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Actor James Pickens, Jr. of “Grey’s Anatomy” hosts two 30-second PSAs. They inform viewers about how to access lo-cost or free government-funded health insurance.
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The spiraling cost of medical coverage and treatment is tearing apart the old social contract for healthcare.
In the last century, employers provided health benefits to most workers, and the government provided only for older American and the very poor. Todays economy relies heavily on self-employed entrepreneurs and low-income workers without benefits. However, our outdated system provides significant barriers to coverage and access for these groups whose situation is made even more precarious by the ongoing economic downturn.
This lunchtime seminar featured two healthcare leaders who are on the cutting edge of creating access to coverage and care for those disadvantaged by our current healthcare system.
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Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/christopher-hitchens-on-first-100-days.html
The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bill Clinton had campaigned heavily on health care in the 1992 U.S. presidential election. The task force was created in January 1993, but its own processes were somewhat controversial and drew litigation. Its goal was to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration’s first-term agenda. A major health care speech was delivered by President Clinton to the U.S. Congress in September 1993. The core element of the proposed plan was an enforced mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organizations.
Opposition to the plan was heavy from conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry. The industry produced a much-talked-about television ad, “Harry and Louise”, in an effort to rally public support against the plan. Democrats, instead of uniting behind the President’s original proposal, offered a number of competing plans of their own. By September 1994, the final compromise Democratic bill was declared dead by Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. Opponents of the plan continued to deride it in future years as “HillaryCare.”
Before President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010, the United States was the only wealthy, industrialized nation that did not provide some form of universal health care, other than Medicare. Although the United States has never had a universal health care system, it does have certain publicly funded health care programs that help to provide for the elderly and disabled (via Medicare), military service families, veterans (via the Veterans Health Administration), and some of the poor (via Medicaid), and children via S-CHIP. Additionally, federal law guarantees public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay. Bill Clinton had campaigned heavily on health care in the 1992 election. The 1993 Clinton health care plan is sometimes called “HillaryCare” by opponents.
Hart declined to run for re-election to the Senate, leaving office when his second term expired with the intent of running for president again. In January 1987, he was the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 election.
Hart officially declared his candidacy on April 13, 1987. Rumors began circulating nearly immediately that Hart was having an extramarital affair. In an interview that appeared in the New York Times on May 3, 1987, Hart responded to the rumors by daring the press corps: “Follow me around. I don’t care. I’m serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’ll be very bored.” The Miami Herald had been investigating Hart’s alleged womanizing for weeks before the “dare” appeared in the New York Times. Two reporters from the Miami Herald had staked out his residence and observed a young woman leaving Hart’s Washington, D.C., townhouse on the evening of May 2. The Herald published the story on May 3, the same day Hart’s dare appeared in print, and the scandal spread rapidly through the national media. Hart and his allies attacked the Herald for rushing the story into print, claiming that it had unfairly judged the situation without finding out the facts. Hart said that the reporters had not watched both entrances to his home and could not have seen when the young woman entered and left the building. The Miami Herald reporter had flown to Washington, D.C. on the same flight as the woman, identified as Donna Rice. Hart was overwhelmed with questions regarding his views on marital infidelity. His wife, Lee, supported his position that the relationship with the young woman was innocent. A poll of voters in New Hampshire for the New Hampshire Primary showed that Hart’s support had dropped in half, from 32% to 17%, placing him suddenly ten points behind Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
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Panel 1
Ms. Jean Wojtowicz
Founder
Cambridge Capital Management Corporation
Indianapolis, IN
On behalf of National Association of Development Companies
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The American Cancer Society has partnered with international recording artist and poet, Michael “MIKE-E” Ellison to produce this public service announcement. With 24 percent of African Americans living below the poverty line, and 21 percent lacking health insurance, this high-energy, hard-hitting video draws attention to the need for quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Currently, 47 million people in America are without health insurance and millions more have inadequate health coverage, and may be just one illness, injury or missed paycheck away from financial ruin.
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For too long, big insurance has gotten between families and their doctors. Insurance companies have the power to decide who gets coverage, what medical treatment theyll pay for, and they set the prices for coverage. Meanwhile, working families face impossible barriers to obtaining health coverage imposed by insurance companies that make enormous profits and pay their CEOs and top managers fat compensation packages.
