Health Care Reform Goes Home for the Holiday

by Seth Michaels, Nov 24, 2009

In Arkansas and other key states, union members are rallying to demand that their senators support real health care reform.

Senators are heading home for Thanksgiving this week, but when they return, they’ll begin debate on one of the most important priorities of our lifetime: health care reform.

Although we’ve made good progress in this fight in recent weeks, the bill under consideration by the Senate still has some flaws that need to be addressed. Contact your senators now and ask them to pass real reform—without a new tax on health benefits. 

Here’s the latest news on the battle for health care reform:

• Check out this great state-by-state interactive map of the effects of health care reform at healthreform.gov (scroll down).
• Surprise! Big-money corporate front groups like the Chamber of Commerce are bankrolling ads against health care reform.

• Greg Sargent asks: Do “centrist” senators understand the need for reform?
• Steve Benen notes that, in arguing against health care reform this weekend, Senate Republicans managed to avoid truth almost entirely.
• E.J. Dionne says the glass is more than half full: The progress we’ve made on the ongoing health care crisis is good.
• It is estimated that the Senate bill could reduce health insurance premiums in the individual market by 25 percent.

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