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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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 Americans Deserve
Today I had the honor of addressing BET’s first ever “Leading Women Summit” in Washington, DC. The Summit brought together artists, community activists, media representatives and professional women from across the country to work on finding solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing the African American community. I welcomed the opportunity to participate [...]
Will the Republicans Post Their Health Plan… and When?
The President believes strongly that Thursday’s bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform will be most productive if both sides come to the table with a unified plan to start discussion – and if the public has the opportunity to inspect those proposals up close before the meeting happens.
That’s why yesterday the White House posted online [...]
In Praise of the ‘Small Bill’
Ross Douthat has a great suggestion for the GOP in his latest column:
Writing in The Weekly Standard, for instance, Jeffrey H. Anderson has proposed covering an extra 10 million Americans with a mixture of tax credits for the uninsured and better-funded risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions. One could imagine Republicans taking Anderson’s “small [...]
Axelrod’s ‘New’ Transparency
When it comes to misreading the message from Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, presidential advisor David Axelrod takes the cake.
Axelrod discussing health care legislation on ABC’s This Week yesterday with ABC anchor Terry Moran: “People will never know what’s in that bill until we pass it”:
AXELROD: Terry, again, I think you’re misreading the Massachusetts poll. [...]
