Working the Phones
Since Monday, the President has held 64 meetings or phone calls with Members of Congress on health insurance reform. Here’s one:
President Barack Obama talks to a Member of Congress while en route to George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to deliver remarks on health insurance reform, March 19, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete [...]
Why We Can’t Wait
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32,000,000 — that’s the number of Americans who will get health insurance under the President’s plan. [Source: Congressional Budget Office]
That’s also a little more than the populations of Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona — COMBINED. [Source: U.S. Census Bureau]
Over the course of our ‘Health Reform by the [...]
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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 [...]
The Masscare Massacre
On Sunday, White House political adviser David Axelrod appeared
on ABC’s “This Week” and tried to brush aside the message sent by
Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) improbable election. “Senator Brown
comes from a state that has a health care plan that’s similar to
the one we’re trying to enact [...]
Open for Questions with Secretary Sebelius at 5:15
This morning HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius takes to the virtual pages of Yahoo! News to make the case once more on the urgency of reform for countless Americans for whom a health crisis puts their entire life in shambles. She harkens back to Natoma’s story, which the President told in Ohio this week, and explains the [...]
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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 [...]
