Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:04 PM EDT (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress.

health, health-care, healthcare, comparison, tools, single-payer

"Baucus 13" Settle Charges

Seeded on Mon Jul 6, 2009 1:45 AM EDT (prosperityagenda)

Legal charges against the "Baucus 13" were settled in a series of court hearings held earlier this week.

congress, health, healthcare, baucus, single-payer

Will Eucalyptus Be The New Kudzu?

Thu Jul 2, 2009 1:16 PM EDT

Kudzu was imported to the Southeastern US to reduce soil erosion. It is now an invasive pest. The vine will quickly engulf trees, bushes, telephone poles, and people. (Just kidding about the people, but it does grow quickly.)

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Genetic Eucalyptus Trees Threaten Southern U.S.

Seeded on Thu Jul 2, 2009 1:07 PM EDT ()

The U.S. government is set to approve [1] a request from ArborGen, the genetically engineered (GE) tree research and development giant, for permission to plant 260,000 GE cold tolerant eucalyptus trees in 29 "field trials" across seven southern U.S. states.

environment, us-news, usda, southeast, eucalyptus, bio-engineered

Problems with Value

Seeded on Wed Jul 1, 2009 11:16 AM EDT (http://qarrtsiluni.com/)

I am not worthy I breathe in Approximately one eighth Of the required amount Of air to fill my lungs I tell myself Make do with that You greedy Useless Stupid Wasteful Creature Spread it thinly It'll last I breathe out Tense Scared And hurt

economy, value, arts, poetry

Single-Payer FAQs

Seeded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:14 PM EDT (Medicare for All)

What the typical worker GIVES -About 3 percent (3.3%) more out of each paycheck, as per the proposed legislation H.R. 676 What the typical worker RECEIVES

health, healthcare, single-payer

http://www.uspirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/tax--budget-policy/tax--budget-policy--reports/tax-shell-game-the-taxpayer-cost-of-offshore-corporate-havens

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:07 AM EDT (US PIRG)

Many of the largest corporations in our country hide profits made in the United States in offshore shell companies and sham headquarters in order to avoid paying billions in federal taxes. The result is massive losses in revenue for the U.S.

business, taxes, tax-shelters, corporate-taxes, tax-havens, death-tax

Paying for What Works: A U.S. PIRG Policy Primer on Health Care

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:02 AM EDT (US PIRG)

The total premium cost for employer-sponsored family health insurance has doubled in less than ten years... Americans might accept these rising costs if their health care dollars were purchasing quality care on which they could depend.

health, healthcare

Health Reform Could Mean Jobs, Economic Growth

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:46 AM EDT (US PIRG)

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business, economy, jobs, healthcare, job-growth

Hightower Lowdown | Big Money Wins, People Lose

Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:05 AM EDT (Hightower Lowdown)

On April 30th, the Senate voted down a proposal by Sen. Dick Durbin a top Democrat to allow bankruptcy judges to lower the monthly mortgage payments of homeowners trapped by exploding interest rates.

business, economy, senate, bankruptcy, housing, obama, dick-durbin, housing-prices, death-tax, housing-crisis

Growth in Physicians and Administrators

Seeded on Tue Jun 2, 2009 10:31 AM EDT (prosperityagenda)

The chart shows the negative impact of the current multi-payer health care system.

health, health-care, healthcare, health-insurance, single-payer, health-policy

Will Obama stop listening to Wall Street & restore regulation?

Seeded on Tue Jun 2, 2009 10:04 AM EDT (CounterPunch.org)

For the past eight months, we have been a nation focused on bailouts and bankruptcies. For the past ten years, we have been a nation ignoring massive wealth transfer and wealth concentration through a rigged Wall Street.

business, economy, wall-street, federal-reserve, obama, regulation, bailout

Baucus to Meet with Single Payer Advocates

Seeded on Mon Jun 1, 2009 11:03 AM EDT (singlepayeraction)

After months of proclaiming that single payer is off the table, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has invited five key single payer advocates to meet with him in Washington, D.C. this week.

health, health-care, healthcare, max-baucus, single-payer

Unemployment in U.S. Probably Surpassed 9% in May

Seeded on Mon Jun 1, 2009 10:59 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

Unemployment in the U.S. probably surpassed 9 percent in May for the first time in more than 25 years, underscoring forecasts that the economy will be slow to pull out of the worst recession in half a century, economists said before a report this week

business, economy, jobs, unemployment, depression, recession

Twenty Lame Attempts To Find Myths about Single-Payer Health Insurance

Seeded on Mon Jun 1, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (NCPA)

This "study" is mostly a rehashing of Cato Institute opinion pieces, with some useless data thrown in to make it look scholarly.

health, health-care, healthcare, propoganda, talking-points, single-payer, right-wing-lies, health-policy

Single-Payer Talking Points & Why Mandate Plans Won't Work

Seeded on Mon Jun 1, 2009 10:41 AM EDT (health-care now)

1. Americans are afraid that they can't afford to get sick.

health, health-care, healthcare, talking-points, single-payer, health-policy, public-option

H1-B workers outnumber unemployed techies

Seeded on Fri May 29, 2009 11:54 AM EDT (Computerworld)

For those who still cling to the myth of the technology worker shortage.

technology, economy, immigration, unemployment, stem, h1-b, h1b

Rarely Used Closed Doors Slammed Again In U.S. Senate Health Care Reform

Seeded on Tue May 26, 2009 10:58 AM EDT (consumerwatchdog)

For the second time in two weeks, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee today invoked rules—allowing a closed door committee session barring the public, media and with no Congressional Record—reserved for unusual circumstances, like national security issues and trade secrets.

congress, senate, health-care, healthcare, secrecy, health-policy, max-bauchus, closed-door

Barbara Ehrenreich Endorses Alan Grayson Campign to Reform the Fed

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (Firedoglake)

Barbara Ehrenreich, blogger and author of This Land is Their Land, has added her name to the list of 3,270 people endorsing Alan Grayson's campaign to audit the Federal Reserve.

business, economy, federal-reserve, bailout, barbara-ehrenreich, alan-grayson

Obama: Missing in Action on Healthcare

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT (The Nation)

It should come as no surprise that Barack Obama does not support a national health insurance system like most other countries have. He made that clear during the campaign. What is surprising is that he has been so vague about exactly what kind of healthcare reform he has in mind.

taxes, health, medicare, health-care, healthcare, health-insurance, medicaid, obama

For the first time since EU founding US unemployment rate overtakes EU's

Seeded on Sun May 24, 2009 10:34 AM EDT (Prosperity Agenda)

The median 8.9 percent jobless figure in the US has, for the first time since the conglomeration of European nations into a single bloc in the early 1990s, overtaken the transatlantic bloc's unemployment rate, which now stands at 8.5%.

business, economy, unemployment

Michael Moore's latest doc on economy out Oct. 2

Seeded on Sat May 23, 2009 4:50 AM EDT (hollywoodreporter.com)

Seeded by djd (Clipped by Hen's Teeth)

Overture and Paramount Vantage said Thursday the still-untitled documentary about the collapse of the world economy will bow domestically on Oct. 2. That's almost a year to the day that Congress passed the first U.S. economic stimulus package, officials noted.

entertainment, economy, documentary, michael-moore

Universal health care: Private enterprise can't fix our ailing system

Seeded on Thu May 21, 2009 5:13 PM EDT (Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal )

So I look at single-payer health care in that conservative light. I recognize that a significant portion of America's chronic disease burden is self-induced (e.g., some people eat, drink or smoke too much and make themselves sick).

health, health-care, healthcare, conservative, single-payer