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Thanking Sen. Reid, and Other Health Care News |
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A lot of people deserve credit and thanks for yesterday’s announcement that the Senate health care bill will include a public health insurance option—grassroots union members who made phone calls and wrote letters, senators who insisted on a public option, bloggers and community organizations. But it’s worth taking a moment to thank Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who as Senate majority leader, faced down Big Insurance and said a public option must be part of the bill.
Reid could have taken the easy way out and let a small minority of senators kill the public option favored by a majority of the Congress and a majority of the country. He didn’t. Health Care for America Now has a page where you can thank Reid for doing the right thing.
Here’s more news from the battle for health care reform:
- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka reminds us we need reform that works, not just reform in name only. Stay tuned for more on the upcoming Nov. 5 Day of Action on Health Care.
- Are insurers charging more for companies that hire more women?
- No surprises here, but in yet another poll, more people favor health care reform that includes a public option than oppose it. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed opposition fell 6 percentage points from September.
- The public option isn’t the only thing that must be in the final health care bill. We also need to make sure that plans are affordable and don’t put too high a burden on working families.
- Game on: After yesterday’s public option announcement, Mike Lux at Open Left looks at the next steps to make health care reform a reality.
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Thank you to all the Statists driving the country that much closer to bankruptcy.. and the destruction of our currency!
We’ll all be able to afford health care in the aftermath of that!
I’m sure it was worth it due to the obscene 2% Profit Margin of the Insurance Industry.
What are Unions for?
Thank Harry Reid. Not so fast! if the health care reform passes with a provision allowing the states to opt out, it just gives the insurance companies and Big Pharma another bite of the apple, buying off state legislatures so that some states will opt out, leaving the most vulnerable among us in places like Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana (all of which have right wing governors and legislatures) still without access to health care.
Opt out is a fig leaf to deny coverage to millions
I agree. Thanking Senator Reid is too premature. He has got no spine. He is being heavily influenced by the insurance lobbyists and Big Pharma. He needs to be replaced as Majority Leader in the Senate. My vote would be Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia as Senator Reid’s replacement.