Posted by: Julia Eisman on Dec 09, 2008
Health care reform, meet online organizing. Onlineorganizing, meet health care reform. After running an unprecedented internet-focused presidentialcampaign, President-Elect Obama has brought his online tools from Chicago to Washington,DC in the form of the new,interactive transition website, Change.gov. While the site tackles a variety of policyissues, health care has received significant attention.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Dec 04, 2008
At first, we thought it was a story from The Onion, thatparagon of parody. But no, this was the venerable New York Times, telling usthat one insurance company, UnitedHealth Group, was planning to offer a newproduct: an insurance policy covering your right to buy insurance. Honestly, we couldn't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Nov 26, 2008
Although the Bush Administration proclaimed it would "leave no child behind" when it comes to education, 8.6 million American children are now being left behind because they lack health coverage. Last year's bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which would have expanded health coverage throughout the nation to approximately 4 million additional uninsured children, failed when President Bush vetoed it. The result is that millions of American children - a majority of whom are from working families - remain uninsured, according to a new Families USA report, Left Behind: America's Uninsured Children.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Nov 20, 2008
In a sign that President-Elect Obama means business, formerSenate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) was selected to fill the top spot atthe Department of Health and Human Services. This is good news. Very good news."The appointment of Senator Daschle as Secretary of the Health and HumanServices Department is the best news possible for those who want to achievemeaningful health care reform," said Families USA's Ron Pollack.
Posted by: Ella Hushagen on Nov 13, 2008
Lately, it seems like all the headlines about health care arepretty grim. How about a success story to brighten your day? Massachusettsenacted comprehensive health reform in 2006, and its progress providinghigh-quality health coverage to the uninsured has been irrefutable. At least439,000 people who were uninsured now have health insurance; about 191,000 ofthem found unsubsidized private health coverage.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Nov 12, 2008
Today, Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate FinanceCommittee, revealed his long awaited white paper onhealth care reform. According to the Senator, "...theCall to Action has three equally important legs: (1) a policy that ensuresmeaningful coverage and care to all Americans; (2) an insistence that any suchexpansion be coupled with an emphasis on higher quality, greater value, and -over time - less costly care; and (3) an absolute commitment to weed out waste,eliminate overpayments, and design a sustainable financing system that worksfor taxpayers as well as for the nation's recipients and providers of healthcare.
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Nov 10, 2008
We heard encouraging words from Michael Myers, staff director for the SenateHealth, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, chaired by Senator TedKennedy, at Families USA's post-election health care briefing: "With the Obama victory, thequestion is no longer whether we'll pursue comprehensive healthcare reform, butwhen and in what form."
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Nov 07, 2008
Having had a few days to process such an historic electionand adjust our lexicon from SenatorObama to President-Elect Obama, it'snow time to hit the ground running. Ourfirst order of business: quality and affordable health care for all. And we'renot the only ones who feel that way. Accordingto exit polls, of the issues that swayed voters in the voting booth, 60%ranked the economy, followed by Iraq,and then health care. A closer look will show that within voters' economic concerns, health care is numero uno.
Posted by: Ron Pollack on Nov 05, 2008
The election we witnessed yesterday was not simply historic - it was truly transformative. Just 43 years ago, Congress passed, and President Lyndon Johnson signed, the Voting Rights Act. For decades, since the end of Reconstruction, voting for many in the states of the old Confederacy was an act of unmatched heroism. To vote was to lose a job - even the laborious job of chopping and picking cotton for a meager $3 a day. To vote was to have your house shot into in the dark of night. To vote was to risk, and for too many to lose, one's life...
Posted by: Julia Eisman on Nov 02, 2008
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease has an important message for you: Vote like your health depends on it. Check out the video here....
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