Center for American Progress By Ruy Teixeira | August 3, 2009 Health care reform is still quite popular, contrary to what you may have heard. What’s taking a hit is the multiple reform plans being batted around in Congress, which have confused the public and given conservatives a terrific opportunity to road test every antireform [...]
Archive for August 7th, 2009
7 Aug
FEDERAL PROGRAMS ADVERSELY AFFECT SENIORS’ RETIREMENT
W.O. Landen Jr. Sunday, July 26, 2009 Independent Mail In 2000, members of Congress enacted federal tax code health-care benefits for themselves while denying the same tax breaks for seniors. Federal officials pay health-nsurance premiums on a pre-tax basis, for a yearly savings of more than $700, and can establish tax-sheltered medical care spending accounts [...]
7 Aug
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform
By Steven Pearlstein Friday, August 7, 2009 As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don’t agree. Today, I’m going to step over that line. The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care [...]
7 Aug
Healthcare — Trying to Understand the Issues
We are all being inundated with information and misinformation on the health care reform activities in both the House and the Senate these days. Separating the wheat from the chaff is pretty difficult given the dearth of available factual literature. It’s amazing how many people are for or against a specific item-such as single-payer–when they [...]
