12/24/09: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Senate bill) (Democratic Policy Committee website)
11/7/09: As passed by the House, H.R. 3962, The Affordable Health Care for America Act
11/3/09: Manager's Amendment to H.R. 3962
10/29/09: New U.S. House bill, H.R. 3962, The Affordable Health Care for America Act
The two Senate bills below currently are being merged into a single bill.
9/16/09: U.S. Senate Finance Committee "Chairman's Markup" (markup to begin Sept. 22)
7/15/09: U.S. Senate HELP Committee health care reform bill released
7/14/09: U.S. House health care reform bill released (H.R. 3200). Replaced by H.R. 3962.
"Testimony--The Growing Problem of Underinsurance in the United States: What It Means for Working Families and How Health Reform Will Help." Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., The Commonwealth Fund, October 15, 2009
For Seniors:
Health Insurance Reform: A Guide for Seniors, put out by the Speaker’s office (4 pages). This also is available as a brochure, formatted to be printed on both sides of 11x17 paper and folded as a brochure.
Other Fact Sheets Available Relating to Seniors:
- HR 3200 Restores Equity Between Traditional Medicare & Medicare Advantage
- HR 3200 Lowers the Cost of Prescription Drugs Under Medicare
- CBO Analysis of Medicare Part D Premiums, August 28, 2009
- Improving the Medicare Part D Drug Program
- Strengthening Medicare
- Senior Citizens and People with Disabilities
For Young People:
"Young Americans and Health Insurance Reform: Giving Young Americans the Security and Stability They Need"
For women:
"Roadblocks to Health Care: Why the Current Health Care System Does Not Work for Women"
President Obama's Fiscal 2010 Budget: Transforming and Modernizing America's Health Care System
Websites listed by the Democratic Majority Leader (as of 8/18/09):
- Alliance for Health Reform
- Center for American Progress
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Families USA
- HealthReform.gov
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Majority Leader Clearinghouse
- MedPAC
- National Health Policy Forum
- Partnership for Prevention
- RAND Health
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Health reform
- Synthesis Project
- Trust for America's Health
"Health Care Reform: An Online Guide," list of resources, 6/10/09
"Public Health Insurance Page," Campaign for America's Future, 3/31/09
"Health Insurance Exchanges - Making the Markets Work." New England Journal of Medicine, 9/17/09
| "An Exclusive Interview With Christina Romer." By Ezra Klein, 6/3/09"The Economic Case for Health Care Reform." Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President. June 2009. 56 pp. |
| "The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care," by Atul Gawande, 6/1/09 |
| "Begala health memo rebuts Luntz's," 5/21/09Here's the link to the Luntz memo again: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdf Begala's memo: "Countering Republican Orwellian Rhetoric On Health Care." By Paul Begala, 5/21/09
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Co-ops: "Can Health Co-Ops Do the Job of a Public Plan?" 6/22/09
Polls, surveys: "Americans struggle to pay for healthcare - study." 6/22/09
Drug costs: "PhRMA's Big Deal." 6/22/09
"Centrist" Democrats: "Health Care Showdown." By Paul Krugman, 6/22/09
"Centrist" Democrats: "Senate Democrats Against The Public Option Aren't Caving They Just Don't Believe In Real Universal Healthcare." 6/22/09
Summaries: "Editorial: A Public Health Plan." 6/21/09
Public plan option - what it does: "Hey Moderates, Public Health Plan Option Will Cut Costs (And Other Fun Facts)." By Bill Scher, 6/21/09
Polls, surveys: "In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health." 6/20/09
House bill: "A Very, Very, Very Fine House Bill." By Tim Foley, 6/19/09
House bill: "House Unveils Health Bill, Minus Key Details." 6/19/09
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"What insurance companies want is to stave off the one thing that truly intimidates them: having to compete on a level playing field against a public health insurance plan. Knowing that we will have the ability to walk away from the private insurance industry altogether if they keep abusing our trust is what frightens them, and what might just scare them straight in the future."
