While most of us were still asleep, the United States Senate passed landmark legislation to reform health care. The legislation moves the country closer to the largest expansion of medical coverage since Medicare more than four decades ago. On a 60-39 party line vote the Senate concluded months wrangling to craft the Senate bill....
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Tags: Community Health Centers, Health Care Reform, health insurance, House, Insurance Exchange, Medicare, opt-out, Public Option, Senate
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One of the best known songs of the Great "Republican" Depression "Brother Can you Spare a Dime"was written in 1931. Viewed as the anthem of the shattered dreams of the Depression era, considering our current economic recession and our shattered dreams of Change, this song seems to be strikingly relevant.
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Tags: Afghanistan Occupation, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, health insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Howard Dean, Iraq Occupation, Joe Lieberman, Max Baucus, President Obama, United States Senate
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Yes, it’s true. I’m a liberal Democrat. And proud of it. Well, more often than not. One of the things that truly irritates me about Democrats is the appearance that too many Democrats in elected office at all levels have misplaced or had their spines surgically removed. So today when I read one of...
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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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Well worth watching. From MoveOn and Funny or Die
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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Tags: Health Care Reform, health insurance, health insurance companies, Health insurance reform, Will Ferrell
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WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama highlighted a new report from the Treasury Department that found that about half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years. The report also found that Americans under 21 have more than a 50-percent chance...
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Tags: health care costs, Health Coverage, health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, middle-class Americans, President Barack Obama, President Obama, President's Weekly Address, the uninsured, US Treasury Report, VA
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WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama cited a report released this morning by the Council of Economic Advisors in explaining how health insurance reform will strengthen small businesses in America. With small businesses paying up to 18 percent more for health insurance than large businesses, too many small businesses are forced...
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