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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: BREAKING: Blue Cross trying to kill key plank of Obama health care plan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Jason Rosenbaum: Harry and Louise Are Back: Insurers Planning on Double-Crossing Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: Ad Wars Heat Up In Health Care Debate As Wyden Plan Is Targeted
BREAKING: Blue Cross trying to kill key plank of Obama health care plan
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Well that didn't take long. Wasn't it just last week that the health insurance lobby pledged to work with President Obama to help rein in health care costs, as part of the overall health care reform effort? And now, just seven days later, Blue Cross insurance is going all out to kill a major plank in Obama's health care reform plan. ...
Jason Rosenbaum: Harry and Louise Are Back: Insurers Planning on Double-Crossing Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
According to new information obtained by the Washington Post:
One week after the nation's health insurance lobby pledged to President Obama to do what it can to constrain rising health costs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is putting the finishing touches on a public message campaign aimed at killing a key plank in Obama's reform platform.
As part of what it calls an "informational website," the company has hired an outside PR company to make a series of videos sounding the alarm about a government-sponsored health insurance ...
Ad Wars Heat Up In Health Care Debate As Wyden Plan Is Targeted
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The radio ad, which is being accompanied by the website, http://www.stopwydenshealthtax.com, underscores a rare willingness among some in the labor community to go after traditionally sympathetic Democrats on health care. But it also comes at a time when health care industry stakeholders are beginning to exert their influence in the broader policy debate. The Washington Post reported on Monday that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina had begun a public message campaign aimed at killing a public plan for insurance coverage. Other groups, including Health Care for America Now ...
Insurance Lobby Reverses Course, Prepares To Smear Key Element Of Obama’s Health Reform
Think Progress —
... that promise, but the Washington Post reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has drafted ads aimed at smearing the President’s proposed public health insurance plan. ...
BC/BS’s Attacks: Health Insurers Fear They Have Something To Lose
Wonk Room —
... ” with President Obama and Congress “to provide quality, affordable coverage and access for every American,” North Carolina’s Blue Cross Blue Shield is “putting the finishing touches on a public message campaign” aimed at defeating a new public health plan option: ...
No one could have imagined
Political Animal —
NO ONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED.... A major insurance company, trying to undermine health care reform efforts? You don't say . One week after the nation's health insurance lobby pledged to President Obama to do what it can to constrain rising health costs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is putting the finishing touches on a public message campaign aimed at killing a key plank in Obama's reform platform. As part of what it calls an "informational website," the company has hired an outside PR company to make a series of videos sounding the alarm about a ...
Here Comes Harry & Louise
Open Left - Front Page —
Well, it looks like those of us who warned that the hopey changey rhetoric out of the health insurance industry last week was probably going to turn out to be bullshit were right: ...
5/20: Whose Side Are You On, Harry?
Blogometer —
... ' Matthew Yglesias responds to the NC Blue Cross Blue Shield's attack on Obama's proposal to provide Americans with a gov't-sponsored health care option: "The proposals currently before congress would not, of course, create a government-run health care system. There is, however, a proposal to create a health care system that would include a widely available public health insurance option. The point of this would be to try and see if private industry actually can do better then a government-run insurance plan. After all, if the public option offered rationing and ...
Sahil Kapur: Destruction Of Health Care Reform: Another Sequel
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Democrats, to resist.
It began in the progressive era, when they disrupted Theodore Roosevelt's public health plan and intimidated FDR into dropping it from the New Deal. They soon grew in power, squashing the efforts of Truman and the 1940s Democrats to guarantee coverage to all Americans. They tried unsuccessfully to kill Medicare and Medicaid in the '60s, and butchered Clinton-care in the '90s. And now they're at it again, in the midst of yet another smear campaign.
The Republican Party, under the guise of limited government, has ...
Is Obama Being Cowed By Clinton Administration Ghosts of Don't Ask Don't Tell and Healthcare?
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... for universal coverage is not a new battle: It began in the progressive era , when they disrupted Theodore Roosevelt's public health plan and intimidated FDR into dropping it from the New Deal. They soon grew in power, squashing the efforts of Truman and the 1940s Democrats to guarantee coverage to all Americans. They tried unsuccessfully to kill Medicare and Medicaid in the '60s, and butchered Clinton-care in the '90s. And now they're at it again, in the midst of yet another smear campaign . But the crushing failure of healthcare reform cast a shadow ...
