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Miles Mogulescu: The Health Insurance and Drug Industry Profit Protection Act Sucks and Should be Killed
8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
For 60 years, progressives, liberals, and most Democrats have stood for universal health care, paid for by progressive taxes, and available to all Americans from birth 'till death. The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats have now stood that goal on its head with a bill that purports to provide health care to the uninsured by forcing them to buy defective and unaffordable insurance from unscrupulous private companies or be fined ...
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5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
When White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel implored Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday to agree to demands to drop a provision to expand Medicare coverage, he was abandoning principles of health care reform that he once supported. Back in November 2007, the then-Illinois Representative and head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee penned an op-ed for the Washington Post in which he specifically vouched for ...
Related contentSingle-payer health care plan dies in Senate
2 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
WASHINGTON - The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died today in the Senate, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed it will return when the realization dawns that private insurance companies "are no longer needed." Sanders, an independent and socialist, said his approach is the only one "which eliminates the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, administrative costs, bureaucracy and profiteering ...
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2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
In my view, the bills still in play are still worth passing - even given their obvious weaknesses. Why? Because this entire health care reform episode has been not an exercise in policy analysis, but rather a lesson in politics. The tipoff came right at the start because the plans being offered depended on competition among private insurers to achieve the goals of reform. That was a weak strategy to begin with because insurers have only 3 ...
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