“What we’re seeing here is a legislation that doesn’t even kick in until 2014, except for one or two items on staying with your parents’ insurance policy until you’re twenty-six. That means that there will be 180,000 Americans who will die between now and 2014 before any coverage expands, and hundreds of thousands of injuries and illnesses untreated. This bill [...]
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| While I disagree with Senator Pridemore that a bad bill with a couple of good provisions is better than no bill at all, Craig deserves praise for staking out a very clear position on health care reform. The Democrats have to pass legislation that will provide health care at a reasonable cost to both businesses and individuals. It needs to be [...] Looks like the Health Care Summit and Michael Bennet’s letter has resulted in some momentum in the Senate to revive the public option: In the wake of last week’s “bipartisan summit” — which proved that no Republicans in Congress will vote for health care reform — an avalanche of Democratic senators are announcing today that they will vote YES for the public health [...] From the African T-shirt Factory (click image to buy) This comment posted below this article, Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited, says it all about what is happening to the health care reform legislation: mujeriego November 6th, 2009 3:53 pm Health reform can never happen in the US until you have campaign finance reform. As long as the insurance industry can throw [...] var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2hlYWx0aGNhcmUva2lsbC1iaWxsLzx3cHRiPktpbGwgdGhlIEJpbGw8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmRlbW9jcmFjeWZvcnZhbmNvdXZlci5vcmc8d3B0Yj5EZW1vY3JhY3kgZm9yIFZhbmNvdXZlcg%3D%3D”; | Available Streams 2    | ||||
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