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• Kill the Bill – REASONS

  —Blue Lyon

  Firedoglake: Top 10 Reasons to Kill Senate Health Care Bill Forces you to pay up to 8% of your income to private insurance corporations — whether you want to or not. If you refuse to buy the insurance, you’ll have to pay penalties of up to 2% of your annual income to the [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 9:50am EST
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• Harry replies

  —Blue Lyon

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  To my email.  Thank you for your letter on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I understand your concerns and I appreciate hearing from you regarding this landmark legislation.  Today there are reports of up to 47 million uninsured Americans, rising prescription drug prices, and declining health insurance benefits. I want [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 10:42am EST
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• A “victory” on the backs of women. Again.

  —Blue Lyon

  If I’m reading this correctly, the Senate HCR bill is even more onerous than the House bill when it comes to women’s reproductive freedom. Rather than just a bill that says that federal funds cannot be used to fund abortion, the Senate bill says that states can require insurance companies [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:01am EST
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• Coffee And The Papers: News Roundup

  —Desert Beacon

  ** Want to see what happens when insurance bureaucrats determine which doctor you can visit? Las Vegas, NV offers one horrific example. [LVSun]
  
  ** The glass is half empty or half full: Reno home sales up compared to last year but down compared to October. [RGJ]
  
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:05am EST
  

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• Kill the bill

  —Blue Lyon

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  My email to Harry Reid: No single payer, no public option, no Medicare buy-in, no cost controls, mandates to buy private insurance. Just kill the bill. And then I read Susie. Our country, without any doubt, is owned by corporate interests and served by Congressional sociopaths and sycophants. There are very few heroes [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:20am EST
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• Because the private insurers have done such a bang-up job

  —Blue Lyon

  Under the deal, the government plan preferred by liberals would be replaced with a program that would create several national insurance policies administered by private companies but negotiated by the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees health policies for federal workers. If private firms were unable to deliver acceptable national [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:34pm EST
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• This can’t be good

  —Various Things & Stuff

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  Wait, what? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated there’s a “broad compromise” tonight on the health-care reform bill? But the details are being kept semi-secret? But it looks like the public option is gone? In favor of a private insurance option overseen by the federal benefits people, but not [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  by Steve Sebelius

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• Gibbons: Timeline shows lawmakers (especially Marcus Conklin) at fault in unemployment insurance fiasco

  —Ralston's Flash'

  Gov. Jim Gibbons, in an op-ed sent to newspapers around the state, details how the Legislature created a problem by not acting when given the chance on regulations for unemployment insurance. The timeline is fairly devastating for regulatory panel Chairman Conklin, although it would have been gag-free (and looked less [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  

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• We must address health care now in 2014!

  —Las Vegas Gleaner

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  By the time all the concessions are made to the Lincoln-Lieberman-Landrieu Axis of Anal, a public option will have been rendered toothless by a "trigger" that the insurance industry can easily circumvent. Or the public option will be replaced by co-ops that would be [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:37pm EST
  by Hugh Jackson

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• Health Care Reform In The Sausage Factory

  —Desert Beacon

  The debate over whether or not to debate health care reform legislation in the United States Senate highlights one simple question: Are the Senators supporting the health insurance industry or small businesses and individual citizens? Senator John Ensign (R-NV) cast his vote in favor of the insurance industry. We could [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:38am EST
  

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• After years of practice, Senate Democrats master art of being tedious

  —Las Vegas Gleaner

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  Conservative Senate Democrats insist that any health legislation reaching Barack Obama's desk must be small, deferred and insurance industry-friendly enough to guarantee that Democrats lose hundreds of elections in 2010 if not beyond.

  So rather than doing something popular like, oh, letting people [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:40am EST
  by Hugh Jackson

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• And to think politicians pander to these people

  —Las Vegas Gleaner

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  Sixty-seven percent of your fellow 'Mericans surveyed for an AP poll said they favor changes to the health care system "requiring that everyone has at least some health insurance."

  Sixty-four percent of those surveyed in the same poll said they oppose "a law that would'" [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:02am EST
  by Hugh Jackson

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