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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Saturday 15 August 2009
by: Guy Adams | Visit article original @ The Independent UK
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury. Some of these Americans had walked miles […]
Taking the Hill
Sunday, June 7th, 2009June 7, 2009
By MATT BAI
Sometime in the next few weeks, Congress and the White House will descend into the labyrinthine politics of comprehensive health care reform. For Barack Obama, this signals the end, in a sense, of the eventful prologue to his presidency. Impressive as they are, Obama’s legislative victories to this point — most […]
Keeping Them Honest
Saturday, June 6th, 2009June 5, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
By PAUL KRUGMAN
“I appreciate your efforts, and look forward to working with you so that the Congress can complete health care reform by October.” So declared President Obama in a letter this week to Senators Max Baucus and Edward Kennedy. The big health care push is officially on.
But the devil is in […]
Sweeping Health Plan Is Drafted by Kennedy
Saturday, June 6th, 2009June 6, 2009
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — All Americans would have access to “essential health care benefits,” with no annual or lifetime limits, employers would have to contribute to the cost of coverage and the government would create a new public insurance program under sweeping legislation drafted by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and circulated Friday.
Under […]
Should Health Insurance Be Mandatory?
Saturday, June 6th, 2009June 4, 2009, 7:43 pm
By The Editors
Updated, June 5, 11:40 a.m. | Karen Davenport, director of health policy at the Center for American Progress, offers a view on the politics of mandatory health coverage.
Updated, June 5, 11:10 a.m. | Charles P. Mouton, chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the […]
Public insurance plan to reject illegals
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Friday, May 22, 2009
Washington Times
By Jennifer Haberkorn
Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Thursday that he supports “a version” of a public, or government-run, insurance plan, but that it won’t cover illegal immigrants.
“I do support a version” of a public option, he said, adding that’s it’s a “hot-button” issue. […]
Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Monday 25 May 2009
by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
A Blue Cross building in North Carolina. The health insurance company is running inaccurate television ads warning people against the prospect of a public health care option. (Photo: Bill Warren)
The boys running the show at Blue Cross in North […]
Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, AlterNet
Posted on May 24, 2009, Printed on May 26, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/140226/
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told a local AFL-CIO meeting, “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.”
Single payer. Universal. That’s health coverage, like Medicare, but for everyone who wants it. Single […]
Reform talk dominates WellPoint meeting
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009CEO envisions a changing market, but activists say insurer is part of problem
By Daniel Lee
Indianapolis Star
May 21, 2009
Indianapolis-based WellPoint’s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday quickly evolved into a forum on the timely and politically charged topic of health-care reform.
Angela Braly, WellPoint’s chief executive officer, touted the idea of expanding the individual health insurance marketplace — in […]
Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009By John Nichols
The Nation
05/13/2009
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, the insurance industry-friendly Democrat who is managing show hearings on healthcare reform, has come up with a novel way to express his commitment to care for the almost 50 million Americans who have no healthcare and roughly equal number who have inadequate care.
The senior senator from […]
