Health Care Policy

2009

• Public Option Now!

  The Editors

  Getting a Medicare-style public plan as part of healthcare reform is a winnable fight.

• Do Americans Have a Right to Healthcare?

  VideoNation

  The Nation's Chris Hayes and National Review's Reihan Salam to debate whether Americans have a 'right' to healthcare.

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  Healthcare Pushback

  William Greider : Unions

  Taxing benefits may raise money for Obama's healthcare reform, but it would betray union members who gave up wage increases in order to get decent coverage.

• How Can We Get Healthcare For All?

  GRIT TV

  President Obama's driving an engine for healthcare reform--what can we do to insure the destination will guarantee quality healthcare for all?

• Why Obama Needs Tough Love

  VideoNation : Global Warming & Climate Change

  Rep. Donna Edwards discusses the important role progressives should play in influencing the Obama presidency.

• Healthcare Bottom Lines

  J. Lester Feder

  A realistic public healthcare plan should rein in costs, fix uncompetitive markets and change the way medicine is practiced.

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  Missing in Action on Healthcare?

  Trudy Lieberman : Barack Obama Administration

  The Obama administration is focused on cutting healthcare costs, but that may be easier said than done.

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  Slide Show: The Healthcare Fight

  Images of the issues at stake, the personal lives affected and the players involved in the battle for healthcare reform.

• Noam Chomsky on the Heathcare Hold Up

  OntheEarthProduction

  Noam Chomsky explains the lag between public will to de-privatize healthcare and political plans to implement a new system.

• Operation Healthcare

  The Editors : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left

  Obama's hybrid approach to healthcare reform will succeed if progressives come together to support smart, incremental improvements in public programs.

• A System From Hell

  Kate Michelman

  In my family, two medical crises have added up to financial disaster.

• Casualties of Care

  Tara McKelvey : US Military

  The privatization of veterans' healthcare limits the government's ability to honor those who serve.

• Healthcare Lifeboats

  David U. Himmelstein & Steffie Woolhandler : Massachusetts

  The Massachusetts healthcare reform model may rest on impeccable political logic, but it's economic and medical nonsense

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  Fighting for Our Health

  J. Lester Feder

  Can Washington summon the will to cut costs, raise revenues and cover the uninsured?

• Healthcare Enemy No. 1

  Christopher Hayes

  Meet hospital magnate Rick Scott, the face of GOP resistance to healthcare reform. Oh, and did we mention the mass fraud perpetrated by the hospital chain he helped found?

• Healthcare Heats Up

  The Editors : Congress

  Don't listen to the fearmongers: government-run healthcare is cost-efficient, effective and far superior to the free-market mess we're in.

• Dr. Gupta, Give Me the News

  Chris Mooney : Media Analysis

  Withdrawing his bid for Surgeon General, CNN's Sanjay Gupta is headed back to TV. But his medical reporting, like his nomination, is worrisome.