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The Return of the Granny Bashers: More Attacks on Social Security and Medicare |
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By Dean Baker
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Monday 05 May 2008
Last month, a bipartisan group of prominent budget experts had a press event at the Brookings Institution where they argued that Congress had to make major cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They claimed large cuts in these programs were necessary in order to prevent the explosion in the budget deficit that is projected if these programs stay on their current course.
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Pushing the Single-Payer Solution |
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By Amy Goodman
King Features Syndicate
Posted on April 24, 2008
As the media coverage of the Democratic presidential race continues to focus on lapel pins and pastors, America is ailing. As I travel around the country, I find people are angry and motivated. Like Dr. Rocky White, a physician from a conservative, evangelical background who practices in rural Alamosa, Colo. A tall, gray-haired Westerner in black jeans, a crisp white shirt and a bolo tie, Dr. White is a leading advocate for single-payer health care. He wasn't always.
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Finding Health Insurance if You Are Self-Employed |
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New York Times
March 27, 2008
Shifting Careers
By MARCI ALBOHER
If there is one thing that separates the self-employed from those employed by others, it is their preoccupation with health insurance.
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The Politics of Health Care Reform—Part 1 |
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From: The Coffee House
By Maggie Mahar - April 8, 2008, 12:25PM
It is time, I think, to face the realpolitik of health care reform. This means asking a question few reformers dare to discuss: How will we win the Congressional votes needed to pass universal care?
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Providing health care for all shouldn't make insurers rich |
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By Milton Fisk and Kay Mueller
Herald-Times
Guest column
April 24, 2008
Government subsidies and outsourcing may be good for business without always being good for the public. Medicare outsources the administration of its prescription drug program, Medicare D, to private insurers. Medicare Advantage — Medicare C — subsidizes managed care insurance plans for seniors choosing them. Several current presidential aspirants — Clinton and Obama — would subsidize the purchase of insurance for the low-income uninsured. Each of these plans offers private insurers protection against a less wasteful plan, one that does without private insurers.
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Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs |
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New York Times
May 4, 2008 By REED ABELSON and MILT FREUDENHEIM
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
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Insurers put squeeze on those already in a hurt |
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Columbus Dispatch, Wednesday, January 9, 2008
By Froma Harrop
Crowding out sounds like a bad thing. The Bush administration uses that fearsome term in denying recent requests by Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma and, no doubt, other states to expand Medicaid to families not considered poor. Bush argues that opening the government program to middle-class people would prompt many to drop their private coverage.
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