Blog Archive: June, 2009


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No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible

By Phillip Cryan
June 30, 2009

Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – cooperatives, state or regional plans, a “trigger” for the public plan, a public plan prohibited from bargaining with drug companies – such profoundly bad ideas?

For one simple reason: they would fail to rein in health care costs’ out-of-control growth rate. read more »

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Progressive Breakfast: Senate HELP Draft Has Public Option

By Bill Scher
June 30, 2009

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Pecora Commission To Be Named This Week?

By Bill Scher
June 29, 2009

Word is circulating in Washington that members for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will be named this week. read more »

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Madoff: Fall Guy or First of Many?

By Eric Lotke
June 29, 2009

Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history. But there is no closure here. We can’t let Madoff’s sentence distract us from the underlying problems. This isn’t just about Madoff. This is about the system in which Madoff’s scam took place.

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Progressive Breakfast: Climate Battle Heads To Senate

By Bill Scher
June 29, 2009

Will Senate Follow House on Climate? read more »

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2044: The Novel Comes True

By Eric Lotke
June 26, 2009

Remember a while ago I wrote about my new novel, 2044? 2044 starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace. read more »

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End Health Disparities With Health Care For All

By Terrance Heath
June 26, 2009

The debate over health care reform has taken a particularly worrisome turn. Suddenly we're in a place where passing something kind of like reform may be more important than getting to reform itself. In the name of "compromise" and in interest of getting something passed, we could get a health reform bill that helps fewer people than originally intended, and preserve more of the status quo than almost anyone wants.

For minorities low income families and individuals, that means more of the kind of disparities — in access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes — that are all too common in our present health care system. The 2008 National Health Care Qualities & Disparities report spells out some of these disparities, including: higher rates of disease, access to care, and lack of routine care and prevention.

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'Incomes Surge'? Furloughs Tell A Different Story

By Isaiah J. Poole
June 26, 2009

I suspected there was something being left unsaid when the headlines began streaming this morning that personal incomes in May surged 1.4 percent. And, indeed, there was. read more »

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Progressive Breakfast: Climate Bill In The House

By Bill Scher
June 26, 2009
Climate Vote Expected Today in House read more »

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A Health Insurance Insider Blows the Whistle on the Industry's Abusive Practices

By Monica Sanchez
June 25, 2009

“My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years, I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.”

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