We’re Not Trying to Kill Health Reform
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 21st, 2009 4:32 am by HL
We’re Not Trying to Kill Health Reform
Karen Ignagni, Washington Post
It has been alleged that health insurers commissioned a report recently from PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of a last-ditch effort to kill health-care reform. A relentless public relations campaign has attacked the messengers — our association, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and PricewaterhouseCoopers — as a way of discrediting the findings that major provisions in the Senate Finance Committee proposal will have the unintended effect of increasing the cost of health-care coverage.Let me be clear and direct: Health plans continue to strongly support reform. In fact, last year…
Deeds Needs Sleeping Giants, Game Changers To Win
Kyle Trygstad, RCP
The Commonwealth of Virginia is in the midst of a Democratic victory streak that polls show could come to a halt in two weeks. Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor, has led his Democratic opponent in every poll over the last four months, and currently stands ahead by more than 9 points in the RealClearPolitics Average.For Creigh Deeds, a longtime Democratic state legislator, to win, his campaign knows it must reach the voters that turned Virginia blue in the 2008 presidential election for the first time in 44 years. Deeds will get some help from the man that won that election,…
Buying the Votes of Senior Citizens
Deb Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
