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Health Reform Lies and Deceptions

Many of the claims about what the Senate health bill will actually do are false. The bill is rifled with major distortions and outright lies.The...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Health Care Reform, Part 8, Costs: Potential, Real, & Imaginary

Much has been said about the potential "costs" of health care reform, in reference to HR 3200, now pending in Congress. Despite the...
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Health Care Reform, Part 7: Some Problems with Current Legislation

I think the "public option" has been covered fairly well in previous posts. The public option does not cost taxpayers anything whatsoever...
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