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Washington, DC -- Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, hailed the Supreme Court’s complicated majority decision that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional – as long as the individual mandate is seen as a tax and not an extension of the Interstate Commerce clause. more »

Washington, DC – In advance of President Obama’s speech on deficit reduction, reported to be scheduled for Monday, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday that the President’s plan will not include ‘changes to Social Security’. more »

Washington, DC -- Roger Hickey, Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future, issued the following comments after Democrat Kathy Hochul’s victory in New York’s special election, and about the upcoming Senate vote on the House Republican (Ryan) budget. more »

While insurance industry lobbyists hoping to kill health care reform are shifting their attention to the Senate in the wake of House passage of health reform, Wall Street and bank lobbyists have opened a second front that could harm health reform in an effort to kill the provisions in the health care reconciliation bill that would cut banks out of the student loan business. more »

WASHINGTON – As President Obama’s signature health care bill moves in the Senate, Rep. more »

Historic health care overhaul legislation Democratic leaders predict will pass in the House on Saturday marks a “momentous step toward making a guarantee of quality health care a reality for all Americans,” according to Campaign for America’s Future health care project director Diane Archer who declared her organization’s strong public support for the bill today.

Progressive bloggers and activists are focused on pushing comprehensive health care reform this year and overwhelmingly support Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., over Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., for the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nomination, according to a straw poll at this year’s Netroots Nation convention conducted by the Campaign for America’s Future and Democracy Corps.

WASHINGTON – Campaign for America’s Future health care project director Diane Archer today praised the House for introducing a health reform bill that delivers on President Obama’s vision. Archer declared that America's Affordable Health Choices Act is designed to control costs and deliver quality affordable health care to all. She said the bill, if passed without serious changes, can accomplish these goals.

As the health reform debate heats up in Congress, the Institute for America’s Future today released the names of prominent health care experts and economists available for analysis and interviews. All the experts favor a public health insurance option to compete with private plans, but they are good sources on all developing issues related to the health care debate.

WASHINGTON – Progressives gathered at this week’s “America’s Future Now” conference found a lot to like in President Obama’s first 100 days, but they are very focused on health care reform as their highest priority, according to a straw poll of participants conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the Campaign for America’s Future and Democracy Corps. more »