Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare Reform’
If Private Health Insurance Companies Are Evil, Why Are You Forcing Me to Be a Customer?
By Jon Walker for Fire Dog Lake – A big part of the final push for this health care reform effort is focused on how terrible the private insurance companies are. On the White House blog, communications director Dan Pfeiffer is attacking the huge premium increases and monopoly power of some private insurers. HCAN is…
Read MoreFormer Rep. Massa Claims He Was Forced Out over Healthcare Bill
From Democracy NOW! – Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in the House are scrambling to secure enough votes to pass the Senate’s version of the healthcare reform package. Intense pressure is reportedly being placed on some Democratic lawmakers to support the party line. New York Democrat Eric Massa is claiming he was forced out of Congress by…
Read MoreObama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer
By Matthew Rothschild for the Progressive – When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer system. He said: “On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our system…
Read MoreWhen the Health Reform Truth Oozes Out: And it isn’t Just
By Donna Smith – Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of President Obama during Wednesday’s press event. Not just… “Everything there is to say about healthcare has been said and just about everyone has said it,” Obama…
Read MoreSome companies drop health insurance, don’t tell employees
BY Mary Cornatzer – As if having to pay higher health insurance premiums each year isn’t bad enough, now workers have another worry: companies that drop their health insurance coverage and don’t bother to tell employees. It’s a practice that’s on the rise, says Kristin Milam with the state Department of Insurance. State law requires…
Read MoreThe Single-Payer Health Debate We Should Have Had
By Bruce Bartlett for Wall Street Pit – There’s been a bit of a debate going on in the blogosphere lately about whether the Democrats should have proposed a more limited health reform plan in the first place. Such a plan might have gotten some Republican support or at least led to less intense Republican…
Read MoreSidewalk Summit News Roundup
Sidewalk summits for single-payer healthcare were covered in the news yesterday thanks to the hard work of activists from all over the country. Here’s what we have found so far. Washington, DC – Healthcare Summit Ends in Deadlock; Single-Payer Advocates Excluded – Democracy Now! – Bipartisan Agreement Outside Blair House: We Don’t Like This Bill…
Read MoreHealthcare Summit Ends in Deadlock; Single-Payer Advocates Excluded
From Democracy Now! – After nearly seven hours of televised debate, President Obama’s so-called bipartisan healthcare summit ended Thursday without any substantive agreement between Republicans and Democrats. Republican lawmakers remained staunchly opposed to using the federal government to regulate health insurance. We speak to Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor Trudy Lieberman and pediatrician Dr. Margaret…
Read MoreObama plan leaves millions uninsured, boosts private insurers
From PNHP – President Obama’s health care proposal, preserving as it does a central role for the for-profit, private health insurance industry, is incapable of achieving the kind of universal, comprehensive and affordable reform the country needs, a spokesman for a national doctors’ group said Wednesday. “Regrettably, the president’s proposal is built on some of…
Read MoreWhere’s the Single-Payer Advocate?
By Michael McAuliff for the NY Daily News – Reps. Anthony Weiner and Peter Welch are reprising a question that proved thorny for President Obama’s last health care summit: Where’s the single-payer advocate? Weiner and Welch — single-payer advocates who are not invited, yet — argue in a letter to the President today that someone…
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