This Week’s Perspectives in Health Care Reform - No. 83
Provided by Health Care for All – Washington
Yes, This Health Care Bill Really is Worse than Nothing
by Helen Redmond
In the next few weeks they will be working overtime to persuade, cajole, shame and ruthlessly attack if necessary, anyone opposing health care legislation.
Dr. Scheiner: On Life, Health Care Reform and His Former Patient Obama
by Kennedy Elliott | Medill Reports
He approves the swine flu vaccine, sings to his patients and said he may be one of few people to have been uninvited to the White House. Dr. David Scheiner, President Barack Obama’s former physician, has been serving the Hyde Park community for more than 20 years.
Two-Thirds
of Americans Support Medicare-for-All (#2 Of 6)
by
Kip Sullivan, JD
“They contradicted both beltway and public opinion polls. The whole damn world seems to think the Clinton plan is the way to go. Yet they like the single-payer system, which isn’t even getting considered in Washington.”
Two-thirds of Americans Support Medicare-for-All (#3 of 6)
by Kip Sullivan, JD
In this paper (Part 3 in a six-part series) I will present data from polls that ask about single-payer, and then inquire why some polls show landslide majorities for single-payer and some do not.
Gregoire Releases All-Cuts Budget
by Kathie Durbin | Columbian Staff Writer
Declaring "I do not support this budget," Gov. Chris Gregoire Wednesday presented a spending plan that would close a $2.6 billion budget gap by shredding the state’s safety net of social and health services for the poor and elderly, eliminating early childhood education for 3-year-olds and slashing grants to needy college students.
HMO Stocks Slip Amid Concern over New Regulations
by Lewis Krauskopf | Reuters
Shares of U.S. health insurers lost initial gains on Wednesday as new proposed regulations that are part of efforts to overhaul the health system overshadowed momentum from the decline of a government-run insurance plan.
How Health Care Bills Compare to Lawmakers' Plan
by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | The Associated Press
The
legislation taking shape now in Congress is no carbon copy of what
lawmakers get through the federal employee plan, even if Democrats
cite it as their inspiration.
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