Free Times Issue #22.46 :: 11/18/2009 – 11/24/2009 S.C. Business Groups Split Over Health Care Reform Bill BY KIMATHI LEWIS For years, small businesses have seen the cost of providing health care to their workers increase at an alarming rate. But now that a health care reform bill has [...]
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What’s Next? Throughout the reform debate, a constellation of key issues—financing, affordability and the inclusion and design of a public insurance option—have been key focal points of discussion. Now, as reform inches closer to the finish line, another set of issues that have always been present but have received less attention are taking new prominence. [...]
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Saturday was a historic day. The United States House of Representatives voted 220 – 215 to pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act. This legislation is a big step forward toward quality, stable, affordable health care. It will promote competition, slow the growth in health care costs, and improve the quality of care for millions of Americans. [...]
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S.C. to Public Option: No Thanks Politicians Likely to Block State’s Citizens From Any Public Health Care Option BY COREY HUTCHINS If the U.S. Congress ends up passing some kind of national health care reform package and it includes anything resembling a “public option,” you can bet few other states will be as [...]
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The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce has prepared district level analyses of the impact of the H.R. 3962, The Affordable Health Care for America Act, District by District in South Carolina. Henry E. Brown Jr. (SC-1) Joe Wilson (SC-2) J. Gresham Barrett (SC-3) Bob Inglis (SC-4) John M. Spratt (SC-5) James E. Clyburn [...]
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Sign on to Community Catalyst’s Letter of Support to Speaker Pelosi and House leadership and ask your coalition or networks to sign on as well. We have a 24-hour window to get this letter to Speaker Pelosi. Please emailjcollier@communitycatalyst.org by NOON (12 p.m. EST) on Thursday if you would like for her to sign you on. Make [...]
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Over the past decade, the cost of health insurance has skyrocketed, while working families’ wages have merely inched upward. As the recession lingers on, this situation continues to worsen. Reduced hours and job losses have left millions of families struggling to afford their share of premiums and millions more with no coverage at all. The combination of stagnant wages [...]
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House prepares to bring a strong reform package to the floor On Thursday, House leadership unveiled a strong health reform package and plans to begin debate on it late this week. The House bill gelled in the middle of last week when leaders judged that a final push to get 218 votes for a bill that [...]
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