Posts Tagged ‘ Public Option ’

Senate Passes Largest Health Care Expansion Since Medicare

December 24, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
Senate Passes Largest Health Care Expansion Since Medicare

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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Medicare at 55 But Senate Deal Kills Public Option

December 9, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
Medicare at 55 But Senate Deal Kills Public Option

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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Sanders Stands On Principle: Must Have Public Option

November 27, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
Sanders Stands On Principle: Must Have Public Option

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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Health Insurance Reform: What’s Next?

October 14, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
Health Insurance Reform: What’s Next?

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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CBO Reports a Strong Public Option Saves More Money with Healthcare Reform

September 25, 2009
By Dan Chmielewski

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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“Big Insurance: Sick of It” – Rally Today at 11:30 am

September 22, 2009
By Chris Prevatt
“Big Insurance: Sick of It” – Rally Today at 11:30 am

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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Bill O’Reilly (?!) Hits a Home Run

September 18, 2009
By Bill Spaulding

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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