Weekly News Wrap-Up (April 12 - April 16)

Low-Cost Coverage in Obama Health Plan not for all (The Associated Press, April 16, 2010)
It’s an eagerly awaited early benefit of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul: affordable coverage for Americans with medical problems who can’t get a private insurer to even take a look.

Obama Signs Legislation Delaying Medicare Physician Pay Cut (McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and Assisted Living, April 16, 2010)
President Obama Thursday night signed a bill that postpones a scheduled 21.2% cut in Medicare physician pay and extends the COBRA unemployment insurance benefit until June 1.  He made it law just hours after the legislation cleared both houses of Congress.