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Posted by: Mark Fisher on Mar 15, 2010
One of the biggest myths surrounding the current health care legislation is the notion that these reforms will add to our national deficit. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Category: Health Care Costs,President Obama,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Colleen Haller on Feb 26, 2010
After all the questions and anticipation surrounding yesterday's health care summit, it was finally here! Congressional leaders and President Obama had a unique opportunity to discuss health reform and, for the most part, move beyond popular talking points toward a substantive discussion of what's really in health reform. Despite moments of honest debate, Republicans tended to revert back to those tried-and often untrue-scare tactics about health reform. I'd like to set the record straight on some misinformation presented at the summit.
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Category: Congress,Health Care Costs,Insurance Industry,President Obama
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Feb 23, 2010
The beltway has been abuzz ever since President Obama announced he plans to hold a Health Care Summit between key Congressional leaders. Will Republicans attend? Will President Obama provide a health reform proposal? Will the Republicans provide their own proposal? If they do provide a proposal, will meet the criteria of meaningful health reform?
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Category: Congress,Health Care Costs,Insurance Industry,President Obama
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Feb 22, 2010
If the news of impending premium hikes in California wasn't enough to convince you of the urgency of passing health reform, then the news that insurance companies in at least six other states (and counting) have proposed dramatic rate increases as well should shock you into the realization that the time for reform is NOW!
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Category: Health Care Costs,Insurance Industry,President Obama
Posted by: Kate Blocher on Feb 17, 2010
Despite the recent epic snowfall in D.C., our congressional leaders and President Barack Obama have continued to work towards a compromise on the health reform bills, in hopes of finding a way to move it across the finish line. Unfortunately, reform has not come quickly enough for many people in California.
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Category: Health Care Costs,Insurance Industry,President Obama
Posted by: Ron Pollack on Jan 21, 2010
Health reform has never been easy. That lesson has come up throughout this year's legislative process - as if decades of failed reforms had not yet made that clear.
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Category: Congress,President Obama,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Ron Pollack on Jan 21, 2010
This week, Republican candidate Scott Brown won the Senate seat in Massachusetts, leaving the Democrats just short of the 60 votes needed for a filibuster-proof majority. Unfortunately, this is not the outcome we had hoped for.
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Category: Congress,President Obama,Uninsured Americans
Posted by: Erin Kelly on Jan 14, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, the National Journal published an article stating that health insurers have been funding ads by the Chamber of Commerce. While that may not seem like breaking news, consider the goal of these ads: They are part of an effort to kill reform.
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Category: Health Care Costs,Insurance Industry,President Obama
Posted by: Mark Fisher on Dec 17, 2009
Even though the Christmas holiday is rapidly approaching, and many are slowly decreasing their workloads, President Obama is hard at work convincing Senators to pass health care reform before the 25th. On Tuesday, the President invited the Democratic Caucus to the White House to discuss health insurance reform.
Posted by: Zoe Bendixen on Sep 18, 2009
The morning was gray and the lines were long, but I wasn't complaining. At the end of that line was the chance to listen to President Obama give a speech to more 20,000 people gathered at the University of Maryland College Park on the need to enact health reform, and to enact that reform now.
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Category: Insurance Industry,President Obama