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Can We Reconcile Health Care for America Now?

    We in the progressive community, or at least those of us concerned with the issue of health care financing - which I hope is all of us - have an enormous disconnect at the moment.  As smart people...

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Why Competition Doesn't Work for Health Insurance

One of the most confusing aspects of health care reform is the idea that competition amongst private insurers should lead to lower prices, more insured people, and more coverage since these are all...

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Regulating Health Insurers: Some Low-Hanging Fruit [update]

I was sitting in the company "library" a few days ago when a copy of the WSJ caught my eye, some story about something techy or other.  As I was leafing through this particular section ("Lifestyles" I...

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Let's Conduct a Poll on Healthcare Finance Reform

As I have belly-ached about before, there is a serious and dangerous disconnect in the progressive community between the single-payer advocates and the "incrementalists".  What is the source of this...

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Single-Payer by the Numbers

There are many plans for health care finance reform floating around lately, most recently the much-ballyhooed Baucus plan, outlined here in his whitepaper, along with Obama's, McCain's, Wyden's,...

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What the Hell is Single-Payer, Anyway?

    I have seen the terms "universal healthcare" and "single-payer healthcare" bandied about with respect to the much anticipated healthcare reform everyone is hoping to be high on the incoming...

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Mixed Private/Public Healthcare Financing = Bad Idea

    Many - I would say a large majority - in the progressive community are supporters of single-payer healthcare financing, and for some of them (myself included) nothing but a nearly pure and...

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Healthcare Reform: Is "Uniquely American" Killing Us?

We Americans have a fiercely independent streak (try the google with "uniquely American solution", it's fun!).  Even our adversaries fellow Americans over at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)...

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Daschle on Single-Payer: Demonizers Win!

HHS secretary nominee (and, perhaps more critically, head of Obama's new White House Office of Health Reform) Tom Daschle is putatively an expert on healthcare issues.  Why?  He wrote a book!...

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Health ? @ Change.gov:  How is Single-Payer faring?

Over at Change.gov they are taking questions - a LOT of questions.  Being interested in the healthcare issue (fortunately you can filter the questions by issue) and a single-payer supporter I thought...

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President Obama: Yes, We Can Lead You to Single-Payer

    The title of this diary should actually read "Yes, we can lead you back to single-payer", as in the January 2009 issue of "The Progressive", John Nichols writes: The point won’t be to teach Obama...

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Framing the Healthcare Financing Issue

    I was going to use "debate" instead of "issue", but that word is not right. Fact is, there is essentially no debate that universal single-payer is the best way to finance healthcare according to...

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CA SB810: From Concept to Law

In my state of California, the California Universal Healthcare Act has once again been introduced in the state senate as SB810.  This represents the third time around for this bill, the last two times...

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Public Option: Where is Your Line in the Sand? (update)

The rumble regarding healthcare reform is upon us.  Those of us who support single-payer healthcare financing have essentially been locked out of the discussion, but that's not the point of this diary...

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Hoisting Luntz By His Own Petard

A week or so ago, as noted in this story and a few diaries, Frank Luntz, the other side's wannabe equivalent to George Lakoff (apologies in advance to George, who is sincere in his efforts to make us...

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HC: 17% of the Economy is a Ruse

I don't know about you, but I'm getting rather tired of hearing pundits and politicians talking about how healthcare reform affects 17% of the economy.  The implication is, of course, that we simply...

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Healthcare and Health Policy: A Useful Glossary

I have learned an abundance of useful, interesting, and otherwise helpful stuff right here on the DKos.  As a single-payer advocate who speaks a lot about the issue, I have come across my fair share of...

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How Single Payer Controls Costs

In honor of a great American: Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and most inhumane.         - Martin Luther King, Jr. I was alerted to this article (The...

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Single-Payer: How You Can Help

Are you ready for healthcare that is affordable, high quality, covers everything and covers everyone?  If you live in California (or any of the many states that have single-payer legislation in the...

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What's the message? My thoughts on OWS

In 2003, as the invasion of Iraq became increasingly certain, hundreds of thousands of people around the world, if not millions, marched in protest.  It seemed pretty clear what the message was,...

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