Posts Tagged ‘ Health Care ’

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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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 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 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: 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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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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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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