Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. Here's a sad story about the demise of the Medicare buy-in, even before Leiberman pulled the plug.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: Politics. December 7, 2009. The Democratic "strategy" of paying for health-care reform by nickle-and-diming Medicare is a fool's errand.
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.
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.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 5, 2009. Conservative propaganda has convinced much of the public that a government-run program isn't run by the government.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 1, 2009. For those who think the government shouldn't be involved in health care, they already are. And you should be grateful.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 8, 2009. Rarely has an issue more dramatically highlighted the question of whether our government represents the people's interests or an industry's.
Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change. May 31, 2009. Without a public plan we will continue to lack a way to force improvements in private plans.
Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. January 23, 2009. A new campaign was launched to make clear to policy-makers that the moment is right to embrace truly universal health care.
RJ Eskow, Huffington Post. October 11, 2008. When a candidate suddenly, almost whimsically changes the way he proposes to handle $1.3 trillion, it's time to get nervous.
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.
James Ridgeway, Mother Jones. September 9, 2008. Remember Bush's signature health care initiative? I need it to survive -- and that's not very reassuring.
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.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. August 2, 2008. By starting with Medicare and showing what can be done, reformers enhance their chances of winning the larger war.
Jonathan Cohn, The American Prospect. May 29, 2008. Medicare is expensive because our health system is costly and inefficient. The cure? Affordable universal health coverage.
