Archive for the ‘Health Care Reform Debate’ Category
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Washington is now brewing for a debate about new health care regulations (a.k.a. "reform"). In one camp, we have the Senator Wyden sponsored Healthy Americans Act (HAA), along with 14 other senators. Together they sent a letter to President-elect Obama promoting the HAA and pushing their agenda for mandatory health ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
If you would like a quick analysis of the similarities and differences of the two presidential candidates' vision for health care, below is a link a short document on the Council for Affordable Health Insurance website. Feel free to post a reply with agreement or disagreement as it would be ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a document that states both liberal and conservative analyst agree that McCain's tax credit incentives for purchasing individual health plans would strengthen the the individual and small group insurance market by pulling some people out of the employment-based insurance programs. Yes, that's the point, and ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
In Froma Harrop's syndicated column appearing in The Seattle Times on June 6, 2008 (Obama's health care lite), she briefly states her opinion of McCain's and Obama's health care platforms. She grudgingly gives credit to McCain's tax credits and subsidies for low income people to buy health insurance (hello, these ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
On May 27th, 2008 The Seattle Times published an article by Robert Pear reporting that the "SEC changes position on health policy" stating that companies must allow shareholders to vote on universal coverage as a proxy item. I agree that everyone needs access to health insurance coverage but disagree that ...
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