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Begich, Dorgan, Feinstein and Warner Want a Public Option...Only For Part D

By Jon Walker
July 26, 2009

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AP Continues To “Report” Made Up Numbers

By Jon Walker
July 23, 2009

The AP again falsely claims that the House health care reform legislation would cost $1.5 trillion.

Waxman's committee is the last of three House panels trying to finish the $1.5 trillion, 10-year legislation.

This is a completely made up number with no basis in reality. more »

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Washington Post Lies About Public Plan and Medicare, Again

By Jon Walker
July 22, 2009

The Washington Post has again lied about a potential public option and about Medicare. David Hilzenrath wrote,

The issue of whether a public plan would be more successful at bringing costs under control is harder to evaluate. more »

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Public Plan Reduces Costs For Small Businesses

By Jon Walker
July 15, 2009

The House's America's Affordable Health Choice Act includes an “employer responsibility” provision. It is also know as an employer mandate or pay-or-play provision. The bill is written so that including the pubic option will reduce the burden of the employer mandate and costs for small businesses. more »

The Progressive Vision for Healthcare

- Senator Edward Kennedy
Submitted by Ian Mishalove
January 14, 2008
"An essential part of our progressive vision is an America where no citizen of any age fears the cost of health "

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Robert L. Borosage, Robert Loper et al. Straight Talk: Common Sense for the Common Good. http://ourfuture.org/straighttalk.

Instead of Funding Universal Healthcare, Dollars Become Insurance Company Profits

- Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Submitted by Melinda Gibson
January 14, 2008
"We’re already paying for universal coverage. We’re just not getting it. We’re pouring a large portion of every health care dollar into the waste of the private insurance companies, their executive salaries and stock options, their lobbying and advertising."

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Robert L. Borosage, Robert Loper et al. Straight Talk: Common Sense for the Common Good. http://ourfuture.org/straighttalk.

Americans Deserve Better Healthcare and Results from Washington

- Reverend Jesse Jackson
Submitted by Robert Borosage
January 14, 2008
"This is a program written by and for the insurance companies and the drug companies by Bush political appointees and GOP legislators...[It] shovels billions in subsidies to the insurance companies…[But] seniors are paying the price in confusion, catastrophic drug cutoffs and escalating drug prices."

   4 January 2006 Source

Robert L. Borosage, Robert Loper et al. Straight Talk: Common Sense for the Common Good. http://ourfuture.org/straighttalk.

Spitzer on Children's Healthcare

- Governor Elliot Spitzer - New York
Submitted by Chris Rasmussen
November 7, 2007
""To deny coverage to these children is not only morally wrong, it is profoundly bad public policy. Denying children health coverage during their formative years leaves them far more vulnerable to preventable diseases, which costs patients, government and taxpayers far more to treat in the future... "

   

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The House Public Plan: Yes, It's Worth It

By Jacob Hacker
November 6, 2009

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The Tea Party's Takeover of the GOP

By Stephanie Mencimer
From motherjones.com
November 6th, 2009

motherjones.com — The anti-health care reform rally in Washington indicates the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement are increasingly one and the same.

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The Republican Health Plan

By The New York Times
From nytimes.com
November 6th, 2009

nytimes.com — House Republican leaders have produced their own health care reform bill. Here is the first thing you need to know: It would do almost nothing to reduce the scandalously high number of Americans who have no insurance. And it makes only a token stab at slowing the relentlessly rising costs of medical care.

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Which Public Is That?

By Tom Sullivan
November 6, 2009

The Beltway cognoscenti keep telling us that a bipartisan solution to health care reform is what the public wants. Just what public is it that's more interested in process than results?

Conventional wisdom says that Obama has failed to make Washington more bipartisan if Democrats ram through a health reform bill without Republican support. more »

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GOP Health Reform Bill Shifts More Costs to You

By Monica Sanchez
November 5, 2009

The GOP health reform bill does very little to expand health coverage to more Americans, very little to lower overall health care costs, and very little to ensure people will be able to afford the health care they need when they need. So where's the reform?

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Conservatives Think You're Over-Insured

By Steve Benen
From washingtonmonthly.com
November 5th, 2009

washingtonmonthly.com — This comes up from time to time, but it's good to see former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a new ringleader for right-wing activists, state it plainly. "The largest empirical problem we have in health care today is too many people are too overinsured," he said. There it is, the right's philosophy on American health care in 17 words.

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CBO Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan

By Ezra Klein
From voices.washingtonpost.com
November 5th, 2009

voices.washingtonpost.com — Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison.

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Unhealthy America

By Nicholas Kristof
From nytimes.com
November 5th, 2009

nytimes.com — The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the most traction is this: "We have the greatest health care system in the world. Sure, it has flaws, but it saves lives in ways that other countries can only dream of. Abroad, people sit on waiting lists for months, so why should we squander billions of dollars to mess with a system that is the envy of the world?" That self-aggrandizing delusion may be the single greatest myth in the health care debate.

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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

By Chris Weigant
From huffingtonpost.com
November 5th, 2009

huffingtonpost.com — Imagine where we'd be now with President John "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" McCain, and Vice President Sarah (shudder) Palin. Each and every time you get disappointed in President Obama, or disagree with something he says or does, ask yourself: "How would this discussion be different if McCain had won?"

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The Election Message?

By Amy Traub
From dmiblog.com
November 5th, 2009

dmiblog.com — Consider this simple hypothesis: times are tough. Voters need to see that elected leaders are doing something that actually makes things better. If they don't, they're liable to opt for a change.

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