Health Care For America Now

NEWS

A Public Health Insurance Plan that Delivers Market Discipline - Center for American Progress Action Fund

The choice of a public health insurance plan and health insurance exchange will private insurance plans to innovate in ways regulatory enforcement will not.

Grassley hails stance on health premiums - Des Moines Register

"Anything you do that makes more uniform the payments, the premiums, and more uniform who can join and not join, then it is going to make it easier not to have a public option plan," Grassley said.

House Wants Shortcut On Health Care Reform - National Journal

The House Budget Committee this morning proposed moving President Obama's health care reform through Congress this year using fast-track procedures.

Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul - Associated Press

Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Wednesday he's willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a GOP filibuster. The prospect of the controversial tactic has already ignited Republicans' ire, and key Senate Democratic chairmen have said they don't want to do it.

Reid: Health reform increasingly important - Las Vegas Review Journal

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that reforming health care has become increasingly important as the economy has become more dire and that Congress must take up the issue.

Health Care for America Now visits - The York Daily Record

The healthcare advocate is visiting cities across Pennsylvania to rally support.

Howard Dean To Announce Major New Campaign On Health Care Reform - Greg Sargent

Looks like Howard Dean is well on his way to finding a post-DNC niche, and he won’t be needing the Obama administration to find it for him.

OPINION

Reform is nothing to fear - Philadelphia Inquirer

Don't let scare tactics derail another attempt to fix American health care.

AHIP To America: Protect Our Market Monopoly And We Will Maybe Charge Everyone The Same Premiums - Think Progress

Yesterday, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association formally announced that the insurance industry would be willing to charge every American the same price for health insurance coverage in the individual insurance market if the government protected its market monopoly, required all Americans to purchase their insurance product and held off on the new public health option.

Conrad’s Budget Markup Rolls The Die On Health Care Reform - Think Progress

Today, Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) released his mark-up of President Obama’s budget. Conrad left space for Obama’s health care reform fund, but did not commit to a specific dollar amount. In doing so, he freed health care from the 5-year budget window and gave Congress free reign to invest an unspecified amount in reforming the health care system — so long as that investment is revenue neutral over 10 years.

Is Massachusetts a Model, a Mirage…or Moot? - The New Republic

The vibrant discussion on the Massachusetts reform by Jon Cohn, Diane Archer, and Jonathan Gruber is obscured because the debate is mixing up two different questions: Is the Massachusetts reform succeeding? And is Massachusetts a model for national reform?