The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal
By Paul Blumenthal on 02/12/10 @ 12:51 pm | 32 Comments
More than a million spectators gathered before the Capitol on a frosty January afternoon to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama, who promised in his campaign to change Washington’s mercenary culture of lobbyists,...
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The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal — Making Government Transparent and Accountable – Sunlight Foundation Blog
Rep. Alan Grayson: HR 4789 and The Public Option: The Way Forward
Rep. Alan Grayson: HR 4789 and The Public Option: The Way Forward
Health care reform — here's where we are. The House of Representatives is about to vote on a Senate bill without a public option. It looks like the reconciliation amendment will not have a public option. The House bill had a public option,...
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Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care
Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.
“We used to hustle over the border...
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U.S. is only nation to rely heavily on for-profit insurers for basic health care
U.S. is only nation to rely heavily on for-profit insurers for basic health care
In February, amid the heated debate over health care reform, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced legislation to bar insurance companies from implementing “unfair” hikes in health plan premiums. In a March 8, 2010, New York Times story, Feinstein explained why she...
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Kucinich on the Many Reasons to Kill the Current Health Care Bill | Personal Health | AlterNet
Kucinich: Insurance industry gets $70 billion dollars a year, forces people to buy private insurance, locks in five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases.
March 9, 2010 |
Facing razor-thin margins in the House, Democratic leaders are hoping to convert the sole liberal who opposes their health care bill, but it seems they have their...
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Bob Samuels: Why the Left Should Ignore the Right
Why the Left Should Ignore the Right
As Barack Obama continues to reach out to the Republican party only to be rejected time after time, it may be a good moment to reconsider the whole notion of bipartisanship. If Obama and other Democrats simply stuck to their guns and clearly articulated a progressive agenda, they...
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Chat: Kanada vs USA – Slaggprodukter
As a Canadian, who works full time dealing with a major American insurance company, I'd take my wait to see a specialist any day over the circus American's call health care, because you're getting gouged on all ends. The insurance companies have all these foolish, and arbitrary, “pre-existing conditions,” and they're going to make...
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