In an interview with The Mount Airy News, a newspaper based out of Mount Airy, N.C., (a small town best known as the inspiration for Andy Griffith’s Mayberry), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) asserts there is plenty of access to health insurance in the U.S. when the true picture is More…
With the last-minute support of anti-abortion colleagues, House Democrats on Sunday passed historic legislation to extend health coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, protect patients from the most flagrant abuses of insurance companies, and curb runaway health care costs. All told, the $940 billion reforms represent the most More…
Last Thursday, nine protesters were arrested for refusing to leave the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Today, six more were hauled away, Roll Call reports.
CodePink** helped organize both sit-ins, protesting Lieberman’s threat to filibuster the health care reform bill. Joan Stallard, a CodePink member
Health insurance companies, for decades exempt from federal anti-trust laws, are exploiting that privilege to churn profits at the expense of patients, a number of Senate Democrats charged Wednesday. The lawmakers — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — want to repeal the exemption as part of broader efforts More…
The American Association for Justice — the trial lawyers’ lobby group — has just released an astounding statistic: medical malpractice insurance companies’ average profits are higher than those of 99 percent of Fortune 500 companies.
As the nation remains mired in a debate over health care reform and More…
Earlier today, we previewed an effort by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to require insurance companies to dedicate a minimum share of premium revenues to health care delivery, as opposed to administrative costs, profits and executive pay. Moments ago, the West Virginia Democrat made his case for the amendment, More…
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, is no fan of the insurance industry, as was made perfectly clear during Tuesday’s debate on his failed amendment to create a public plan.
Along those lines, the West Virginia Democrat plans today to More…
Congressional Republicans have, for months, insisted that they’re interested in a bipartisan compromise on health reform this year. It’s the Democrats, they claim, who are ignoring the GOP’s wonderful ideas in efforts to ram through something like socialized medicine — a bill that conservatives say the More…
With the health reform debate in recent weeks focused largely on GOP opposition to a government-sponsored insurance plan, the implication has been that eliminating the public option would attract Republicans to the proposal.
Hardly.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told reporters today that Republicans also won’t support the Democrats’ proposal because More…
The New York Times today does a nice job pointing out some of the limitations of the co-op coverage model being pushed by “Gang of Six” member Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) as an alternative to the government-backed option preferred by the White House and Democratic leaders. More…
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