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3 million — that’s the decrease in the number of middle-income earners who obtained health insurance from their employers from 2000 to 2008. [Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]
And 3 times — is how much faster health care premiums are rising compared to wages. [Source: Kaiser Family [...]
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9 — that’s number of states and the District of Columbia where there is still no specific law that makes it illegal for insurers to reject applicants who are survivors of domestic violence by citing the history of domestic violence as a pre-existing condition. [Source]
In many [...]
What Kucinich Will Have to Walk Back if He Flip Flops
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is holding a press conference at 10 a.m. tomorrow to announce his vote on the health care bill. Kucinich voted "no" on the House bill in November. So it seems very likely that he's going to flip his vote to "yes"–Kucinich wouldn't rebuke Obama so publicly, would he?
Here's what [...]
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If you’re an American under the age of 65, there’s roughly a 50/50 chance that you will find yourself without coverage at some point in the next decade.[Source]
President Obama first highlighted this staggering figure in a weekly address from this past September and detailed how, in [...]
Sobering poll news for 35 key House members
Democrats who think believe they’ll be in better shape if they pass Obamacare had better think again. A survey that will be released today by the Polling Company on behalf of Independent Women’s Voice shows that voters in key congressional districts are clear in their opposition to what they have seen, read and heard on [...]
Gitmo’s indefensible lawyers: A case study
Early on in the Bush administration, the enemy combatants detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay became a cause of the left. In particular, they became a cause of the American bar, which is itself a subset of the institutional left. From the American Bar Association, to the elite law firms, to [...]
