This result popped out at me from my recent Poll Vault on health-insurance reform:
Gallup Poll. Nov. 5-8, 2009
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, or is that not the responsibility of the federal government?Is the government's responsibility [...]
Charles Krauthammer on FoxNews tonight illustrates the idiocy of the Democrats' stance on healthcare. There is no provision in ObamaCare for tort reform, which would save half a trillion to a trillion dollars or two, nor is there the opportunity to buy health insurance across state' [...]
Last week, a group of small business owners crashed a major health insurance industry conference in Chicago, demanding to know why the big insurers continue to fight meaningful health care reform in Washington. These entrepreneurs have good reason to be concerned. Crain's Mike Colias reports today that local insurance brokers estimate many' [...]
by Mark Rhoads
A formerly sensible but still liberal Democratic U.S. Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, appeared on CNN over the weekend to imitate President Obama's recent rhetoric and ominously delcare that his moderate Democratic colleagues who don't want government-run health insurance shoud not want "to be on the wrong side of" [...]
by Joe Calomino
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced the Senate version of the government-run insurance program as an amendment in the form of a substitute to H.R. 3590. Reid’s bill is a combination of his own objectives and bills passed by the Senate Health, Education and Labor and Senate [...]
From the RNC -- 10 things you should know about Senator Reid's government-run health care plan ...
View This Research Briefing At www.GOP.com:
1. $493 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Medical Innovation, Payroll And Small Businesses Would Pay For The Bill. (Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid,' [...]
by Mark Rhoads
President Obama, who was a mediocre and non-leadership state senator in Springfield, has labored to explain why its OK to throw people in jail if they don't buy health insurance the bureaucrats approve. He often points out that many states require people to buy auto collision insurance if' [...]
This Republican Senators' video reminds us that Americans don't want higher taxes and health insurance premiums. 
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OK tell me what is wrong with this picture.
2 Different stories and 2 different takes on the subject by the same reporters.
AP Poll: Gov’t health plan divides public
WASHINGTON — Tell Americans that letting the government sell insurance in competition with private industry would be cheaper for [...]
Just in the past week, two key Democratic leaders in Washington expressed interesting in crafting a federal jobs package that would likely extend federal unemployment insurance for workers who exhaust their benefits after December 31. But they better move quickly, as more than one million unemployed Americans are scheduled to lose their insurance [...]
Below, from CNN...
Interviews with 1,014 adult Americans, including 928 registered voters, conducted by telephone by Opinion Research Corporation on November 13-15, 2009. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points and for registered voters is plus [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has already expressed some interest in extending unemployment insurance through 2010. Now it appears that Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is thinking along the same lines.
In a news conference today, the House majority leader said now that his chamber has passed its own version of [...]
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) kicked off its annual conference in Chicago this morning and health care reform is sure to be a major topic of discussion. Just over two weeks ago, AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni said her organization -- the nation's top health insurance lobby -- was "concerned" that the recently-passed House bill [...]
by Sam Pierce
I was fortunate to have received the great news from our illustrious Senator Dick (Durbin), having voted in his little poll on the "public option". Here is the message from Senator Dick:
Dear sam,
We already knew that a majority of Americans support the inclusion of a public health insurance [...]
Ten days ago today, President Obama signed into law a federal unemployment benefits extension granting jobless benefits to unemployed Americans set to exhaust their allotted insurance by December 31, 2009. When can workers in Illinois who qualify expect their checks to arrive? We put in a call to Greg Rivara, a [...]
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. [...]
Say it ain’t so, Michael Steele! How could it possibly be true that the RNC’s health insurance plan has covered elective abortion since 1991?
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent [...]
Updated Tuesday afternoon with Kirk response
Maybe in the end the Stupak-Pitts amendment the House included in the health reform bill approved Saturday night--placing restrictions on insurance paying for abortions--won't survive in the Senate version and/or when the two chambers work out differences in the legislation.
But Illinois' [...]
The unemployment insurance extension signed into law by President Obama last Friday will come as a huge relief to the roughly 30,000 Illinois workers who will exhaust their benefits by the end of the year. But the legislation won't help folks whose benefits expire on or after January 1. With the jobless rate continuing' [...]
By Mark Silva
At each juncture in the development of the health-care legislation, it seems, something has been added, or subtracted, solely for the purpose of getting the bill out of a gate.
In the House, Democrats demanded a so-called "public option,'' a government-run insurance program for those who" [...]
