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The Republican Leadership Health Plan: For The Healthy, While They’re Healthy
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/3/2009
The Republican Leadership Health Plan: For The Healthy, While They’re Healthy
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The Republican leadership in the House has sent a health care bill to the Congressional Budget Office and the early details don’t look good : - Insurers could circumvent state-based consumer protections by selling policies across state lines - Health care costs will be reduced by ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 11/2/2009
A Republican Health Care Plan
— swampland.blogs.time.com — Better late than never, I guess. While individual Republicans have offered proposals (and hundreds of amendments), there... has been no real GOP alternative to the various health care bills that are working their way through Congress. Now, John Boehner ... (more) A Republican Health Care Plan

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huffingtonpost.com - 11/2/2009
Tamar Abrams: Health Care Coverage: Healthy Topic of Conversation
— huffingtonpost.com — A teacher, a lawyer and a writer walk into a bar and start talking about their health... insurance coverage. Not the beginning of a joke, but the happy reality of life in the fall of 2009. A topic that for so long was just not discussed has been ... (more) Tamar Abrams: Health Care Coverage: Healthy Topic of ...

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Fired Up! Missouri:  Promises Broken: House GOP Plan Doesn't Bar Discrimination For Pre-Existing Conditions

Firedoglake:  Bipartisanship Lives! Eshoo Amendment Embraced by GOP in “Alternative” Health Bill

Blue Commonwealth - Front Page:  FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/3/09)

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Promises Broken: House GOP Plan Doesn't Bar Discrimination For Pre-Existing Conditions
Fired Up! Missouri — ... often are much more expensive than regular insurance and have had only limited success in reducing the ranks of the uninsured.” President Obama and the Senate Finance Committee have also embraced increased funding for high risk pools, but only as a stop gap until 2013, when insurers would be prohibited from denying people coverage based on preexisting conditions under their legislation. Igor Volsky has more: Nationwide, high-risk pools cover fewer than 200,000 ...

Bipartisanship Lives! Eshoo Amendment Embraced by GOP in “Alternative” Health Bill
Firedoglake — ... , filled with some really bad ideas. The Republicans did find basically only one section of the Democrats’ reform bill they really liked. In fact, the Republicans thought it was such a great idea that they added it, completely unchanged, to to their alternative bill. ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/3/09)
Blue Commonwealth - Front Page — ... , filled with some really bad ideas."  I don't know about you, but I'm personally shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you! - that John Boehner and Eric Cantor would have come up with anything "meaningless" or with "really bad ideas" in it. (extreme snark and eye rolls) ...

A Good While Longer, I Think
Matthew Yglesias — ... The Obama plan is, in my view, sort of loosely modeled on the Swiss and Dutch systems. And it’s attracted no support whatsoever from conservative politicians. But the GOP leadership did release a health care plan, focused on deregulation of health insurance companies, that would do nothing to reduce the number of uninsured people. I think it’s perfectly fair to say that universal coverage is the issue separating the left and right. When I see conservative politicians getting behind some version of universal coverage—even something like ...

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