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Ryan Grim

Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pelosi Public Option, Pelosi Single Payer Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Health Care Reform, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News

An amendment to allow states to pursue single-payer health care without incurring insurance-industry lawsuits was stripped from the House bill, Speake...

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I Am Not Paying Higher Taxes to Help the Uninsured

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prisoners-Dilemma, Game Theory, Middle Class, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Public Option, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.

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Single-Payer Protest Interrupts Senate Health Care Bill Markup

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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Debate over the Senate Finance Committee health care bill was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by a protest in support of the one thing absolutely not u...

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Giving Single-Payer a Second Look

Rep. Anthony Weiner | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anthony Weiner, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Single Payer System, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Obama Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Rep. Anthony Weiner

The truth is that the United States already uses single-payer systems to cover over 47% of all medical bills. And these can in turn help us visualize what an actual public plan would look like.

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Solving the Health Care Reform Puzzle

John Kenagy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Insurance, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare Cooperatives, Healthcare, Politics News
John Kenagy

Health care reform in America is possible. It's not only possible, it's already been done!

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Up Close and Personal With the U.S. Health Care System

Richard Walden | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Medically Uninsured, Haelth Care, Sarah Palin, La, L.A., Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Richard Walden

This week, thousands of L.A.'s unemployed and medically uninsured will have their eyes examined, their teeth cared for, their lab work and radiology work done -- free.

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

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Gary S. Chafetz

Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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Senator Baucus: "Uniquely American" Is Not an Answer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Max Baucus, Free Market, Health Care, Working Life, Max Bacus, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

What industry has done more to deny our citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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Whiteous Indignation

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Linda Milazzo

Be they the Sergeant Crowleys of America, the Aetnas or the Cignas, inequities will continue until The People make them end.

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Ryan Grim

Progressive Dems Push For House Vote On Single-Payer Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus is pressing Democratic leaders to allow a vote on the House floor on a measure that would allow individual states...

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Amendment to Grant States Right to Implement Single Payer Passes Committee Today

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer, Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News
Rep. John Conyers

Today witnessed the landmark passage of the States Single Payer Amendment which would remove federal barriers to implementation of a single payer health care system at the state level.

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Of Course They're Making Health Care Reform Difficult

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Henry Waxman, Insurance Companies, Single Payer Health Care, Health Care, Health, Politics News
John Wellington Ennis

Let me break it down: that a public health care option should even be assailed suggests the encroachment of an industry desperately clinging to its racket.

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Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

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Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

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Want the Public Option as Much as I Do? Then Get Mad

Bryan Young | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

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Bryan Young

I don't trust private industry with my health.

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MY Healthcare Problem

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Abby L. Ferber

Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.

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Two Parties No Party for America

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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Charles Karel Bouley

Our leaders have all morphed in to one large, non-identified, political animal that proports to stand for something but has ended up standing for very little at all.

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Ryan Grim

Nelson Clarifies Position On Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) called the Huffington Post on Wednesday, following our latest story about his stance on a public health care option, to clari...

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Why Is Washington, D.C. So Afraid to Even Talk About Single Payer?

David Sirota | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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David Sirota

The fact that the Washington Establishment is doing everything to stop single payer suggests that Establishment is genuinely frightened of any proposal that takes on the health insurance industry.

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Learning From History On Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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Sahil Kapur

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.

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CNN's Gupta: Not What the Doctor Ordered

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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James Floyd, M.D.

Gupta downplays safety risks in treatments, and was criticized for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication that was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks.

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Why Not a "Bailout" That Restructures Health Care to Benefit All?

Michele Swenson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Crisis, Framing Issues, Comprehensive Health Care Reform, Single-Payer Health Care, Financial Crisis, Medicare for All, "Free-Market" Health Care, Health Care Crisis, Prescription Drug Reform, Medicare Advantage Plans, Wall Street Crash, Barack Obama Health Care Policy, Barack Obama Health Care, Congressional Bailout Package, Subprime Mortgages, Congressional Bailout, Business News
Michele Swenson

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

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

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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
Miles Mogulescu

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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As GM Goes, So Goes America

Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Health Care, General Motors, Gm, Politics News
Rep. Jim McDermott

While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.

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