Marielena Hincapié, New America Media. November 11, 2009. Congress inexplicably restricts low-income legal immigrants from the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs, which provide a modicum of security for the most vulnerable.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 18, 2009. The Baucus health care proposal is a terrible bill. And the Senate's foremost health care expert is having none of it.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 27, 2009. Some can't reconcile what they believe about the propaganda that is fed to them with their own positive experiences with public programs like Medicare.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Politics. August 21, 2009. Foxx, of course, is also on record as saying: "There are no Americans who don't have healthcare."
Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check. January 27, 2009. In an effort to court Republicans, Obama is trying to strip from the stimulus package a plan to extend birth control coverage under Medicaid.
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. September 29, 2008. Neither candidate is talking much about the people who fall through gaps in our public safety net. And neither plan is truly universal.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 28, 2008. Though Obama's health plan is far better than McCain's, it still only tinkers around the edges. What we need is a system overhaul.
Julie Winokur, AlterNet. May 29, 2007. Collateral Damage: Bad Medicine in Tennessee, a new film by Julie Winokur, explores the single largest Medicaid cuts in history -- a failed "reform" attempt that left 170,000 people without care almost overnight.
