America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
The individual states, not the federal government, should be (and already are) spearheading health care reform. The needs and the means of the people are vastly different from state to state and the federal government can’t possibly know what each of those unique needs is, nor how to address each one. Several states have...
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Continuing my crusade to help folks wade through the mud and the muck of health care reform, today I’m taking issue with this page from the White House titled “Reform will stop “rationing” – not increase it”. In the video, Kavita Patel, who works with Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, reads a couple of emails,...
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I’ve had some time to digest Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on 9/9/09 and so far I have the following observations: First of all, I’d like to address the loss of freedom by the questionably unconstitutional requirement that citizens buy some form of insurance: …under my plan, individuals will be required...
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I’m playing around with CoveritLive for a future project I’m considering. I’m going to test it on tonight’s speech on health care from the White House to a joint session of Congress.
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Since my Congresswoman was interested enough to seek my input, I sent the following email: Dear Representative; I want to thank you for your personal and informative response to my questions regarding H.R. 3200. In your response you asked me to share my views about how to best achieve reform. It is reassuring to...
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I sent a letter to my congresswoman asking for her interpretation of a few of the clauses in H.R. 3200. This is her response. I’ve added my comments inline below. Dear Mr. Shaw: Thank you for your very thoughtful questions about H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. I appreciate hearing from you...
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The White House is on a mission to debunk certain myths about H.R. 3200, aka public health reform. Today on twitter (@whitehouse) they posted a link to a video (embedded below) in which Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform states that “Congress has not taken a vote to exempt itself...
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