Without the basic protection of a public insurance option for consumers and taxpayers, Reid will lose the vote of Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats but has made no secret of his frustration with attempts to dumb down reform.
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Not sure what day this performance took place. Would have loved to witness it live.
The performance took place at a recent gathering sponsored by AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans). They are “the national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies.” They released a “study” recently that caused quite a bit of consternation. It claimed to...
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As the health insurance reform debate enters into its final stages in Congress, the President denounces the desperate and deceptive last-ditch efforts of the health insurance companies to derail it.
WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama praised the progress that has been made on health insurance reform, and spoke out against those...
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With the Senate Finance Committee passing its version of Health Insurance Reform Tuesday on a 14-9 vote you may be asking yourself; what next? There are two bills in the Senate and three in the House that now need to be combined into individual bills for each house to vote on.
This means for example,...
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WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama speaks of how the rising costs of health care are stifling America’s small businesses, and how reform will strengthen these businesses and the economy. Small businesses create roughly half of all new jobs, but they also pay up to 18 percent more for the very...
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On Wednesday the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute released a study, “The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: Implications for States,” underscoring the urgent need for reform and why inaction is not an option for Americans. Data for each state are in the study.
Without health insurance reform, within 10 years,...
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Well worth watching. From MoveOn and Funny or Die
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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