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Support for the Public Option Keeps Getting Stronger

By Roger Hickey
October 26, 2009

“New Life for the Public Option” is the headline of Dan Balz’s excellent article in Sunday’s Washington Post.  It’s not an accident that this powerful idea has made yet another comeback.  And it is not surprising that public and Congressional support, always read more »

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The House Will Make Sure the Senate Includes a Robust Public Option

By Roger Hickey
October 19, 2009

This is the moment when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (and President Obama) should make history by producing a Senate health reform bill that

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President Obama: Make Sure Families Can Afford the Insurance They Are Forced to Buy

By Roger Hickey
September 8, 2009

When President Obama speaks before the Congress on Wednesday night, he will tell the nation in more specific detail what he wants to do to make the health care system work for everyone. 

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Let's Pass Ted Kennedy's Health Plan

By Roger Hickey
August 31, 2009

Let’s get a few things straight:   

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Don't Tax Benefits

By Roger Hickey
July 13, 2009

Americans are demanding health care reform that guarantees them quality, affordable insurance, reduces the burden of health costs on employers and individuals and provides backup coverage through a public health insurance option.

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I Pledge to Buy a Made-in-U.S. Car

By Roger Hickey
May 18, 2009

If lots of us buy American—and Obama and Congress act—we can revive U.S. manufacturing.

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A Public Plan is Healthy Competition

By Roger Hickey
April 8, 2009

Jacob Hacker’s 2006 book, The Great Risk Shift, helped politicians understand the economic pressures on the average family — including the rising costs and increasing loss of health insurance — or the threat.

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An Election, a Budget, and Two Summits = A Bold Obama Strategy for Health Care Change.

By Roger Hickey
March 8, 2009

Like most participants in President Obama’s Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our Health Care for America Now coalition have been urging: read more »

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Sound The Alarm! Peterson Foundation Assault On "Entitlements"

By Roger Hickey
February 5, 2009

At a press conference today by Wall Street mogul Peter Peterson, he and his invited speakers informed Americans who are losing their jobs and homes in record numbers that our nation’s biggest problem is the national deficit—and that the solution is to cut Social Security and Medicare.

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A Dangerous Plan for Health Care

By Roger Hickey
October 14, 2008

The phenomenal financial crash of the past few weeks has hammered home what should be common sense: A free market needs reasonable rules that safeguard the public interest. So why would we accept the conservative argument that we should use that recipe for disaster to reform an already failing health-care system?

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