On AlterNet: health care reform
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "health care reform"
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.
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.
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.
Adam Green, Open Left AlterNet: Video. June 25, 2009.
Demand the public option!
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.
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.
DemFromCT, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. June 22, 2009.
Congress needs a better feel for what the public wants, not just what their colleagues want.
William Greider, The Nation. June 19, 2009.
Taxing health care will turn working class people against Obama and ruin the Democratic Party.
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.
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.
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
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.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 11, 2009.
Good. This is exactly the sort of line progressives must draw.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 27, 2009.
Conservatives are going after Health Care reform with wildly misleading attacks.
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.
Merrill Goozner, Gooznews. May 25, 2009.
The financial incentives of our current medical system make curing cancer nearly impossible.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Jason Rosenbaum, The Seminal AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 16, 2009.
Why we can’t trust the insurance industry with health care reform.
