mark-up of H.R.3200	2009-07-29
U.S. PIRG's Health Care Advocate Larry McNeely on the resumption of work on health care reform by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's mark-up of HR 3200.
Washington, D.C.: STATEMENT on Blue Dog/Waxman Cost Containment Deal	2009-07-22
U.S. Public Interest Research Group wholeheartedly applauds today’s reported agreement by Chairmen Henry Waxman (D-CA), the White House, and the Blue Dogs to contain unneeded costs in health care spending.
Washington D.C.: New U.S. PIRG Survey: Small Businesses Crushed By Rising Health Costs	2009-07-21
Small business owners are being crushed by rising health care costs, and feel left out of the current health care debate in Washington, according to a new report released by U.S. Public Interest Research Group on Tuesday.
California: New Report Shows Health Care Paperwork Costs CA $9 Billion Annually	2009-07-16
CALPIRG’s new report, Cutting Red Tape in Health Care, examines the ways that administrative inefficiency drives up health care costs.
Washington, D.C.: Health Care Reform and the Biologics Bill - U.S. PIRG Supports Innovation, Not Monopoly	2009-07-14
A top, respected consumer group threw its weight behind proposals to speed generic versions of protein-based wonder drugs to market on Tuesday.