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Healthcare Reform Part 15: Without Public Option, Plan Worse Than Nothing

Most Democrats still insist that the “public option” is a make-or-break issue for the health care legislation. Included among those is...

Health Care Reform Part 14--More Propaganda From the Insurance Industry

Once again, the health insurance industry is disseminating propaganda to oppose health care reform. Today's cost-analysis from America's Health...

Health Care Reform Part 13--Baucus Plan = Health Insurance & Big Pharma Profit Enhancement Bill

The Baucus Bill has now been kicked to the curb by almost everyone who's heard anything about it. And rightly so. I'm going to kick it a little...

Health Care Reform Part 12--Lies: Cost Shifting

Health Insurance Companies continue to perpetuate the fairy tale about "cost-shfting"—the notion that the cost of uncompensated...

Health Care Reform, Part 11--Costs: "Affordability Credits"

HR 3200's costs are due almost entirely to the Affordability Credits. The language pertaining to these credits is confusing and difficult to follow...

Swine Flu: Tamiflu Resistance Discovered

According to a report today from the Associated Press, there's now evidence that Swine Flu is developing resistance to Tamiflu, the main antiviral...

Health Care Reform, Part 10--Public Option or Private Insurance: Can't We Have Both?

Much has been said to the effect that we need single payer and that the "public option" will drive out private insurance--and that the...

Health Care Reform, Part 9: Notes from PBS interview with Marcia Angell, M.D. & Trudy Lieberman

On July 24, 2009, PBS aired an excellent Bill Moyers' interview with 2 experts in the field of health care and health care reform--journalist Trudy...