On AlterNet: health care reform
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "health care reform"
Jodie Evans, PINKtank AlterNet: PEEK. January 20, 2010.
This is a time when progressive forces in this country need to mobilize to prevent a backlash that will take this country further to the right.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. December 24, 2009.
Calling the Senate's health bill a "awesome achievement" like Paul Krugman did is to encourage the preservation of a hideously broken system.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009.
We're in the midst of a defining moment in the health care debate. Now's not the time to let up pressure.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 20, 2009.
From dissatisfied Obama campaign staffers to fed-up SEIU members, many are unhappy with Obama on health care reform. At last.
John Nichols, TheNation.com. December 19, 2009.
Sen. Harry Reid and the Senate Dems aren't winning any friends among the broad base of voters who support reproductive rights.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 16, 2009.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has pulled his single-payer amendment from the floor due to lack of support.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 15, 2009.
There is overwhelming disappointment at Obama's attempts for bipartisan health reform. But the good news is there's a glimmer of hope for the election of true progressives in 2010.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 7, 2009.
Nelson threatens to filibuster the bill if it's not included -- Harry Reid is going to owe some favors.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 3, 2009.
Feingold votes against a successful amendment that provides women free mammograms and other preventive services.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. November 26, 2009.
The White House released records cataloguing 575 visits by health care industry heavyweights since Jan. 20. The ties run deep.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 23, 2009.
Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 18, 2009.
An AP poll indicates majority support for a health surtax on the rich that's even stronger than the one in the House bill.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2009.
With the vote of a single Republican, Democrats passed the Affordable Health Care Act for America.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 3, 2009.
The bill is so outlandishly aristocratic, it might just be a gift for Dems.
David Morse, AlterNet. October 12, 2009.
Americans have shaped our technology into a health care system that is less humane than those in nations plagued by colonialism and war.
Cenk Uygur, AlterNet. October 2, 2009.
In round 1, Emanuel and Dean boxed over what strategy was best for Dems to regain House seats in 2006. Dean was right there, and in the health care debate, he's right again.
Brad Reed, AlterNet. October 1, 2009.
Special interests have always worked to kill national health plans -- from the progressives' proposals during the Wilson era to Clinton's failed reforms in the 1990s.
BarbinMD, Daily Kos September 29, 2009.
Jon Walker, Firedoglake September 29, 2009.
Brad Reed, AlterNet. September 28, 2009.
Because it was created by Dr. Frankenstein and Satan? Actually, the truth is far less comforting.
Marcus Stern, ProPublica. September 23, 2009.
One-fifth of his constituents have no health insurance, and more than half want a public option, but Blue Dog Mike Ross has held fast against it. Could a sweetheart deal be why?
Kenny Smith, Religion Dispatches. September 17, 2009.
The death panel rumor is the real deal: values masquerading as truth, all in service of one heckuva group fantasy.
Cristina Jimenez, DMI Blog AlterNet: Immigration. September 16, 2009.
Contrary to the hysterical spin ...
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009.
A media consumed with tracking Obama's popularity has failed to educate the American citizenry about the key elements of the debate.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. September 12, 2009.
The debates over health care reform and the war in Afghanistan are dogged by the same questions: What is the cost to us? How have our priorities changed?