"Nothing Intimidates Health Insurers Like the Public Health Insurance Plan." By Monica Sanchez, OurFuture.org, 6/19/09
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"Proving We Can Afford Public Plan Choice," By Isiah J. Poole, OurFuture.org, 6/19/09
"When We Talk About Health Care, We're Forgetting One Important Group: The Already Insured." AlterNet.org, 6/19/09
"The Finance Committee's "Comprehensive Incrementalism." By Ezra Klein, Washington Post, 6/18/09
"Defining Affordability In Health Care Reform." By Igor Volsky, Wonk Room, 6/18/09
"How Do We Keep the Senate from Running Away on Health Care?" By Tim Foley, Change.org, 6/18/09
"Report: Health care costs to rise 9% in 2010," USA Today, 6/18/09
"Obama Boost: New Poll Shows 76% Support For Choice Of Public Plan." By Sam Stein, 6/17/09
How your health insurance company can rescind your policy when you make a claim:
"'The horror, the horror' —Health Insurance CEOs Testify in Congress," 6/17/09
"Not the Health Care Co-ops They Had in Mind." By Tom Sullivan, OurFuture.org, 6/17/09
"The Bipartisanship of Fools." By E.J. Dionne, Truthdig.com, 6/17/09/
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"A Rational Look At Rationing." By Ezra Klein, Washington Post, 6/17/09
"Health Care Rationing Rhetoric Overlooks Reality." By David Leonhardt, New York Times, 6/17/09
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"The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession." By Joe Conason, Truthdig.com, 6/17/09
"Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling.’" By Ellen Goodman, Truthdig.com, 6/17/09
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"Private Muscle And The Public Option In Health Care." By Robert Borosage, 6/17/09
"Health Insurance Exchanges: The Most Important, Undernoticed Part of Health Reform." By Ezra Klein, 6/16/09
"Dem, GOP centrists meet in secret," 6/16/09
"Congre$$, Heal Thyself." By Amy Goodman, 6/16/09
"Four Reasons Why Giving Consumers the Choice of a Public Health Insurance Plan Is Great Politics for Democrats." By Robert Creamer, 6/16/09
"New Poll Shows Tremendous Support for Public Health Care Option." By Bernie Horn, 6/15/09
"The Isolationism of Health Reform: Why won't Congress consider how other countries do it?" 6/15/09
"Repeat After Me: This Is Only a Partial Estimate." By Jonathan Cohn, 6/15/09
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"The AMA Doesn't Represent Doctors," Jason Rosenbaum, 6/15/09
"The AMA Does Not Represent Us." By Dr. Margaret Flowers and Dr. Carol Paris, 6/14/09
"AMA to Obama: Feh." By Jonathan Cohn, 6/15/09
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"Obama offers more cuts to pay for health reform," 6/13/09
"The Rise of Single-Payer Health Care." By David Swanson, 6/12/09
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"A co-op for the public option? Let's talk principles." By Jason Rosenbaum, 6/12/09
"The Public Plan Compromise That Isn't." By Ezra Klein, 6/12/09
"The Latest Public Option Bamboozle, and How to Recognize the Real Thing." By Robert Reich, 6/11/09
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"Why Health Insurers Don't Control Costs." By Phillip Cryan, 6/10/09
"On Health Care, Congress Must Navigate Tricky Political Terrain," 6/10/09
"Health Reform for Beginners: The Difference Between Socialized Medicine, Single-Payer Health Care, and What We'll Be Getting." By Ezra Klein, 6/9/09
"The Paradox of Health Reform: Employer-based health insurance is dying. Why does Obama want to save it?" By Timothy Noah, 6/9/09
"Blue Dog Democrats could have major role in shaping health bill," 6/9/09
"Say 'No Way' To Third Way's Health Care Hybrid." By Isaiah J. Poole, 6/9/09
"Health Care Reform for Beginners: The Many Flavors of the Public Plan." By Ezra Klein, 6/8/09
"Gutting the Health Care Plan: The Scorpion and the Congress." By Paul Loeb, 6/8/09/p>
"Why Not Single-Payer?" By Bernie Horn, 6/8/09
"Get Sick. See Health Insurance Vanish. Watch States Fail to Curb Insurance Company Practice." By Monica Sanchez, 6/5/09
"Keeping Them Honest." By Paul Krugman, 6/5/09
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"As the health insurance industry and its defenders in Congress lay out their case against permitting a public option in a reform bill, perhaps their most curious argument is that some 119 million Americans are ready to dump their private plans and jump to something more like Medicare – and that’s why the choice can’t be permitted." --
"119 Million Americans Must Be Wrong," 6/5/09
Fact sheet on our health care system. (Be sure to click on the items at the bottom of the article, to open up additional information.) [Posted 6/2/09]
"Time to Trash the Trigger." By Mike Lux, 6/2/09
"A 'Belt and Suspenders' Approach to Fiscally Responsible Health Reform," Peter R. Orszag, Director, Office of Management and Budget, 6/1/09
"Progressive groups push public plan," 6/1/09
"Interactive Map: Health Care Competition. Insurance Market Domination Leads to Fewer Choices." June 2009
"What is Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Why is it Being Badmouthed?" June 2009
"Medicare For All: The Wrong Answer To The Right Question." By Joe Paduda, 5/28/09
"Why We Can't Compromise On Public-Plan Choice." By Jacob S. Hacker, 5/27/09
"How the Public Hurts Health Care Reform." By Ezra Klein, 5/27/09
"More Right-Wing Lies, With Beer Chaser." By Jonathan Cohn, 5/26/09
"Blue Double Cross." By Paul Krugman, 5/21/09
"What Would Happen if we Delayed Health Care Reform?" By Ezra Klein, 5/21/09
"Progressive Revenue Options to Fund Health Care Reform." Citizens for Tax Justice, 5/21/09
"The Health Care Lobby: Watch What They Do." By Robert Borosage, 5/20/09
"Budget Scolds Shouldn't Drown Out the Chorus Calling for Health Reform." By Steven Pearlstein, Business Columnist, 5/20/09
"Your guide to distortions on health care," 5/19/09
"'Like Medicare?' We Love It!" By Tim Foley, 5/19/09t
"Health Costs Are the Real Deficit Threat: That's why President Obama is making health-care reform a priority." By PETER R. ORSZAG, 5/15/09