Posts Tagged ‘ health care reform ’

The bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for America. Over the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over...
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The bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for America. Over the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over...
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Filed under: Woman UpWatching "It's a Wonderful Life" has been a Christmas tradition since the 1970s. Hard to believe that today's beloved classic was a flop when it premiered in 1946.It was even reported to the FBI as Communist propaganda. Ironic, since director Frank Capra said he made the movie to "combat...
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As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) contemplates how much power Olympia Snowe (R-ME) should have handed to her so he can pretend he has a bipartisan health care reform bill, perhaps he could take a moment to consider her stated approach on the issue: I’m traditional in my approach towards reforming...
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It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, "Take one of these, and call us in a decade." Well, not this time. It's so on. ...
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One more reason to support meaningful health care reform: The Consumers Union survey of 1,002 adults from Sept. 17 to 20 found that among the ways people have tried to cut back on health care costs: 28 percent put off doctors' visits. 25 percent have been unable to afford medical bills...
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Following a heady day of Nobel Peace Prize news, President Barack Obama's routine address this morning got back to the nuts and bolts of governing. Once again, as he has numerous times in past weeks, he focused the talk on health care reform, with this week's theme focusing on bipartisan consensus gelling to change...
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Republicans have been whining recently about being shut out of the drafting of health care reform legislation. President Obama has cut off communication with Republican leaders, going more than four months without hosting the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House to discuss his health care proposal, the No. 2 Republican in...
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While our well and fully insured Senators and Congressman sit around in Washington arguing about health care reform, real people are going without a doctor's care -- unless they are lucky enough (with "luck" being a relative term here) to live in Houston: Over the weekend, thousands of Texans attended what is...
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Here's a couple of stories coming out of the Senate Finance Committee, as they continue with what will apparently be the longest mark-up process in the history of the Senate. First, we have Orrin Hatch (R-UT), as he carried out his own little filibuster by "asking waves of repetitive questions — that the...
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