Health Care For America Now

NEWS

Goldman To Private Insurers: No Health Care Reform At All Is Best - Huffington Post

A Goldman Sachs analysis of health care legislation has concluded that, as far as the bottom line for insurance companies is concerned, the best thing to do is nothing. A close second would be passing a watered-down version of the Senate Finance Committee's bill.

Pro-Obama Activists to Hit GOP Members’ Offices Starting Friday - Roll Call

Organizing for America is dispatching volunteers to the local offices of 32 House Republicans whose districts supported President Barack Obama in the 2008 election to demand that they support Obama’s health care reform initiative.

Health insurance companies urge staff to fight reforms - Washington Post

The nation's largest health insurance carrier is urging its employees to lobby the Senate against reform proposals that would hurt the firm's bottom line, according to copies of e-mails released Thursday by a liberal advocacy group.

Business Roundtable: Health Care Costs Would Balloon Under Status Quo - FDL News

The Business Roundtable, an organization representing the CEOs of the largest companies in America, has said in a new report that the status quo in health care is completely unsustainable. It’s something that’s been forgotten as the debate rages in Congress, but the fight over health care is essentially a fight over what will be left standing when the current health care “system” collapses. There is no way individuals, businesses and the government could continue to operate if the assumptions in this report are true.

RNC to opt out of abortion coverage - Politico

The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after POLITICO reported Thursday that the anti-abortion RNC's policy has covered the procedure since 1991.

60 Plus Airing New Round Of Misleading Anti-Reform Ads - Media Matters

In a series of three very similar ads, the right-wing group 60 Plus has attacked the pro-reform votes of Congressmen Snyder (D-AR), Hill (D-IN), and Pomeroy (D-ND).  Just like their other ads, however, this series is full of misleading information and scare tactics.

U.S. Chamber's "Skyrocket" Ad Flies Without Facts - Media Matters

On November 11, 2009, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Employers for a Health Economy coalition released a new anti-health care reform ad titled "Skyrocket."  Just like the Chamber's other recent anti-reform ads, this new ad is in dire need of some factual information.

OPINION

10 Reasons Why Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill Made a Political Mistake - Robert Creamer

Even if you completely ignore how critical it is to reform the broken American health care system, most of the 39 Democrats who voted against health care reform in the House last week made a political mistake. Here's why.

The public option is not an entitlement - Ezra Klein

Karl Smith has a theory explaining how the public option could drive the government deeper into debt. The argument, essentially, rests on an analogy to Medicare and Medicaid. The problem here is that Medicare and Medicaid are entitlements. The public option is not.

Cost-effectiveness is not a harbinger of rationing health care - Health Populi

Health care cost increases in the U.S. are unsustainable; there is universal agreement among U.S. health care stakeholders on this point. The uber-objective of "bending the cost curve" is a major sticking-point with the House-passed health reform bill.

Stupak as drama queen - Congress Matters

The Washington Independent picks up on a report from "LifeNews.com" in which Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI-01) issues this threat, even as he insists it's not a threat.