Health Insurance

2009

Healthcare Reform's 'Historic Day'

MSNBC

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on Morning Joe to weigh in on the House's Saturday evening healthcare vote.
Problems for the Public Option

Lindsay Beyerstein

The final House health reform bill has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for.
Joe Lieberman and the Opt-Out Revolution

Lindsay Beyerstein : Health, Science & Environment

Progressives rejoiced when Sen. Harry Reid announced that the Senate healthcare bill would include a public option. But the jubilation was short-lived.
Lieberman Twists the Knife

Robert Scheer

The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any healthcare reform bill that has a public option--even the version with the "trigger" compromise accepted by Sen. Olympia Snowe.
Reid to Back 'Opt-Out' Public Option

MSNBC

Sen. Harry Reid will introduce a healthcare reform bill including an "opt-out" public option--grounds for disappointment, says Ari Melber.
The Future of the Public Option

The Rachel Maddow Show

Chris Hayes, The Nation's Washington editor, clears up some of the confusion regarding the future of the public optio
Crafting Health Reform

J. Lester Feder : Health Care Policy

Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.
Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea

Steve Early & Rand Wilson : Labor

Max Baucus's scheme to tax the benefits of workers slightly better off--so revenue can be raised for private insurance subsidies--is a lose-lose proposition.
Lowballing Health Reform

J. Lester Feder : Health Care Policy

Progressives need to be as concerned about insurance coverage affordability as we are about a public option.

2008

Wrong Prescription

J. Lester Feder : Health Care Policy

McCain would encourage employers to cut coverage. No joke: that's his plan.

2007

Healthcare Surrender Monkeys

Barbara Ehrenreich : Health Care Policy

America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.
Let the CHIPs Fall...

Trudy Lieberman : Children & Child Care

Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.
Healthcare vs. the Profit Principle

Barbara Ehrenreich

Sure we have a healthcare system in America. The trouble is, it's designed not to make people healthy but to make money.
Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?

Liza Featherstone : Labor Organizing & Activism

SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country. Why is he so cozy with corporations?
High Stakes on Health

Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel : Health Care Policy

Campaign '08 is heading for a great debate: Will individualized plans or a broad public guarantee of coverage replace our broken corporate system?
Time to Fix Healthcare

: Electoral Politics

Affordable healthcare is rapidly emerging as the top domestic policy issue in the 2008 presidential race. Candidates, got ideas?

2006

No Rx in Massachusetts

Trudy Lieberman

If it becomes a national model, a new, highly touted health insurance law in Massachusetts would make American healthcare, already on life support, take a turn for the worse.

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