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Posted at June 26, 2009 at 1:35 pm
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Here’s a quote from Sen. Jay Rockerfeller (D-WV) about bipartisanship and health care reform…
“But do you want to be non-partisan and get nothing? Or do you want to be partisan and end up with a good health care plan? That is the choice.”
– Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), quoted in the Charleston Gazette, expecting little Republican support in passing health care reform.
Sen. Grassley, however, thinks the bill must be bipartisan and Republicans need to make sure there is no public option. Related Posts:
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Posted at June 24, 2009 at 8:57 am
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Posted at June 21, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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The Des Moines Register wrote this editorial this morning about the merits of a public option.
So how do you decide whether a public option for health insurance is a good idea?
Ask people who already have it.
And you won’t have any trouble finding them. About one-third of Americans - nearly 100 million people - already use Medicare and Medicaid, which together cover seniors, the disabled and the poor. The programs are administered by the government and heavily funded by taxpayers.
They’re optional. No one has to sign up. But millions do.
Ask them why they opted to join a government program instead of just going out to purchase health insurance in the private sector, as every American is free to try to do. Ask people with Medicaid whether the government has denied enrolling them (if they met income requirements) or charged them more because of a pre-existing medical condition. Ask seniors with Medicare whether they’re worried about losing health insurance if they change jobs or get too sick or can no longer afford to pay the premiums.
If you have time for only one question, ask this: Did a government employee accompany you to your last doctor’s appointment?
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 21, 2009 at 9:22 am
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Matthew Yglesisas explanes the paradox of health care reform that left must overcome…
The big problem, politically speaking, with health care is that you basically have people on the left arguing both sides of the question. On the one hand, insofar as your plan is “big government” that’s left-wing. But insofar as your plan is expensive, that’s also left-wing. Which is because people normally think of big government programs as expensive. But when it comes to health care, heavy-handed government intervention is actually way cheaper than private sector alternatives. Consequently, every time you try to make the plan more “moderate” by, for example, curbing the influence of a public option you actually wind up making the plan more “left wing” by needing to raise more taxes. And if you want to make the plan cheaper, while still actually achieving its goals, then you need to make it more left-wing not more moderate. But in the United States,ideological correctness and special interest politics prevents us from admitting this.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 18, 2009 at 9:58 pm
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Posted at June 12, 2009 at 7:48 am
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Posted at June 7, 2009 at 10:20 am
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Ezra Klein makes a great point in a story at the Washington Post.
…most workers think stagnant wages mean their employer is paying them less. They don’t know that the main reason for stagnant wages is that their wage increases are going to pay for their health insurance premiums. If they did — if they realized that compensation is pretty much a zero-sum endeavor and their employers don’t so much buy them health insurance as garnish their wages to pay for their health insurance — you’d probably see a lot more general anger at rising health care costs.
It’s time to start getting angrier and demand real health care reform. Our ineffiecient health care system means businesses have to pay more and workers make less.
Real health care reform must take the costs off businesses and let business do what they do best. I don’t really want Wal Mart or John Deere or a small business to be providing health care or John Deere. I want Wal Mart to sell things and John Deere to build tractors and small businesses to make local economies stronger.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at June 6, 2009 at 11:23 am
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Posted at June 4, 2009 at 9:43 am
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A new study says that Americans with health insurance pay $1,000 in a hidden tax to cover the health care of those who are uninsured.
“I don’t think anybody has any idea about how much they are paying because of the need to cover the health care costs of the uninsured,” said Ron Pollack, the group’s executive director. “This is a hidden tax on all insurance premiums, whether it is paid by business for their work or by families when they purchase their own coverage.”
As President Obama and Congress take up health care legislation this year, the so-called hidden tax is increasingly becoming a talking point as proof that the U.S. health care system needs to be fixed:
• Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., in a May 11 statement announcing policy options for expanding health care coverage, said: “The cost of that care is paid by every American with insurance in the form of a hidden tax of more than $1,000 a year in increased premiums.”
The United States pays the most money of any country on health care, but have a large number of people without health insurance. Those with health insurance have to pick up the costs of the uninsured as they lack preventative care and must go to emergency rooms or without much needed care. This inefficient system raises health care costs on everyone and is the reason we must have a universal health care system.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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Posted at May 30, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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Interesting announcement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
From Smart Growth Around America…
Yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics adopted a ground-breaking policy statement on the link between how we build communities and the health of the children in those communities. The American Academy of Pediatrics policy:
- reviews the many links between community design and overall child health, and the strong statistical validation of those links;
- encourages pediatricians to work with parents to promote more walkable, livable communities,
- calls on cities, states, and the US government to plan for and invest in communities that best advance the health, safety, and well being of American families.
This is really remarkable: the nation’s leading group of pediatricians saying, based on the evidence, that the way we’re building isn’t good for kids.
While we are facing an economic downturn, now is the time where cities can promote infill development, new urbanism principles, and more bike/pedistrian-friendly in their development patterns.
Read more at Century of the Common Iowan.
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