Over the past few weeks, House and Senate Democratic leaders have been working to craft a compromise between their two health care bills that were passed over the last few months. more »
A health care reform bill signed in 2009 might not have come in time to save the life of Melanie Shouse, who died of breast cancer last month at the age of 41. But what we do know is that the lives of thousands of other women like her are at risk because, one year after Congress and the Obama administration began working on health care reform, legislative progress is gridlocked. more »
Health care reform suffered the torments of partisan obstruction. Now gird yourself for financial reform and the perils of bipartisan blight.
In health care, lockstep Republican opposition caused months of delay, and empowered the likes of Connecticut's embittered Senator Joe Lieberman and Nebraska's compromised Ben Nelson to exact cankerous concessions to forge a super-majority.
Co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey look back at the progressive movement in 2009 and discuss what it will take to win the political challenges of 2010. They argue that the past year has shown the necessity of an independent progressive movement to hold President Obama to his promises and to hold Congress accountable to the people. more »
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I'd like to give a big thank you to Dr. Howard Dean for having the courage to say what millions of Progressives nation wide are thinking. Where is the actual reform in the Senate Health Care Reform Bill? Where is the competition to the Private Insurers to keep costs down? more »
motherjones.com — The GOP has capitalized on the recent uproar over revised mammogram recommendations as proof that the federal government is trying to ration your health care. But we must take on the bad decisions and perverse incentives that have made America's health care system No. 37 in the world—even though we're No. 1 in per-capita spending.
Our bloggers Terrance Heath and Bill Scher dive into the question that is now dominating progressive political debate: Has the health care reform bill been so seriously compromised—first with the dilution and ultimate elimination of the public option and now with the capitulation to the demands of two senators to not even allow persons 55 and over to buy in to the Medicare program—that it's no more »
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Our bloggers Terrance Heath and Bill Scher dive into the question that is now dominating progressive political debate: Has the health care reform bill been so seriously compromised—first with the dilution and ultimate elimination of the public option and now with the capitulation to the demands of two senators to not even allow persons 55 and over to buy in to the Medicare program—that it's no more »
In the states represented by the four senators in the Democratic caucus who are threatening progress on health care reform, there are almost 2 million people without health insurance, according to state-by-state health care reform impact reports released by the Department of Health and Human Services. more »
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