Health Insurance

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Top_Senate_Aides_Debate_Health_Care_Reform

Senate staffers Kate Leone and Russ Sullivan state that the goal of health care reform is to make sure it is affordable and accessible to all. Debate about how to achieve that goal has included the possibility of making basic health coverage mandatory.

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New School President and former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey hosts a debate from the recording studio in the U.S. Senate to discuss the health care reform debate raging on Capitol Hill.

He is joined by three top advisors to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus, the Democratic leaders shaping reform legislation.

Panelists provide an inside look at the latest proposed legislative approaches to health care reform, including a public health care plan, reducing reform’s price tag, taxing employer-provided health care benefits, points of agreement — and tension — between the White House and Congress, and lessons learned from the Massachusetts model of universal coverage. – The New School

Kate Leone is senior health counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). She works on Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, health coverage, and prescription drug and medical device issues. Ms. Leone joined Senator Reid’s staff in January 2005 after serving as counsel to the previous Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle, and working as a senior policy advisor with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

Russ Sullivan plays a leading role in helping the Senate Finance Committee, led by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), to shape the nation’s tax system. Mr. Sullivan served as the committee’s chief tax counsel under former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) and as tax counsel and legislative director for then-Senator Bob Graham (D-FL).

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Hey President Obama how’s that bipartisanship working for you with . . . the Birthers, the Fanatics, the people running around in Right Wing militias, and Arian support groups?

Stop turning the other cheek and shove it down their christian republican throats.

The September surprise of 2001 was planned by those PoS christian republicans and they blamed President Clinton.

That PoS g. w. bush gave Wall St. $1.5 Trillion Dollars from Aug. 9, 2007 to Oct. 6, 2008. http://cbs5.com/business/credit.crisis.timeline.2.818699.html

Aug. 9, 2007 – $24 Billion
Aug. 10, 2007 – $38 Billion
Jan. 15, 2008 – $30 Billion
Feb. 12, 2008 – $30 Billion
June 17, 2008 – $75 Billion
July 23, 2008 – $300 Billion
Aug. 12, 2008 – $25 Billion
Sept. 14, 2008 – $60 Billion
Sept. 15, 2008 – $50 Billion
Sept. 16, 2008 – $85 Billion
Sept. 29, 2008 – $700 Billion
Oct. 6, 2008 – $37.8 Billion

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On May 5, 2009, eight activists were arrested at a health care hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, in the Dirksen Office Building, Room 106. As soon as the Committee Chair, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), opened the proceedings, the activists began in turns to stand and to make comments, like: “Why isnt a single payer at the table?” They were immediately “escorted” out of the room by the Capitol Hill police and placed under arrest.
The demonstrators’ press release underscored “how 22,000 people die in the U.S. every year due to a lack of health insurance.” This is seven times the number of victims that perished in the 9/11 tragedy.
Dr. Margaret Flowers, one of the eight arrested, added in the press release: “Health insurance administrators are practicing medicine without a license. The result is the suffering and death of thousands of patients for the sake of private profit. The private insurance industry has a solid grip on patients, providers and legislators. It is time to stand up and declare that health care is a human right.” The activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703. For background and any updates, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org and
http://singlepayeraction.org and http://md.pnhp.org and
http://www.prosperityagenda.us/ and http://freshaircleanpolitics.net.

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President Obama Strongville OH Full Speech Health Insurance Reform Right Now
President Obama shares the story of Natoma Canfield, a cancer survivor who had to drop her health insurance due to excessive rate hikes only to be diagnosed with leukemia, and tells the crowd in Strongsville, OH that cases like Natomas make it clear that the time is now for health insurance reform.

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