Health care reform debate nears final days

Well, it looks like the debate over health care is nearly over, or so Congress would have us believe. After several versions of health care reform emerged from their different Congressional committees and were all combined into the two versions that passed the House and the Senate, respectively, the Democrats are still wrangling among themselves [...]

President Obama on FOX News – Video

I think it would be beneficial to watch this video of the interview FOX News conducted with President Obama on March 17, 2010. With all due respect to the President, he did not answer the question Bret Baier asked him at the onset of the interview. Every time Baier tried to bring the discussion back [...]

The Slaughter Solution for health care reform

Well, back to the grindstone this week and back to discussing health care reform once again. As I was driving into work this morning, NPR’s Morning Edition was discussing that this is the week when health care reform is likely to come to the floor of the House and subsequently to an up or down [...]

The second health care bill

Frankly, I am tired of hearing and writing about the debate over health care reform. I can’t even begin to count the articles Mike and I have written about the subject and the debate isn’t over yet. All this week, President Obama has been traveling around the country, touting the need for reform and how [...]

Obama – Time to make a decision

Over the past several months, there has been countless articles written about the debate over health care reform. Since the House and the Senate passed their respective versions of reform, the debate has grown over how they will reconcile those versions into a bill that President Obama can sign into law. Mike and I both [...]

Congressman Paul Ryan explains health care reform – Video

How about a show of hands? Is anyone tired of hearing and reading about the debate over health care reform? I didn’t get the chance to watch the health care summit at the Blair House, so I am going back and watching a few of the video segments that are available. One of the ones [...]

President Obama unveils health care plan

First, there was the multiple health care reform plans put forth by the different committees in Congress. Those plans were then molded, melded, and otherwise shaken down and pressed together into the plans that came out of the House and the Senate, respectively. Now that those two plans are being hashed together behind closed doors, [...]

Thoughts on the bipartisan health care meeting

If you’ve read my earlier posts on health care reform you know I advocate the need for change on the basis of economic necessity both individual and national – to deal with our looming budget deficits we need to take action to control the explosive growth in Medicare and Medicaid costs. Though taking issue with [...]

Bipartisan health care reform talks

On February 25, President Obama has scheduled a discussion on health care reform to take place at the White House and has invited Democrats and Republicans alike, as well as health care experts, to come to the meeting and talk about their proposals to overhaul our health care system. His stated purpose for the televised [...]

Is health care reform dead? Part 2

OK, so by my thinking we need an insurance mandate to reduce the ranks of the uninsured not because it’s their right or the country’s obligation but because it’s a national economic imperative in order to address a long-term financial crisis. In addition, we want to prevent our insurance companies from dropping coverage when someone [...]

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