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• Health Reform: Abortion is the Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  As a Baptist minister from Nebraska born in Louisiana, I have watched from the pulpit as three formative events profoundly reshaped America’s view of its destiny and possibilities: the 9-11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the recent economic meltdown. I hoped that this year, life would be better for my ...
  4 days ago

• Three provisions constitute the vicious heart of the Democrats health-care overhaul

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 139
  So lets get straight what the real essentials of the bill are-and how disastrous they are... When you understand what this bill does, you can see why the Democrats would be happy to compromise and drop the public option-for now. This bill so comprehensively wrecks private health insurance that pretty soon a "public ...
  1 week ago

• New Health Care Deal: They’re On The Run!

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  First, a brief congratulations to all on having seemingly killed the public option. Without our efforts, it would be en route to becoming law. Now there will not be a government owned, government run and government subsidized insurance company that will put all others out of business. But the current proposal Reid ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Democrats Remove Public Option From Health Care Bill

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 479
  A group of 5 moderate and 5 liberal Democrats tasked by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to reach a compromise on health care legislation has struck an agreement removing the public option from the bill.  Instead, the bill will empower the government’s Office of Personnel Management to put in place a ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Kills Nelson Amendment

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Tonight, the Senate defeated an attempt by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE), Orrin Hatch (R-OR) and Bob Casey (D-PA) to insert a "Stupak" amendment into the Senate health reform bill. After many long hours of debate and grandstanding, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) called for a vote to table the Nelson Amendment.  A vote to ...
  1 week ago

• (VIDEO) Mikulski: "Universal Access to Health Care Is As Pro-Life And Whole Life as You Can Be"

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Yesterday, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) took her Democratic colleague Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)--and much of the Republican party and the anti-choice movement--"to school."  Calling health reform that offers truly universal access both "pro-life," and "whole-life," Mikulski, by turns passionate and sardonic, ...
  1 week ago

• With Public Option Reported Nearly Dead, Will Medicare Expansion Give Health Reform Life?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 715
  (photo: randomduck) The endgame on the public option could come as early as today. The negotiations seem to be coalescing around an expansion of Medicare and Medicaid as an alternative, some unnamed stronger insurance regulations, and additional elements, amidst a host of questions. Would there be anything at ...
  1 week ago

• How the Senate Health Bill Creates Inequities Among American Workers

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 737
  The closer you look at the 2074 page Senate Health Bill (H.R. 3590), the more and more complicated it becomes. Forget that level playing field. As the Congress tries to figure out how to extend health insurance coverage to all Americans (They won’t, of course), Senate Democrats have proposed a federally designed ...
  1 week ago

• Is Senator Coburn a Closet Pro-Choicer?

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Is it possible that one of the Senates most vociferous opponents of womens reproductive rights and one of its most adamant ideologues is actually a closet pro-choicer?   Or is he just stealing our slogans? Or maybe day after droning day of rhetoric on health care reform emanating from the Senate floor, I am ...
  1 week ago

• Thirteen Religious Organizations Call on Senate to Reject Stupak Language

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Calling universal access to high quality comprehensive health care services "a social and moral obligation," 13 religious organizations sent a letter to members of the Senate calling on them to maintain current language in the Senate bill and to vote against efforts to amend the bill with Stupak language. ...
  1 week ago

• *Updated* Nelson To Offer "Stupak-Like" Amendment In Senate Today

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Reports indicate that Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) intends to introduce an amendment to the Senate health-care bill today to mimic restrictions under the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the House health reform bill. Nelson continues to call his amendment "Stupak-like" language, but the actual  amendment has not yet ...
  1 week ago

• The Costly Insurance Exchange

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  Many people believe a highly-regulated health insurance exchange is the key to affordable health insurance for families not offered coverage through work. Massachusetts has an exchange similar to the one proposed in the Senate and House health reform bills. Yet, an analysis of the least expensive policies for a family ...
  2 weeks ago

• How the Bishops Lost Sight of Their Own Priorities

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  This article is co-authored by Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program and a member of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress , and Ellen-Marie Whelan, a Senior Health Policy Analyst and Associate Director of Health Policy at the Center for American ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ben Nelson Latest Elected Official to Ask Catholic Bishops to Give Their Approval to US Law

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Just in case you had any doubt about the direct--and I mean direct--intervention of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in curtailing womens rights in US health reform legislation, here is the latest evidence of how some representatives are working at what appears to be the behest of the bishops. Congressional ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stopping the Stupid - Er, I Mean Stupak - Amendment

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  Sometimes you dont need to be psychic to see the future. Back in July, I wrote about why I couldnt support health care reform unless it included the full spectrum of reproductive rights, including abortion . A few months after that, a representative from Michigan forced through an amendment that would effectively ...
  2 weeks ago

• Common Sense vs. the CBO on ObamaCare

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  Both the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill would require employers above a certain size to provide health insurance for their workers or face some sort of penalty. The House bill that passed last month would require employers to pay an 8% additional payroll tax for not insuring their workers. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stupak: Aberration or Power Outage in the Pro-Choice Movement?

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  TheStupak amendment, which robs women of insurance coverage for abortion, hascaused all of us to mobilize to redress the damage done by this historicassault on a woman’s right to choose. While this campaign should be ourimmediate focus for the coming weeks, it should not prevent us from analyzing thefactors that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (73) The Senate Bill Will Reduce the Cost of Non-Group Health Insurance

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 429
       Mike Allen at The Politico has posted an article stating that Jonathan Gruber, an economist at MIT, has issued a report concluding that individuals will pay less for health insurance under the Senate health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act .      In two ...
  2 weeks ago

• Advocacy Groups Form Coalition to Stop Stupak and Pass Health Reform Legislation

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  A broad group of advocacy organizations from the progressive and women’s health communities has joined together to form the Coalition to Pass Health Care Reform and Stop Stupak!   The coalition’s goal is to ensure that health care reform is passed and does not restrict women’s ability to purchase private ...
  3 weeks ago

• There’s a Reason Why Health Reform Must Include a Viable Public Option

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 715
  With so much attention focused on four conservative, obstructionist Democrats, the Democratic leadership seems driven to find some way to placate them. So, it’s easy to forget that there are compelling reasons why health reform should not get watered down or sidetracked to satisfy the egos and fears of Joe ...
  3 weeks ago

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