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AFL-CIO Statement on the Senate Health Care Bill

20 hours ago ago from North Carolina's Union Movement

Not worthy of our support without changes Working people have been fighting for health care reform in the United States for over a century. Despite the challenges to getting a good bill, we are not about to give up now. Today, our country stands alone in the developed world as the only nation not to provide comprehensive health care to all her people. It is a distinction without honor or even common sense. Sadly, in the U.S. ...

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CBO: Insurance Proposal Would Effectively Nationalize Private Insurance Dec 17, 2009 by John Goodman  A Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is the percentage of premium dollars an insurer spends on claims as opposed to administrative costs and other expenses. According to news reports , a proposal from Senator Rockefeller and others would limit MLRs to 90%. The Reid bill already requires insurers to issue rebates to enrollees on a ...

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Confused by the health-care debate? You're not alone.

18 hours ago ago from Seattle Local Health Guide

Despite months of discussion and debate, Americans are finding it harder, not easier to understand the health care reform, according to a poll conducted by the non-partisan Pew Research Center. Although those surveyed said they were following the health care debate more closely than any other story, including the economy, Afghanistan and the Climate Change Conference, 69 percent said health reform was hard to understand, up from 63 ...

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Will Marshall: Will Liberals Really Kill Health Reform?

23 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

The never-ending story of health care reform took another turn for the weird this week. It began with liberals working themselves into a lather over Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to scuttle reform unless the Medicare buy-in was dropped. Now Howard Dean, liberal paladin and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is campaigning openly to kill a Democratic president's top domestic priority. Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders, the ...

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Nebraska Pastors Urge Nelson To Support Health Care Reform

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The effort to persuade Sen. Ben Nelson to end his threat to filibuster health care reform without tougher restrictions on abortion have resulted in an interesting role reversal: three Nebraska pastors are now urging the senator to support the bill. Revs. Bert Thelen, S.J., Jane Florence and David Lux took to the pages of the Omaha World Herald on Friday in an op-ed that framed the need for health care reform as a moral imperative. The trio ...

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Joe Peyronnin: It Is Time Mr. President

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Remember just a few weeks ago when political pundits were declaring the demise of the Republican Party? That Republicans were teetering on the edge of insignificance; remember? Well, not to be outdone, Democrats have now stolen the show! Former Democratic National Committee Chairman, and Vermont Governor, Howard Dean has counseled senators to vote no on the latest Senate health reform proposal. As he explained in a Washington Post op-ed ...

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Larry Kissell Angers Supporters With Vote Against Health Care

3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

The Washington Post : To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a year ago. Change came not only from President Obama, who narrowly won this swing state, but also from a millworker-turned-high school civics teacher who had no political experience but ran on a promise to bring a progressive everyman's sensibility to Congress. Fueled by ...

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William Klein: How To Pass Health Care Reform--Promise Voinovich the Moon

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When the U.S. Senate took its historic vote to move the health care bill to the floor, the count was delayed so that the nonagenarian Robert Byrd could be wheeled into the chamber and Joe Lieberman could walk to the Saturday session from shul . (Oy! Would that he have been hit by a bus! --Nisht fur dich gedach t !) But when the roster reached 99, there was still an empty desk. Ohio Senator George Voinovich was a no-show. Conspiracy ...

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