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[1]The Time Is Now For Health Care Reform [1]
With health care costs skyrocketing, 57 million American families — or one in five, up from one in seven in 2003 — are struggling with medical bills.
Robert Reich [2] and Jacob Hacker [3] say a public plan option is essential to affordable health care for all. Millions of Americans are making the call for real health care reform [4].
» Katrina vanden Heuvel: "Real Health, Real Reform" [5]
» Bill Scher: "Memo To Deficit Hawks: Public Plan Option Indisputably Saves Money" [6]
» Dean Baker: "What's So Scary About Offering People the Option of a Public Health Plan?" [7]
» Terrance Heath: "End Health Disparities With Health Care For All" [8]
» Plus more! [1]
Why We Need A Public Plan Choice [1]
With health care costs skyrocketing, 57 million American families — or one in five, up from one in seven in 2003 — are struggling with medical bills.
Robert Reich [2] and Jacob Hacker [3] say a public plan option is essential to affordable health care for all. A new Health Care for America Now! report documents how serious the problem will become without a reform that includes public plan choice.
» Robert Reich challenges Democrats [2] to stand up for a public plan, and read "Why We Need A Public Health Care Plan" [9]
» Jacob Hacker tells a House committee [3] why a public plan is the way to keep private insurance companies honest.
» Read the report and our interactive map [10]
» Check out our Special Health Care Page: Why We Can't Wait [11]
» Two reports underscore how health care reform with a public plan option would affect economic growth. Read the reports and related resources [12]
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Links:
[1] http://www.ourfuture.org/features/2009062623/health-care-affordability
[2] http://www.ourfuture.org/audio-media/2009062623/senate-democrats-challenged-stand-public-plan-choice
[3] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009062623/make-health-care-affordable-and-accountable
[4] http://tools.advomatic.com/8/reform
[5] http://www.ourfuture.org/progressive-opinion/2009072809/real-health-real-reform
[6] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009072702/memo-deficit-hawks-public-plan-option-indisputably-saves-money
[7] http://www.ourfuture.org/progressive-opinion/2009072808/whats-so-scary-about-offering-people-option-public-health-plan
[8] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009062626/end-health-disparities-health-care-all
[9] http://www.ourfuture.org/progressive-opinion/2009062625/why-we-need-public-health-care-plan
[10] http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2009062623/health-insurance-coverage-keeps-shrinking-premiums-family-costs-climb-even-higher
[11] http://www.ourfuture.org/page/2009062625/health-care-09-why-we-cant-wait
[12] http://www.ourfuture.org/healthandtheeconomy