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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009By Dean Baker, AlterNet
Posted on March 10, 2009, Printed on March 11, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/130887/
We all know that people have different ideologies about the proper role of government. Some people, who tend to be left of center, think that the government’s role is to try to promote the general good, by providing basic services, protecting the poor […]
Obama budget chief firm on Medicare Advantage cuts
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009By MATTHEW PERRONE
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget chief isn’t sugarcoating his message to health insurance executives: the party is over.
White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said Tuesday the government will no longer overpay companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run portion of the government health program for seniors.
For more than 10 […]
Fight Over Public Plan Option Dominates Ways and Means Hearing
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009By Rebecca Adams
The House Ways and Means Committee bickered along party lines in a Wednesday hearing about the need to create a public plan option for the uninsured in legislation to update the nation’s health care system. The debate underscored the controversy that continues to surround the public option proposal and the level of difficulty that […]
Massachusetts healthcare reform is failing us
Friday, March 6th, 2009Posted by Susanne King, MD on Tuesday, Mar 3, 2009
Originally published in the Boston Globe.
Massachusetts has been lauded for its healthcare reform, but the program is a failure. Created solely to achieve universal insurance coverage, the plan does not even begin to address the other essential components of a successful healthcare system.
What would such a […]
Senator Bacus and Single Payer
Friday, March 6th, 2009By GENE FENDERSON
Great Falls Tribune
January 5, 2009
In presenting his national health-care plan, “A Call to Action — Health Reform 2009,” Sen. Max Baucus said, “My door is open and I seek partners with ‘can-do’ spirits and open minds.’”
Earlier though, in the health-care forums he held around Montana, Sen. Baucus stated very strongly that a single-payer […]
