Presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson fought to ensure the implementation and security of Medicare and Social Security, even as Republicans have spent decades trying to eliminate them.
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The ‘Greatest Generation’ is being duped by main street media and the health insurance industry in opposing health care reform.
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Separating fact from fiction, the people we meet on day to day bases who listen to talk radio have been filled with untruths about the current proposed Health Care Legislation HR 3200.
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According to OpenSecrets.org, since 1989, the health insurance industry has given current members of Congress $39.5 million.
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Medicare spending for outpatient prescription drugs rose from $5.9 billion to $44.3 billion
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When Consumers’ Checkbook asked docs where they were most likely to send patients with extremely difficult cases, these are the hospitals they named.
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A Public Health Insurance Plan Part III
Part III – A road map to healthcare reform. If we heed lessons of the past, we can achieve universal coverage. By Jacob S. Hacker with The Christian Science Monitor, February 3, 2009
Berkeley, Calif. – The economic stimulus package just passed by the House contains much to jump-start our [...]
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A Public Health Insurance Plan Part II
Part II – Public Health Plan Would Reduce Costs, Improve Quality
By Mary Agnes Carey with CQ Healthbeat News, February 5, 2009
Allowing Americans to get their health coverage from a public health insurance plan would provide better care that costs less while offering real competition to private health insurers, according [...]
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Part I – Reducing Costs and Improving Quality.
By Frank Clemente with the Institute for America’s Future, Report: February 4, 2009
We can lower health care costs, provide greater efficiency and quality, give more financial security to people facing illness and help cover the costs of insuring the uninsured if we allow a public health insurance plan to [...]
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Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., introduced a bill in Congress that would expand Medicare to cover all Americans. The current bill is H.R. 676, which will provide Universal, Single-Payer, NOT FOR PROFIT Health Care. HR 676 takes health care away from the insurance companies and gives it back to the physicians.
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Congressman John Conyers will reintroduce HR 676, his single-payer healthcare bill in the 111th Congress. Please ask your representative to cosponsor the bill and actively work with Rep. Conyers to gain additional cosponsors. In order to ensure HR 676 is part of the healthcare discussion in Congress, we need 150 cosponsors by the end of [...]
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States Making Drastic Cuts in Medicaid Coverage; Could Leave Indigent Elderly with No Options – State actions may force faster action on national health care system
January 9,2008 – The health care crisis in America may reach a boiling point faster than expected as state governments – struggling to stay out of the red in this [...]
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