National Health Reform

House Payroll Tax Vote Compromises Health

Larry_Cohen | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, House of Representatives, Gop, Community Prevention, Prevention and Public Health Fund, House Payroll, Prevention, National Health Reform, Health, Prevention and Wellness, Health Reform, Physical Activity, Politics News

Who turns down a $50 billion savings for the country? Who turns down the opportunity for better health for all Americans?

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Let's Not Return to the Days of Health Insurance Abuse

Sen. Sherrod Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donut Hole, Sherrod Brown, Biologics, Health, National Health Reform, Ohio, Health Reform, Congressional Budget Office, Politics News

In America, a family should never be forced into bankruptcy because a child gets sick. In America, an Ohio family shouldn't be denied coverage if it r...

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Mr. Boehner, People in Burning Houses Shouldn't Brandish TNT

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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To date, the orange-faced, red-nosed Mr. Boehner has been more of a pie-throwing clown than the ringmaster of a well-oiled Republican circus.

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Rx on Medicare's Birthday: Expand it to All

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Physicians, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, National Health Reform, Medicare for All, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Reform, Single Payer Health Care, Physicians for a National Health Program, Politics News

By replacing our crazy-quilt, inefficient system of private health insurers with a streamlined, publicly financed single-payer program, we would reap enormous savings.

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Is Obama Finally Pivoting to the Economy?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama needs to sell the benefits of his economic recovery program, including the tax cuts people have received and the elements coming on line this year. He needs to focus on additional ways to create jobs.

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Abortion will NOT be a deal breaker

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Abortion, Hr 3200, HR 3962, National Health Reform, Jane Hamsher, Naral Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood, Politics News

If you only watched TV or surfed the net, you would think health reform hangs by a thread over abortion. It does not. The media would like to pump t...

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Kennedy May Have Called Coakley Outcome

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, National Health Reform, Vicki Kennedy, Sen. Kennedy, Martha Coakley, State Sen. Scott Brown, Kennedy Center, Politics News

Scott Brown has the audacity to run for a seat held by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for 47 years and by a member of the Kennedy family for 53 years. He just might win.

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Why is Washington Afraid of Health Insurance Premium Regulation?

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health-Insurance-Premium Regulation, National Health Reform, President Obama, Inside DC, Politics News

The head of the health insurance lobby is urging Congress to double the tax penalties for those who don't buy health insurance. But what's missing is getting tougher on insurers, not consumers.

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Six Reasons We Must Keep CHIP in Final National Health Reform Legislation

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children's Health Insurance Program, Children's Health, Schip, National Health Reform, Politics News

Some contend that ending CHIP will allow more parents and children to be enrolled in the same health plans. But isn't it more important that health coverage for all children be easily secured and affordable?

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Family Helped By 'Extreme Makeover' Now Faces Foreclosure

HuffPost | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Medicaid, National Health Reform, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Bearing Witness 2.0, Medical Bills, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Health Reform, Extreme Makeover Home Edition Foreclosure, Dr. Brian Wofford, Wofford Family Foreclosure, Extreme Makeover Foreclosure, Impact News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A family who received a ne...

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Why Health Care Reform Will Be Good for Medicare Recipients

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Medicare, Town Hall Meetings, Health Reform, Seniors, Barack Obama, National Health Reform, Business News

A dispassionate look at this bill suggests that health reform actually will be good for the Medicare program.

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The Passing of the Kennedys and Healthcare Reform

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Baby Boomers, Death Panels, Palin, National Health Reform, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Generation X, Gdp, Single Payer, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Ted Kennedy, Generation Y, Health Care, Politics News

With the de facto passing of the Kennedy's in politics, we have truly reached the end of an era. What comes next, it seems, is an age in which the operative question has changed. It is now: what can America do for me?

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Caring for Health: Expanding the Policy Dialogue

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.17.2011

Providing universal health coverage is essential, but there are many, many other social policy avenues to pursue if we seek to improve the health of our citizenry.

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Millions of 'Dangerous' Socialists Massed on Northern U.S. Border!

Bill Mann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Government-run health care is only one thing we Americans can learn from Canada and its "left-leaning" political leaders.

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America's Self-Defeating Attitude on Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

The current system encourages exclusion of those who need medical care the most, and only government has the power to restructure these incentives.

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National Health Plan to Contain $2 Trillion Deductible

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hopes for a quick fix for the nation's health insurance woes were dampened somewhat today when the medical industry released its proposal for a plan that would include a $2 trillion deductible.

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No Recovery in Sight -- Unless We Pass Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Congress, Public Plan for Health Insurance, National Health Reform, President Obama, Ahip, Massachusetts Health Reform, UC Berkeley, BlueCross BlueShield Association, Individual Mandate, California Health Care Reform, Recession, Politics News

A new study came out today that claims that half a million people in California have lost their health insurance coverage during the recession.

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Behind Closed Doors, Repeating Mistakes from the Past on Health Care Reform

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Health Reform, Tom Daschle, Hillary Clinton, Health Insurance, Massachusetts, Single Payer, Health Care, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

There is tremendous support throughout the country for a single-payer system. President Obama, Give us a seat at the table if you truly want to build consensus around health care reform.

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A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must end. The healing -- moral, spiritual, economic, and in terms of violence -- can only begin when the US leaves these battlefields.

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Insatiable Health Care Appetite Trumps Cost Cap Efforts

Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Policy, Obama Health Plan, Health Reform, Health, National Health Reform, Health Care, Business News

Health spending gobbles up a growing percentage of our GDP (16.2% in 2007) because total spending on care rose by 6.1% as increases in volume far outpaced price hikes.

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Is MoveOn.Org Ignoring Its Core Democratic Principles in Setting its Direction on Health Care Reform?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care for America Now, National Health Reform, Universal Healthcare, Health Care, Barack Obama Health Care, Health, Universal Health Care, Single Payer Healthcare, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Without asking its members, MoveOn's leaders have elected to join the steering committee of, and pledge at least $500,000 of its members' money to, a new health care coalition.

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Why is Health Care for America Now Giving Up on Real Reform?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care for America Now, National Health Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

In search of a supposedly politically viable plan, the coalition has surrendered in advance on the only overhaul that will actually cure the disease: a single-payer, mproved Medicare for all reform.

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