Health-Care Reform Around the Web
By John Amick
- President Obama hearkens back to campaign mode today, this time selling a health care overhaul in Green Bay, Wis., at 1:10 p.m. ET. Green Bay was chosen for the town hall due to an exemplary high-quality, low-cost heath care system, according to the administration. Obama will be in Chicago Monday to address the American Medical Association's annual meeting.
- Trudy Lieberman, of the Association of Health Care Journalists, writes in the Columbia Journalism Review that the American Medical Association looks to be teaming with the insurance and pharmaceutical industries in the resistance to a public plan. The New York Times has more on AMA.
- Politico details the furious infighting between Democrats in crafting health legislation. Unified fronts from the likes of public plan advocates and Netroots bloggers have targeted Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Mary Landrieu (La.) for their vocal resistance to any additional government-sponsored care.
- Sen. Kent Conrad (D-S.D.) is proposing a compromise as the Senate crafts a reform plan. Conrad is touting health care cooperatives owned by groups of residents and small businesses, reports the Associated Press.
- USA Today looks into employer-provided health benefits, which represent the nation's most expensive tax break. President Obama has not endorsed limiting the tax break, Sen. Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, which is crafting a reform bill, has said he favors the limitation.
- Roll Call reports that aides of Baucus are warning Democratic lobbyists to keep their clients away from an upcoming Republican meeting on health-care reform.
- The New York Times reports on the role small business in playing in the reform push.
- Karl Rove gives the GOP a five-point playbook in stopping "socialized health care" in the Wall Street Journal.
- The Los Angeles Times reports on special interests, such as the liquor and soft drink industries, fearing a tax hike on their products used to pay for wider coverage.
- Timothy Noah of Slate runs down the best sites to follow the health care debate.
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Why up-root the World's best Health-System?
Out of a population of (350) Three-Hundred and Fifty million citizens only (47)Forty-Seven million people are without insurance.
There is absolutely no need to change our Health-System.
We just need to expand the Medi-caid to a higher income level.
It is the poor and lower-level middle-in come class that does not have insurance.
We would only have to increase the criteria of income per family. Example
If a family of (4)Four makes $40,000. annually, increase it to $80.000 annually.
Allowing a higher income-level to receive Medi-caid is the solution.
The avenue for distribution to the un-insured, to receive full health-care free, or with a very small premium; gaged upon a sliding scale of their income is already in place.
No need to "Upheavel" the entire health-care system.