Health Bill Represents Giant Step Forward
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 25th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Health Bill Represents Giant Step Forward
A Toast to Our Heroes
David Ignatius, Washington Post
31 Million Reasons to Support This Bill
Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio
American families know first-hand that health insurance premiums have been skyrocketing,” Brown said. “This bill will lower costs for middle class families with insurance, while providing help to 31 million Americans who lack it. And insurers will have to play by a new set of rules, including an immediate ban on pre-existing condition exclusions for children.The bill also invests in small businesses – providing an immediate tax credit to help employers cover their workers. If we're going to rebuild our economy, we need to ensure that small businesses – which create more than 64…
What Would Real Health Care Reform Look Like?
Ronald Bailey, Reason
While congressional reform efforts screech and shudder along, let's take a moment to dream about real health care reform. Imagine a system that is genuinely transparent, competitive, and driven by consumers.Right now, thanks to incentives built into the tax code,patients are locked into the health plans their employers choose.Consequently, most of us don't have a clue what our healthinsurance and health care cost. We have no way to reduce thosecosts and no incentive to do so even if we could. Worse yet, it'sprecisely when you need the system the most that it fails you. Inthe…
Man-Made Global Warming is a Farce
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation
