The Senate is taking up health care reform tomorrow. But some conservative Democratic Senators are still trying to kill the public health insurance option. Instead of opposing it outright, they're pushing a sneaky proposal called a "trigger" that could delay it indefinitely—by forcing us to wait for' [...]
Under the health care bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, by 2019 taxpayers will be paying $196 billion per year to subsidize other people’s health insurance coverage, but there still will be 24 million uninsured people in America, according to the Congressional Budget Office and [...]
HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier, in the Wall Street Journal:
Speeches and news reports can lead you to believe that proposed congressional legislation would tackle the problems of cost, access and quality. But that’s not true. The various bills do deal with access by expanding Medicaid and mandating subsidized insurance [...]
The report says New York Fed officials mismanaged the negotiations with other banks, removing the threat that AIG would go bankrupt and bowing to a demand from French regulators that French banks holding AIG's debt insurance [...]
Dover - November 13, 2009. Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, CIR-ML today warned senior citizens to protect themselves from unscrupulous insurance salesmen using high-pressure and misleading sales tactics during Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription [...]
Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) says he is “not aware” of the Constitution giving Congress the authority to make individuals purchase health insurance, as the health care bills in both the House and Senate require.
When CNSNews.com asked whether the Constitution gives Congress the authority to make Americans buy health insurance, [...]
Delmarva Rural Ministries will be dropping the prenatal and dental care services in Dover by the end of December. Both are provided on a sliding scale so that they are affordable. The dental services are not covered by medicaid or other health insurance. There is no other provider of charitable dental [...]
(click to engorge BNet's Viagrastats image)...I don't think there's even been a Supreme Court ruling making wood a' [...]
1. Castle voted against the Stimulus (jobs)
2. Castle voted against the Lily Ledbetter Act (wage equality for women)
3. Castle voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment (anti-choice)
4. Castle voted against health care reform
5. Castle’s amendment to the GOP health care bill would allow insurance [...]
Dear MoveOn member,
Huge news: After decades of progressive efforts to fix our broken health care system, on Saturday night the House of Representatives made history by passing health care reform!1
But now comes the real hurdle: the Senate. Winning there is going to take a [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) –1 The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country’s medical system.
Unfortunatly not dramatic enough. I am sure there will be lots of add-on that will [...]
I’m saying nothing here. Just let their own health plan speak for itself….
* No national exchange
* No mandates for employers or for individuals
* Insurance companies still get to exclude people with pre-existing conditions
* No tax credits to help [...] [...] In all, during the last quarter" [...]
