health care reform

I was trying to decide whether the Obama admin would get a bigger backlash by pushing the affordable health care bill through via other means, or by seeing it crater. Don't know really. I don't think this is working out very well for the US but others opinion might differ. (I confess I have a US...

Does anyone know what they have agreed upon so far in the House-Senate negotiations? will there at least be a non-profit co-op plan for Americans to buy into? i want there to be some sort of non-corporate plan for us to buy into.

White House nears deal on health care How can anyone support these clowns anymore? Whether you're anti-union or not, making special tax breaks available only to people who happen to be in unions is an affront to the idea of equality under the law.

OK, I confess that I have only a layman's understanding of economics and the health care debate, so I'm a little confused about the proposal to make purchasing health insurance mandatory. How exactly is it supposed to help? When last I checked, the primary problem with American health care is...

Is health care a right? Source Is there a doctor in the house? What say you?

Amish families exempt from insurance mandate HEALTH REFORM: People with religious objections can opt out WASHINGTON — Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine. Hundreds of Amish families in the...

Video: James Madison Impersonator James Madison - Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rReS6uA-C_A&feature=related The above is part 1 of a video of a James Madison Impersonator (JMI) shot in July, 2008. The JMI is about the same height and weight of James Madison and bears a striking...

"President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation's editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation's health care system. Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between...

I am by most standards a liberal and I am 110% FOR tax payer style universal health care. But I have to say that I am somewhat in agreement with the argument here from the republicans. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/02/AR2010010200620_2.html?sid=ST2010010200649...

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-22564-Des-Moines-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d23-Senate-hypocrites-refuse-ObamaCare-for-themselves-force-it-on-everyone-else

Is it a smart (or good) strategy for the controlling party to reform programs/institutions in ways they would traditionally campaign against? I'm thinking, for example, when Clinton reformed welfare programs in the mid-90s. Though making cuts to welfare may have been traditionally something...

I don't believe these health care bill items are Constitutional (and I'm sure there are many more). Care to discuss this? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704398304574598130440164954.html The Constitution gives us equal protection under the law (14th Amendment). So why are...

I haven't followed the health care debate closely. At some point, I realized that the final bill would be a bunch of compromises and backroom deals and whatever else had to be done to get the required number of votes. It didn't seem likely that my knowledge would have much effect. Now...

OK, I have held long standing views on health care in America for a while now, and after listening to This American Life’s two-part special on health care from back in October, it threw a lot of my firmly held beliefs in doubt. I used to think that health insurance companies and drug companies...

Why not make Medical Insurance Companies 'illegal'...? They don't provide any real service, do they? They are literally the middle man, between you and your medical care provider. They literally make profits, by denying claims... It's your money, that you pool, so that when the Edited, re...

Wildcat has posted his views on health care reform in numerous threads, and I'd like to see some debate on its merits. They are: I think it's a damn good idea myself, for a number of reasons. Everyone is covered, and no one can be denied. Getting health care out of employers hands benefits...

Sounds like the liberal and conservative Democrats have reach an agreement, and they're sending a final version to the CBO: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/08/health.care/index.html It sounds like the trade-off was nixing the abortion language in exchange for leaving out the public option.

5 pages of recommended reading This is the first thoughtful discussion of the subject that I have seen.

Story here Dr. Novella is one of the Skeptics of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, BTW. It's one thing for fools to waste their own money on quackery, but I can't support public money going to this. If opponents of abortion can demand that public money never pay for abortion, it...

I know there are plenty of example of political games in the legislative process, but I found this pretty interesting: Dems defeat GOP on restoring $40B in Medicare cuts Essentially Democrats first promised $460 billion in "cuts" or "savings" in the existing Medicare program. Republicans, not...

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/27/obamacares-cost-could-top-6-trillion/ Would a $5 trillion dollar difference in the real cost versus what we are being told will be the cost constitute a mistake or a lie on part of those claiming the cost will be $1 trillion over 10 years? I say the...

Can The Onion do no wrong? :D http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/like_hell_im_going_to_let_some And it gets better from there on in.

Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle Seems as if the two teams stuck to their guns. It was Dems 60 and Repubs 39 (1 didn't vote), with nobody crossing the aisle. Now the actual debate will begin, without the threat of a healthcare reform killing filibuster. I think the GOP just...

Um...would such a plan..that requires all 350 million Americans to buy health insurance, pass the SCOTUS? I mean, its one thing to require all drivers to have a license and all car-owners to purchase auto-insurance, but requiring people to buy health insurance simply because they live and...

i was in america recently. in the media barrack obama is getting a tough time because of his health bill. why? isn't it a great thing? i think the insurance companies stand to lose millions so they are turning the media against him.

Among other things, the right to privacy between doctor and patient that justifies abortion, can be applied to general medical decisions. Unlawful health reform? Other choice chunks...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/cbo-senate-bill-costs-849-billion-major-deficit-reducer.php?ref=fpa CBO is non-partisan, isn't it? Any reason to doubt these numbers?

The Stupak amendment is the amendment prohibiting insurance coverage for abortions for people who get subsidies. But people can purchase a rider. Here's the thing. It would actually save the insurance company money for an insured woman to get an abortion. A first trimester abortion costs a...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599193770500 If this traitor from Connecticut, actually does help the Republicans kill health-care reform in the Senate, this is how he will be known..as the Jew who killed health care. I pray, he comes to his senses. He is in the Senate because of the...

There is now an issue in the Senate regarding the issue of Abortion in the UHC. The issue is that because at least one Senator believes that Federal funds should not be used to provide for an abortion (because Abortion is murder to them)...