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On AlterNet: health care reform

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "health care reform"

Only A Public Option Can Make Decisions in Patient's Best Interest

Only A Public Option Can Make Decisions in Patient's Best Interest

Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. July 1, 2009.
Only a public sector plan has the political and moral standing to set limits on coverage and control costs.

Hey Progressives, Join Forces to Fight the Health Insurance Industry!

Hey Progressives, Join Forces to Fight the Health Insurance Industry!

Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies. June 29, 2009.
Single-payer and public option advocates are fighting each other. We must remember that we're on the same side.

Got Health Insurance? Fighting for a Public Option Might Just Get You a Raise!

Got Health Insurance? Fighting for a Public Option Might Just Get You a Raise!

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 29, 2009.
Controlling health care costs isn't just necessary for the health of our economy -- it'd also be likely to boost personal incomes.

Be in a TV Ad... and Call Senate Democrats Out on Health Care Reform

Be in a TV Ad... and Call Senate Democrats Out on Health Care Reform

Adam Green, Open Left AlterNet: Video. June 25, 2009.
Demand the public option!

Americans Demand a Public Option in Health Care -- When Will Politicians Listen?

Americans Demand a Public Option in Health Care -- When Will Politicians Listen?

Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 23, 2009.
Even in special-interest-dominated Washington, it's rare for politicians to so blatantly privilege a private industry over the will of the people.

Public Health Plan Option Will Cut Costs (And Other Fun Facts)

Public Health Plan Option Will Cut Costs (And Other Fun Facts)

Bill Scher, Liberal Oasis AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 22, 2009.
The Public Health Plan Option Will Cost Much Less than Opponents Say It Will.

NY Times Poll: Wide Support For Government-Administered Health Care

NY Times Poll: Wide Support For Government-Administered Health Care

DemFromCT, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. June 22, 2009.
Congress needs a better feel for what the public wants, not just what their colleagues want.

Taxing Health Care Will Destroy Democrats

Taxing Health Care Will Destroy Democrats

William Greider, The Nation. June 19, 2009.
Taxing health care will turn working class people against Obama and ruin the Democratic Party.

Warning: Health Care Lobbyists Are Winning the Battle to Screw All of Us

Warning: Health Care Lobbyists Are Winning the Battle to Screw All of Us

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. June 18, 2009.
Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.

Corporate Profits Muscle Out The Public Opition

Corporate Profits Muscle Out The Public Opition

Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future. June 17, 2009.
Senators are catering to the private insurance industry that has profited from the problem rather than helping to solve it.

Disease Profiters Fear Public Option Will Kill Their Ponzi Scheme

Disease Profiters Fear Public Option Will Kill Their Ponzi Scheme

Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 13, 2009.
The estimated 119 million Americans wanting to join the public option has made the debate over it into a death match for the insurance industry

Four Reasons Why the Public Health Care Option is Irrefutable

Four Reasons Why the Public Health Care Option is Irrefutable

Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks. June 12, 2009.
Politicians who talk about compromising on it have no policy ground to stand on. Without the public option, there is no health care reform.

Pelosi: Health Care Reform Without Public Option Will Not Pass the House

Pelosi: Health Care Reform Without Public Option Will Not Pass the House

Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 11, 2009.
Good. This is exactly the sort of line progressives must draw.

Stop Being Distracted by Loudmouths Like Limbaugh: The Real Problem Is Lousy Democrats Like Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson

Stop Being Distracted by Loudmouths Like Limbaugh: The Real Problem Is Lousy Democrats Like Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson

Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. June 10, 2009.
Republicans are not the obstacle to progressive governance. Instead, Democrats who refuse to support a public option are the obstacle.

Why Americans Don't Want Single-Payer

Why Americans Don't Want Single-Payer

Bernie Horn, Campaign for America's Future. June 8, 2009.
The real reason why single-payer isn't on the table is because Americans simply don't want it as evidence suggests.

Obama Clears the Deck for Health Care Reform

Obama Clears the Deck for Health Care Reform

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 2, 2009.
We're just about at the stage at which the health care debate starts crowding out practically every other domestic policy.

Obama Calls for Health Care Reform Now ... or Never

Obama Calls for Health Care Reform Now ... or Never

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 28, 2009.
"If we don't get it done this year we are not going to get it done."

Health Care vs. the Right's Health Scare

Health Care vs. the Right's Health Scare

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 27, 2009.
Conservatives are going after Health Care reform with wildly misleading attacks.

The California Supreme Court Upheld Prop. 8, So Now What Do We Do?

The California Supreme Court Upheld Prop. 8, So Now What Do We Do?

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 27, 2009.
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling was a big disappointment, but there's no time to mourn: We must turn this anger into momentum.

Wrong Way in the War on Cancer

Wrong Way in the War on Cancer

Merrill Goozner, Gooznews. May 25, 2009.
The financial incentives of our current medical system make curing cancer nearly impossible.

Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, AlterNet. May 24, 2009.
The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.

Health Care Activists Battle Powerful Insurance Companies

Health Care Activists Battle Powerful Insurance Companies

dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 20, 2009.
Health Care for America Now activists call on the Justice Department to look at monopolies in the insurance market.

Cutting the Heart Out of Health-Care Reform?

Cutting the Heart Out of Health-Care Reform?

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 20, 2009.
Hickey: Now is the time for people to pressure their representatives for a public health-care option.

Insurance Companies are Already Screwing Obama on Health Care Reform

Insurance Companies are Already Screwing Obama on Health Care Reform

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 19, 2009.
"Opponents of reform would prefer to have a monopoly over health care, because the status quo is still quite profitable."

That Didn’t Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise to President Obama

That Didn’t Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise to President Obama

Jason Rosenbaum, The Seminal AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 16, 2009.
Why we can’t trust the insurance industry with health care reform.