individual mandate

The Big Fights Left, and the Big Benefits in the Bill

by: Mike Lux

Thu Nov 12, 2009 at 11:45
I thought it might be useful to summarize the big battles ahead, as well as the list of things that are good policy changes that seem likely to be in the final legislation. I have two lists of both in the extended entry.

The battles still ahead include:

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The elephant in the room, real cost controls missing in healthcare bills

by: National Nurses Movement

Thu Sep 24, 2009 at 19:00
For anyone not interested in slogging through the debate on the 500-odd amendments to the Baucus bill, it has become increasingly and painfully apparent that the healthcare legislation soon to emerge from at least the Senate will fall far short in reigning in out of control health care costs.

That lapse is especially ironic in that "affordability" is perhaps the only goal that seems to top everyone's to do list, from President Obama to the "keep the government hands off my (government-financed) Medicare" crowd.

But as long as our policy makers refuse to throw the elephant out of the room, the insurance company pirates and their predatory pricing practices,  all their subsidies and tweaking will amount to little more than an umbrella in a hurricane.  

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