Capsules: Tauzin: Home health care is 'not an elective thing'

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Jul 14 2011

Today from the Capsules blog: Mary Agnes Carey reports that former House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin has some advice for Republicans who want Medicare beneficiaries to pick up part of the tab for home health services:  It won't work.

You can also read the latest installment of Blogwatch, which tracks cyber chatter on the new health exchange regs; and a post that details about an IOM report on improving dental access.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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