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Abortion is a red herring. Most of the politicians and interest groups who protest abortion coverage in health care reform do not want reform to succeed at all.
No one in the health care debate is arguing for ending the enormous role that the government plays in the provision of care. They are talking about restructuring this role, so the big government story makes no sense.
In the Obama campaign, honest, effective framing was used with great success. But in the Obama administration, something has changed. It needs to change back.
Another economic shoe will drop when the government announces new federal budget projections. Whatever the number is, it'll be interpreted as a reason to abandon or delay health care reform.
If the Democrats manage to lose health care reform to internal fighting and its own conservative wing, the question of what the Democratic Party can do, or what it is for, will be hard to avoid.
If the president is to pass his health care legislation, he must tap into the core base of support the helped him win the 2008 elections -- a core that consists significantly of young Americans.
Just one month ago, President Obama, that left-of-the-left leftie, assured us that a public option was an absolute necessity for any health care bill he would sign into law
Denying coverage to organ donors?! More proof that there is no limit to the greed of the health insurance industry. Without regulation and competition, they will ruin our health and our nation's economy.
We, the people of the future, need your urgent assistance. We are writing to you from the rubble of our once promising republic, the United States of America, destroyed by Republicants.
We have replaced our dream of Democracy with a squalid oligarchy whose corruption is disguised by our embrace of a shabby illusion of freedom that comes in the form of material well-being.
Create a court that can mediate and rule on conflicts between patients and insurance companies, A combination of mediation and objective review that gives patients a 'court of last resort.'
It's not enough to elect someone and trust that he, she or they will fix things while we continue on our merry, consuming way. A movement is a myth without the people asking: What can we do?
Last weekend I was in Vermont on vacation when I heard that Senator Bernie Sanders was hosting a town meeting on health care. I grabbed my video camera and went to the meeting.
Hadassah's is one of many such e-mails I have received over the years from whites who confess to having been raised in liberal democratic- homes, but who are now flirting with white nationalism.
Why this incredible disconnect among our elected representatives shaping the future of one-sixth of our economy and future health care of all 310 million of us?
We are not in a room crafting health care legislation, so we have to rely on the words of those we elected to public office to truthfully tell us what they say, and how which bill will best benefit our lives.
If enough Boomers left the job market, it would flip the current dynamic of too-many-people-chasing-too-few-jobs upside down, and create a tight labor markets.
Most businesses across the country are reducing their prices - many slashing them dramatically - but health insurance is apparently not only immune to those pressures but able to counter-balance them.
A few hundred people serve on the boards of the nation's largest health insurance companies. They, the industry they serve, and the politicians who do their bidding, need to be held accountable.
Given a fundamentally flawed, unsupportable health care system, we need a new one rather than changing where some dollars flow and adding new dollars that we don't have in the first place.
If government-run insurance and care is so evil and so horrible, then why do conservatives keep supporting leaving America's troops and veterans in that kind of system?
By marginalizing the single-payer model from the outset, Democrats have already backed away from making the best case for health care reform as means to economic recovery.
What's the co-op advantage? There aren't very many of them so we'll have to make them! That's the only way to produce the transformational results that will get patients exactly what they need at lower cost.
A Twitter-submitted question from Phoenix, AZ spoke of "too many lies, like death panels" and asked the President "where is it all coming from?" adding: "America deserves to know the truth."
The complaints directed at Canada's health care system about waiting times for treatment are without foundation. My experience -- I was treated for a brain tumor in 2004 -- says quite the opposite.
In this potential summer of his discontent, Obama is running into the same buzz saw that killed health care reform in the last Democratic Administration.
The Republicans protesting health care reform are the same people who have brought us an avalanche of governmental regulations dictating the availability of women's reproductive health care.
Yesterday, Third Way -- which claims to be the "moderate wing of the progressive movement" -- proved why they should rebrand themselves "the Think Tank arm of the insurance industry lobby."
The 71 year old woman I love has Ocular Melanoma with metastasis. This was diagnosed seven months ago as terminal cancer. What would have become of her if she had no insurance?
That we, as a society, once again have the energy to protest and dissent, is actually a hopeful sign that after being knocked for a loop in recent years we're finding our footing anew.
Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.
We've got a better idea for the Democrats, which will enable them to pass a bill without resorting to controversial parliamentary procedures while still incorporating a public health care option.
Anger and shouting are part of the chaos of real democratic struggles over policy. People who support a government role in providing health care need to step up -- not to disrupt, but to show some backbone.
There is just one fact Americans need to know about our current health care system. Private health insurance companies make more money if they don't provide care than if they do.
It is about the underlying concepts of our political system. Do we want to stick to the concepts that made America strong and rich? Or do we want abandon them and experiment with new political concepts?
Your comment actually says the same thing as the cartoon but in different words.
How's this?
'The key to making a lot of money selling health insurance is money to only sell health insurance to low utilizers"
Insurance companies try not to sell insurance to the "mega-utilizers" because they eat into the profits. Insurance companies try to sell to "low utilizers" because they boost profits. From a corporate business perspective, it's just common sense.
That's the point of the cartoon; insurance companies cannot be allowed to control who has access to health care.
Scarborian: Your comment actually says the same thing as the cartoon
How's this?
'The key to making a lot of money selling health insurance is money to only sell health insurance to low utilizers"
Insurance companies try not to sell insurance to the "mega-utilizers" because they eat into the profits. Insurance companies try to sell to "low utilizers" because they boost profits. From a corporate business perspective, it's just common sense.
That's the point of the cartoon; insurance companies cannot be allowed to control who has access to health care.