Small business owner at Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D, CA-6) Town Hall meeting voices frustration over lack of free-market competition in the insurance market.
Sounds like small business owners in California are fed up to the point of revolt a la Atlas Shrugged.
Is California “going Galt”?
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Ron Paul uses the same old FOX NEWS scare tactics to deny
health coverage to 47 million Americans who have no health care coverage
and millions more who are under-insured.
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Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) delivers the weekly Republican address on health care reform.
Sen. Johanns explains that Republicans have a simple test for reforming health care: “Will this legislation improve your life?”
Unfortunately, Sen. Johanns says, the Democrats’ health care reform proposals fall short because they will “negatively impact pocketbooks and paychecks across America.”
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The average American family today pays twice as much for its health care as it did a decade ago. Democrats are committed to lowering skyrocketing costs and bringing stability and security back to health care.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Durbin, Schumer and Murray held a press conference Thursday with Kathy De Vincentis and Regina Holliday, two individuals who have struggled due to the high cost of health care.
Kathy is a retired hospice nurse and breast cancer survivor who resides in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Armando, who suffers from the debilitating effects of a stroke, have had to spend much of their retirement savings on life-saving medications because of inadequate health insurance coverage. Congress needs to pass health reform so no woman has to die from breast cancer because she cant afford care, said De Vincentis. I call on you today to do the right thing for hardworking Americans like Armando and me.
Read more:
http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=316160
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47 million Americans currently have no health insurance.
Center for American Progress Health Policy Director Karen Davenport appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the President’s new health plan. 1/23/07
For moreof the Center’s recent work on Health Care please see:
http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/healthprogress/
www.AMERICANPROGRESS.org
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Quality affordable health care: it’s not just something we should do for America’s families, it’s something we must do for America’s economy.
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During a triumphant ceremony for congressional Democrats, President Barack Obama signed the historic health care reform legislation bill into law. Chip Reid reports.
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The President reveals his bold plans for better health care ! — $ $ $ — |
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama told the American people that the “day of reckoning” has arrived for the nation’s economy, which he pledged to not just fix but make stronger than it was before the current crisis.
“Now is the time to act boldly and wisely — to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity,” the president said in his televised prime-time address.
Obama was greeted with thunderous applause in the House chamber, as lawmakers reached out to try and get a handshake or, in some cases, a kiss as the president made his way down the narrow aisle to the podium.
Obama is enjoying a 68 percent approval rating after his first month in office, according to the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll, and his pledge to reverse the nation’s economic woes earned him an early standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans.
“While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” Obama said.
Obama laid out proposals in energy, health care and education policy that he said would help everyday Americans struggling with rising costs and would be long-term investments toward economic recovery.
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During a triumphant ceremony for congressional Democrats, President Barack Obama signed the historic health care reform legislation bill into law. Chip Reid reports.
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Does our political, social, corporate, economic system engage in the process of anticipation? Anticipate represents a key foundation item in finding future solutions and avoiding crisis based reaction and failure. We are watching debates framed around rationing, reaction, and a Malthusian shortage. We need to redefine how we discuss issues and concerns towards the concept of “anticipation.” We need to break event driven decision making in government towards a planning based economy rich in research and development. Just who is the real communist, Warren Buffett.
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