Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare Reform’
HOLLINSHEAD: Boy’s Health Insurance Company a Real ‘Death Panel’
Kevin Hollinshead, Progressive
Five year-old Kyler VanNocker of Edgewater Park, NJ has neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly type of childhood cancer that attacks the nervous system, leaving his body riddling his body with tumors. But Kyler’s health insurance company denied him the proven-effective treatment and decided to place their profits above a doctor’s opinion. To deny Kyler coverage was to prescribe his death.
MARIN: John Boehner’s Guide to the Healthcare Summit
Paul Marin’s ideal GOP strategy for facing the President’s healthcare summit and capturing the president’s bipartisan aura.
MARIN: Bribes We Can’t Believe In
Paul Marin, Liberal Republican
Before the State of the Union address, President Obama will have likely signed comprehensive healthcare reform legislation — legislation secured through political bribes. A bipartisan approach is necessary to prevent political bribes from reoccurring the in the future.
HOLLINSHEAD: Limbaugh Loves (Socialized) Medical Care in Hawaii
by Kevin Hollinshead, Progressive
Upon his discharge from the hospital after being admitted for chest pain, Rush remarked that “there is nothing wrong with the American health care system. I received no special treatment.” Here, he inadvertently stumbled upon the real point here—American medicine is indeed a godsend. At least, for those who can afford it. No one in Hawaii is given special treatment, because, yep, everyone can afford it.
BILBO: The Impermanence of Health Care Reform
Only a strong public option can ensure the permanence of President Obama’s reforms
Carpenter: Stop Playing Games with Our Health
The public option is dead and the debate continues. The reality remains that Americans still need health care reform and it’s time to deliver it.
MARIN: Lifting Each Other Up
The GOP should fight for their free market solutions to healthcare and not against reform or universal coverage. It is better for them — and for the country.
CARPENTER: When ‘Change’ Meets the Real World
Emma Carpenter, Staff Writer
Ideology: Liberal Democrat | Writing From: George Washington University
What happens to the value of change when it is promised but never delivered? I fear that the idea [...]
SIEG: Overcoming Path Dependence in Healthcare
Emily Sieg, Staff Writer
Ideology: Social Democrat | Writing From: Washington, DC
The long and tumultuous strive for healthcare reform in the United States could prove one of the greatest social experiments [...]
BILBO: Bart Stupak’s Coat Hanger Amendment
The Stupak Amendment would limit choice and drive abortion access back into the 1950s.
WALK: ObamaCare Would Repeat the Errors of RomneyCare
There are significant flaws with Massachusetts’ health care reform, which the Democrats’ health care plans are largely modeled on.
SIEFF: YOUNG AMERICA NEEDS HEALTH REFORM
There is an urgent need to pass health insurance reform this year in order to bring stability and improved care to all Americans, including young adults.
BARON: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deathers
Though our college campuses might be hotbeds of American liberalism (or social progressivism, or left-wing-nut-ism), it is vital that universities serve not only as places of learning, but also of free and open inquiry.