"Guys, this is a major program to aid lower- and lower-middle-income families."

[ProSense]

"Guys, this is a major program to aid lower- and lower-middle-income families. How is that not a big progressive victory?"

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/numerical-notes-on-health-care-reform/

Low-income state workers begin to gain access to Children’s Health Insurance Program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2011/11/04/gIQAeDvotM_story.html

Obama Administration awards nearly $300 million to states for enrolling eligible children in health
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100281601

Mr. President, my apologies for attacking your health plan
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/135202878.html

2011 Year in Review: Eight Ways the Health Care Law Helps You
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100286001

The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/12/02/the-bomb-buried-in-obamacare-explodes-today-halleluja/

More Proof Big-Profit Insurers Doomed; Single Payer Coming Sooner Rather Than Later
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/12/28/more-proof-that-the-american-for-profit-health-insurance-model-is-doomed/

Vt. gets $18M for health exchange
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2011/december/vt-gets-18m-for-health-exchanges

Krugman, again:

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...It seems the Democrats have done it. The Senate version of health reform will become law, with an improved version coming through reconciliation. This is, of course, a political victory for Obama, and a triumph for Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker. But it is also a victory for America's soul. In the end, a vicious, unprincipled fear offensive failed to block reform. This time, fear struck out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/22/healthcare-reform-obama-victory-americans

The results have been looking good. Opinions vary!



http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/8265.cfm

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[TheWraith]

2. Kicked and recommended. nt

[Zalatix]

3. Wow, Dems stand alone in supporting the Individual Mandate.....

Might be wise to lose that one before it becomes an albatross.

Medicare for all!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Health_Care_Act

[ProSense]

4. That's a split. n/t

[ProSense]

5. Grayson

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We still have over 30 million Americans who cannot see a doctor when they are sick. According to this Harvard study, adjusting for gender, race, smoking, weight, and just about everything else that you can think of, in any given year, the uninsured are 40% more likely to die than the insured are. That results in 44,789 additional deaths in America each year. All of which are avoidable.

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Do you think that we should solve this problem? I do.

And the Democratic Party does. Which is why we passed health care reform. And why we brought the wrath of lobbyists and their sewer money down on our heads in the last election – over $65 million by the Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s “American Crossroads” alone.

I see one party taking on the special interests and enacting laws to keep Americans alive, and assure that you can see a doctor when you are sick. Like in every other industrialized country in the world.

And the other party’s health care plan? “Don’t get sick.” They keep pushing this ridiculous notion that people are uninsured because they don’t want insurance, when polling has showed that up to 90% of the uninsured are uninsured because they can’t afford insurance.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/20/937697/-What-I-Didnt-Hear