by paradocs2 Daily Kos Sun Jun 07, 2009 Most people are unaware how similar the major health insurers are to our failed Wall Street firms.They are corporate cash cows and have virtually no fiduciary responsibility and few activities for protecting or improving health or the health care system.They will devote their vast resources to prevent [...]
Archive for June 9th, 2009
9 Jun
JUSTICE
thinkprogress.org Judges Not For Sale In a 5-4 decision yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled “that elected judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias.” The decision, “the first to say the Constitution’s due process clause has a role to play in policing the role of [...]
9 Jun
Opinions
Opinions Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Eugene Robinson The Importance of Being Obama The president’s Cairo speech shows the power of his personal history. David M. Smick Geithner’s Last Laugh The Chinese may be laughing now, but Tim Geithner may have the last laugh. Kevin Baine Making Law on the Court A little honesty about what [...]
9 Jun
OLDER UNINSURED FACE HIGH COSTS, DENIAL OF COVERAGE
OLDER UNINSURED FACE HIGH COSTS, DENIAL OF COVERAGE LEGISLATION COULD GRANT EARLY ACCESS TO MEDICARE By Liv Osby HEALTH WRITER, Greenville Online June 8, 2009 Realtor Sandra Davis had group health insurance through her job all her life, but the builder she worked for dropped coverage last year as the housing market slumped. So the [...]
9 Jun
West Bank Settlements and the Future of U.S.-Israeli Relations
June 8, 2009 By George Friedman Amid the rhetoric of U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech June 4 in Cairo, there was one substantial indication of change, not in the U.S. relationship to the Islamic world but in the U.S. relationship to Israel. This shift actually emerged prior to the speech, and the speech merely touched [...]
9 Jun
Today’s Issues
BERNIE HORN Why Not Single-Payer? The question most frequently asked by progressive activists at last week’s America’s Future Now conference was this: We hear Obama and congressional Democrats talking about a public health insurance option, but why aren’t they talking about a single-payer system like H.R. 676 sponsored by Rep. John Conyers? Why is single-payer [...]
9 Jun
The American Health Choices Act
thinkprogress.org HEALTH CARE The American Health Choices Act Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is circulating draft legislation designed to overhaul the nation’s health care system. This so-called “draft of a draft” is the first piece of concrete health reform legislation to emerge from Democrats in Congress. [...]
