"Words that make actions speak louder."
When President Obama speaks before the Congress on Wednesday night, he will tell the nation in more specific detail what he wants to do to make the health care system work for everyone. He’d had better pledge to make sure good health insurance is affordable for all Americans – because he’s already made a deal […]
Let’s get a few things straight: Until last year, Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s health care bill (co-authored with with Rep. John Dingell) was a bill known as Medicare for All. Not expensive private insurance for some, but Medicare [a public insurance plan] for All. Senator Kennedy encouraged candidate and then President Obama to make health […]
Americans are demanding health care reform that guarantees them quality, affordable insurance, reduces the burden of health costs on employers and individuals and provides backup coverage through a public health insurance option. But the suggestion that we pay for these needed reforms by taxing the health benefits that millions of us get through our employers […]
I pledge that soon I will buy a new, fuel-efficient car—built in America by United Auto Workers members. I’m asking YOU to take this pledge with me and get others to do so, too. If enough Americans take this pledge—and pass it on—we can revive our country’s auto and manufacturing industries. And we can give […]
Jacob Hacker’s 2006 book, The Great Risk Shift, helped politicians understand the economic pressures on the average family — including the rising costs and increasing loss of health insurance — or the threat. And in his Health Care for America plan for health reform, published in early 2007 by the Economic Policy Institute, he outlines […]
Like most participants in President Obama’s Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our Health Care for America Now coalition have been urging: […]
At a press conference today by Wall Street mogul Peter Peterson, he and his invited speakers informed Americans who are losing their jobs and homes in record numbers that our nation’s biggest problem is the national deficit—and that the solution is to cut Social Security and Medicare. We don’t need this campaign. What the nation […]
The global financial crash of the past few weeks has hammered home what should be common sense: A free market needs reasonable rules that safeguard the public interest. When you unshackle corporations and put the cops who would police them in handcuffs, ultimately everyone loses in the ensuing chaos. As our Tuesday, October 14 op-ed […]
Long before anyone had been nominated or elected, the voters of 2008 had gotten one message across loud and clear: Fix our dysfunctional health care system! For obvious reasons (and big reasons that aren’t so obvious), the leaders of 2009 must heed that call. America’s health care system is in meltdown. More than 45.7 million […]
This year Americans want to talk about health care – and most of us want to talk about covering the uninsured and reducing the costs of health care – but often what we get from the media is just cynical double talk. Case in point: a column by Robert Samuelson in the September 10 Washington […]