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Merkley Discusses Need For Public Health Insurance Option With Kgw

Senator Merkley talks with KGW about the need for a public health insurance option in health care reform and how it will provide consumers with more choices, help cover millions of uninsured Americ…

Robert Reich Public Option Video

Robert Reich speaks directly on what the ‘public option’ is and why it is so important to health care reform.

Public Health Insurance Programs

This video details the benefits and drawbacks for an unemployed person seeking health insurance through a public health insurance program.
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The Real Goal Of The Public Plan Option – Squeezing Out Private & Employer-based Health Insurance

Follow us at: twitter.com/verumserum. Video features Jacob Hacker, the architect of the Public Plan option strategy that is central to the Obama healthcare plan. Hacker is responding to a question…

The Real Goal Of The Public Plan Option – Squeezing Out Private & Employer-based Health Insurance

Follow us at: twitter.com/verumserum. Video features Jacob Hacker, the architect of the Public Plan option strategy that is central to the Obama healthcare plan. Hacker is responding to a question…

Paul Krugman: Public Plan Will Kill Private Insurance Plans

Follow us at twitter.com/verumserum. Clip of Paul Krugman interviewed on Democracy Now! in October 2007. He is commenting on the health reform plans proposed by the Democratic candidates for Presid…

Maryland Insurance Continuing Education – Understanding Ethics

Oct.08, 2009 in UncategorizedProbably one of the first rules most of us are taught is “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Confronting the right wing

There are several reasons incidents or episodes in which prominent liberals have stood up and refuted lots of the right wing talking points. One of the problems, as I see it, is that the right wing confuses the public and throws out so much garbage, your average person has some trouble distinction between reality and propaganda. The right wing has written complete books of falsehoods.

Questions Regarding a Public Option

A Public Option is not necessary to implement health insurance reforms like:…How would the government assure fairness if it has the dual role of regulating while competing in the insurance market?…Is a Public Option Necessary for Health Insurance Reforms?…Is a Public Option Needed to Keep Health Insurance Companies “Honest”?…

Obama’s a 1-termer?

They’ve already killed the public option, thereby handing power back to the insurance companies as they’v e done for the past 50 years….

Some Democrats Say Healthcare Public Option Is Not Out – NIMBRUNG.NET

guardian.co.uk Some Democrats Say Healthcare Public Option Is Not Out U.S.

Thinking Like the Dutch

It is important to understand, though, that without the public option there must be much stronger regulations on the existing insurance industry in order to make i…The Dutch go further than current reform proposals, though, in insurance regulation….The law strictly prohibits ‘cherry-picking’ more profitable individuals, and cost sharing restrictions means all insurance companies are virtually non-profit….Unlike the “socialist agendas” of Canada and the UK that opponents love to reference, systems like the Netherlands rely not on public insurance but on heavily regulated p rivate insurance….

Thinking Like the Dutch

It is important to understand, though, that without the public option there must be much stronger regulations on the existing insurance industry in order to make i…The Dutch go further than current reform proposals, though, in insurance regulation….The law strictly prohibits ‘cherry-picking’ more profitable individuals, and cost sharing restrictions means all insurance companies are virtually non-profit….Unlike the “socialist agendas” of Canada and the UK that opponents love to reference, systems like the Netherlands rely not on public insurance but on heavily regulated p rivate insurance….

About those denials by private insurance companies (the Dems like …

Over the last few months the Democrats have been demonizing private health insurance companies and condemning them for denials of coverage, while touting the AMA’s endorsement of the public option (which followed an appeal from the …

Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

A cartoon explanation of why we need a public health insurance option. If you agree that a public option should be part of the health care reform bill, make sure you let your representatives know! And take action at www.YoungInvincibles.org Animated by Andy Lubershane. More comics at http Note: The data in this cartoon is [...]

H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic vs Dr. Mercola & Natural News

I am surprised that some one hasn’t sought out to discredit Dr. Mercola and Natural News long before now regarding the H1N1 Swine Flu.  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx   http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=851  claims that Mercola’s recent, “screed foisted upon the public is no such source” of information.  “ Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret ” reveals his exceptionally poor