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Nixoncare Finally Wins

By Margaret Kimberley for Black Agenda Report – “The time is at hand this year to bring comprehensive, high-quality health care within the reach of every American. I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it.” – Richard…

Health Care Reform: We’re Not Done Yet

By Walter Tsou – The Supreme Court has spoken. The Affordable Care Act, briefly on the ropes, has been blessed as the law of the land. Too many feel that health reform is finally finished and we can move on to the big three issues: the economy, jobs and the deficit. However, because health care…

ACA Upheld: We Still Need Medicare for All

The Supreme Court just released their decision on Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), and their decision is that all components of the law – including the individual mandate requiring citizens buy private health insurance – are upheld and declared constitutional. This decision does not end the fight for expanded and improved Medicare-for-all. We know that…

E-Mails Show Depth of Obama Ties to PhARMA

From the New York Times – After weeks of quiet talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous. If they were to cut a deal with the White House on overhauling health care, they needed to be sure President Obama would stop a proposal by his liberal allies intended to bring down medicine prices. On June…

New Poll: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law

By Adam Liptak and Allison Kopicki for the New York Times – More than two-thirds of Americans hope the Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the 2010 health care law, according to a new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. Just 24 percent said they hoped the court “would…

Constitutional or Not, It’s a Win-Win for the Health Insurance Industry

By Katie Robbins for the People’s Tribune – The recent Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “ObamaCare,” has reopened the false debate surrounding the President’s signature legislation. Whether to uphold or strike down the ACA isn’t about how to provide truly universal healthcare in a sustainable way. Common…

Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Medicare for All Would Be Constitutional

By Miles Mogulescu for the Huffington Post – Conservatives and liberals may disagree about the constitutionality of the individual mandate requiring all uninsured Americans to buy health insurance from private companies or pay a penalty to the IRS. But there is no debate about whether single-payer Medicare For All would be constitutional. No one —…

Is Single-Payer Inevitable?

You may have seen dozens of articles and news clips claiming that if the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act in June, Democrats will have no choice but to turn to single-payer as the necessary alternative to healthcare reform. “It’s inevitable,” they say. It thrills us to see single-payer in the limelight, but…

GOP Attorney General Suing Over Obamacare Supports Single-Payer

‘I Trust The Government More’ By Scott Keyes for ThinkProgress – According to one Republican attorney general in the lawsuit against the health care individual mandate, the problem with Obamacare is that it’s not a government takeover of health care. ThinkProgress spoke with Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Caldwell…

Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case

By Mark Sherman for the AP – While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend. After months of anticipation, thousands of pages of briefs and more than six…