Health Insurance

Wow. John McCain wants to tax your health insurance benefits.

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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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Sasha Foo interviews the Center on Policy Initiatives’ research director, Murtaza Baxamusa. They discuss CPI’s report on San Diego’s record-breaking high unemployment.

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The First with Dallas Green of City and Colour and banter about Sara’s spill at Bonnaroo.

Thank you guys so much for all of the love for my new camera! Truth is, I’m still working on paying it off since I had to go a few weeks without a paycheck in September. Things are a little tough right now, and for the of it I thought I’d ask – if you love my videos and feel so inclined – to donate $1 through Paypal so my camera isn’t repossessed or something? (It’s the most expensive thing I own!) I’d of course be more than willing to accept more if you’d like to send it, but if each of you (my subscribers!) sent just $1, I could totally pay it off. So anyway, just throwing it out there. If you’ve got $1 to spare, just send it on over to jaime.wojo@gmail.com on Paypal (I can’t take debit or credit card payments through my account, though, just e-checks or bank-to-bank transfers) and I’d love you forever. You guys are awesome. Jaime

10/18 Tegan & Sara – @ Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA 10/03/08

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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) says at a town hall that it is “a huge mistake” to assume strong opinions from anyone opposed to President Obama’s health care reform plan are “manufactured”. She said that they might be “organized” but they are “not manufactured.”

She also denied that abortions will not be covered in the health care proposal. “That’s just simply not true.”

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What could be more important than the upcoming election? What the next president actually does once elected. While a feverish media dissects Palins wardrobe and plumbs “Joes” biography, real challenges for America are piling up. Domestic struggles over marriage and abortion rights will define who we are, and our response to global conflicts and crises will determine our place in a new century. The end of the campaigning is just the beginning.

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Thousands of family child care providers are working together in our union, SEIU Kids First, to make sure kids in Maryland can get the quality early education they need to grow and learn.

Caring for children is the greatest job there is–but low state reimbursement rates don’t cover the cost of delivering high-quality care. And with no access to affordable health insurance through our jobs as family child care providers, many of us are struggling to keep serving our communities.

Help us win a stronger voice to work together with the state, and stand up for the working families that depend on us every day!

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-Thomas Jefferson

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