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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The Senate bill proposes to drop the Medicare eligibility rate to 55, a move that would permit millions of Americans to buy into the immensely popular federal program for retirees.
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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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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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See this story in the Washington Post. Why do we need a public option? I filled a prescription for my son this week. The same script from the same doctor for the same medication he has taken for at least the last four years and it was declined. This required a call from the...
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The following is an action alert from MoveOn.org.
As the health care reform debate rages on in Washington, local residents will hold a rally in Santa Ana on Tuesday September 22nd outside the office of United Healthcare. The rally will highlight how Americans are suffering every day because of the profit-driven policies of the health...
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From his performance of September 16.
"I want, not for personally for me, but for working Americans, to have an option, that if they don’t like their health insurance, if it’s too expensive, they can’t afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that...
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