Real health reform will put families back in control of their childrens health care, guaranteeing every child access to all medically necessary services to maximize their childrens health and development.
We can fix our health care crisis with a uniquely American solution that stops insurance companies from discriminating against children and guarantees families the freedom to choose the quality, affordable health care that is best for their children.
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The spiraling cost of medical coverage and treatment is tearing apart the old social contract for healthcare.
In the last century, employers provided health benefits to most workers, and the government provided only for older American and the very poor. Todays economy relies heavily on self-employed entrepreneurs and low-income workers without benefits. However, our outdated system provides significant barriers to coverage and access for these groups whose situation is made even more precarious by the ongoing economic downturn.
This lunchtime seminar featured two healthcare leaders who are on the cutting edge of creating access to coverage and care for those disadvantaged by our current healthcare system.
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Teva’s Year of Affordable Healthcare campaign is a nationwide call for increased access to affordable healthcare for American citizens. The program coincides with the 25th anniversary of the landmark Hatch-Waxman Act which created the modern generic drugs industry and has saved billions of healthcare dollars.
For more information, visit http://www.yearofaffordablehealth.com
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Nationalized heath care will be so great, I can hardly wait. Obama will save us. He will help us because we are so pathetic that we cannot take care of ourselves. I will be first in line at one of these national clinics, because in that way I will be assured of getting my health problems (I have a hang nail) taken care of within the first year.
We will be the envy on the world. All will come here for their own free health care, especially our good friends from south of the border. Some know them as illegal aliens, but I like to refer to them as dislocated visitors. They will help us test our new health care system that the liberals will have given us. The dislocated visitors from down south will use our health care system to such an extent that we will soon know if it is able to handle all that was promised, which was free health care for all.
Now I would like the liberals to start working on the other things that are promised to us in the Constitution, and among these are: Free housing for all, free transportation for all, free food (good food!) for all, nice cloths for all, free internet access for all, and finally, a good paying job for all.
I hope the evil rich people and corporations are ready to get soaked by the tax man, because he’s a coming for your money. And you will have no choice but to pay up, or to leave the country, and I’m sure that none of you will leave the country, will you?
jbranstetter04
House Pledges July 31 Deadline to Pass Health Care Reform
House leaders pledged today to pass comprehensive health care legislation by July 31, a deadline President Obama said showed the “urgency” needed to fulfill his signature reform measure this year.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the deadline after meeting with Obama and other House Democratic leaders at the White House this morning. The president linked the pledge to other progress he said he has made this week on sweeping health care reform, a goal that has proven elusive for decades. If it stays on deadline, the House would send legislation to the Senate after the August recess, improving its chances of passing this year.
“We don’t have any excuses,” Obama said. “The stars are aligned.”
Obama began the week meeting with health care industry executives who pledged to voluntarily reduce the annual growth of health care costs by 1.5 percentage points, saving an estimated $2 trillion over the next decade. Obama repeated today that escalating health care costs are “the single biggest driver by far” of the ballooning budget deficit and national debt, and those projected savings would in theory help reduce Medicare and Medicaid costs in the coming years.
On Tuesday, Obama held a roundtable discussion at the White House with business leaders to talk about employer health care costs. In looking for ways to pay for expanded health care coverage, the administration is considering taxing the cost of some employer-subsidized health benefits, something that Obama opposed during last year’s campaign.
But Obama said today he is encouraged by the week’s discussions, saying that “we are starting to see a shift in those patterns” of partisanship, industry opposition, and special-interest lobbying pressure that have conspired to undermine past efforts to bring down health care costs and extend coverage. About 50 million Americans have no health insurance today.
Republican Rep. Roy Blunt (Mo.), chairman of the House Health Care Solutions Group, expressed displeasure after the meeting at not having been included.
“I’ve told the President and White House staff on numerous occasions that the House Health Care Solutions Group is ready to work with him toward the shared goal of making quality, affordable health care accessible to all Americans,” he said in a statement. “This common ground serves as a constructive starting point for true health care reform, but we find private, one-party meetings that set arbitrary deadlines a sign of a troubling lack of bipartisanship.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/05/13/house_pledges_july_31_deadline.html?wprss=44
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Stuart Butler, Ph.D., Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy at The Heritage Foundation, advises President-elect Obama to keep his campaign pledge of providing Americans with affordable health care options that allow them to choose their own doctors and health care options.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/sr27.cfm
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