change.gov - 11/7/2008
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Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums. Create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/12/2008
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
This is very big news. One of the
key questions about the new Democratic majority was whether
Congress would try to play it safe, backing down on big ideas about reform, especially on health care. You can view the whole chorus about how we're still a ...
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Hopeful signs on health care
online.wsj.com - 11/12/2008
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Elected liberals, govern liberally
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... 2) What gets demonized as “liberal” or even “socialist” is just reasonable, or even overly cautious at this point. Take a gander at Obama’s health care plan. You know the one that we keep hear is “socialism”? A non-hysterical reading shows that it’s just common sense, based on the assumption that health care should go to people who need it. It’s actually not spectacularly different from our understanding of health care now, which is that you pay in ...
Obama transition on health care costs
Overlawyered —
Coyote also points to this page, which magically promises simultaneously to reduce health premiums while requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and doing lots of other generous stuff. Total discussion of medical liability issues consists of the following bullet point:
Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
Yes, because suppressing current malpractice insurance rates by adopting artificially rosy premises as to future payouts worked out so well when tried in ...
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