The Truth Behind Public Option

New Poll: 77 Percent Support “Choice” Of Public Option

More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a “choice” between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.
A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage [...]

Insurance companies “glory days” are about to end!

Daschle Lays Out a Plan to Overhaul Health Care

Tom Daschle formally began the incoming administration’s arduous quest to overhaul the nation’s health care system on Thursday, telling former Senate colleagues that the task had become more urgent because many people were losing health insurance, along with their jobs, in the recession.
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Attorney Wants Criminal Charges Against Insurer

Geragos Calls Cigna Official Who Denied Teen’s Transplant ‘Garbage’
The lawyer for California teen Nataline Sarkisyan charged today that the only reason Cigna Health Care officials changed their minds and approved a liver transplant for the desperate girl was they knew it was too late and they wouldn’t have to pay for it.
Sarkisyan, 17, died Thursday [...]

Clinton gets standing ovations from evangelicals

The presidential contender was the only candidate to speak at the AIDS summit.
LAKE FOREST – Many evangelical Christians have taken issue with Hillary Clinton for promoting abortion rights, gay rights and teen condom use, but you wouldn’t have known it from the standing ovation that greeted her at Saddleback Church this afternoon.
Although all leading presidential candidates [...]

Rudy Giuliani Misrepresents Important Health Care Facts

ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: To hear Rudy Giuliani describe it in his new radio ad, the British medical system is a scary place. “My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States: 82 percent,” Giuliani says in a new radio spot airing in [...]

House Defies Bush and Passes Insurance Bill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the vote “a step forward” even though it fell short of the majority needed to override a veto.
Once again defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House on Thursday passed a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children. But supporters did not have enough votes to override the [...]

McConnell has Taxpayer Subsidized Health Care

Opposes expanding taxpayer subsidized care, which he has…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has warned about the slippery slope leading to “government-run health care for everyone” while rallying his colleagues against expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.But as a U.S. senator, McConnell gets government-run, taxpayer-subsidized insurance through the Federal Employee Health [...]

Massachusetts Repeals Romney-Era Rules Limiting Stem-Cell Research

A public-health panel in Massachusetts voted unanimously on Wednesday to overturn controversial restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research that were imposed during the administration of former Gov. Mitt Romney.
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