If conservative Democrats force the adoption of the trigger, a proposal that will kill the public option in health care insurance, it will destroy Democratic unity and doom health care reform.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
It looks like the message carried by Harry and Louise might be returning, once again payed for by an insurance industry desperately looking for any way to protect their profits.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
As the fight over health care reform heats up, the teevee airwaves have become one of the battlegrounds. And the rivalry between pro-reform Health Ca...
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Just four days after standing next to Obama and declaring their commitment to control health care costs, the insurance industry, device makers, and hospital groups are backing off their promise.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Shumer's policy prescriptions do not turn the public health insurance plan into a meaningless proposal. Here's why, point by point.
Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
The GOP has a choice: They can work with Democrats in good faith, or they can be ignored as Democrats pass the health reform this country so desperately need.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Does the insurance industry endorse using unsuspecting Americans in a fake grassroots campaign?
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
It comes down to this: Do you think health care reform should get a straight majority vote in Congress? Or should a few Senators be allowed to single-handedly block reform?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
The health care ad wars reignited on Friday with the release of a new spot urging Sen. Chuck Grassley to drop his opposition to a public plan for heal...
Richard Kirsch | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Make no mistake: the private health insurance industry hasn't changed one bit. It's got slicker rhetoric and new friends but the same old game.
Art Levine | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The oft-touted grassroots army that was supposed to help push the Obama agenda seems to be Missing in Action.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
One of the leading health care reform groups in Washington on Monday issued a strong rebuttal to House Democratic Whip James Clyburn for suggesting a ...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics
If we fail to insist on a public health insurance option as part of any health care reform legislation enacted in Congress, we won't have the kind of change that America voted for in November.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
We have 10 questions we're hoping members of the media will ask America's Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry front group, tomorrow morning when AHIP presents their new plan.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
If we want to win health care reform, we have to not only prove the insurance industry and the right-wing of this country wrong, we have to make them untrustworthy.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
Health care reform is a vital part of rebuilding the economy and expanding America's middle class. We have to do it now -- precisely because economic times are so tough.
Richard Kirsch | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Make no mistake about it, yesterday's election was a mandate to enact legislation that will provide a government guarantee of quality, affordable heal...
Roger Hickey | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Instead of working to guarantee health care for those without insurance, conservatives want to tax the health benefits of the 160 million people who get insurance on the job.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
The progressive group Health Care for America Now is up with a new spot whacking John McCain for proposing a health care policy that voters can't even...
Mike Lux | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
I am starting a series of blog posts today on what I think are the most effective ads, mailings, and other forms of communications with voters are in this late month of the campaign.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Via Politico: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has signed on to the progressive Health Care for America Now campaign's principles - a move that bolsters the...
Richard Kirsch | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
1. McCain will tax your health care benefits at work McCain's health care plan will make people pay income taxes on the value of their health care be...
Richard Kirsch | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
Charging people more doesn't make them smarter consumers, it makes them sicker and ultimately more expensive to care for.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
Earlier today, Health Care for America Now released this statement: Health Care for America Now (HCAN) - the unprecedented coalition of large labor ...
Mike Lux | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics