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... their health insurance from private insurers, mostly through their employers, with some buying it directly from insurance companies. About half as many—87 million according to the latest report from the Census Bureau—are covered by Medicare (the federal program for the elderly...

... A S WE FACE THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS, THE STAKES HAVE NEVER been higher for health care reform. Health care is pricing itself beyond the / 1 reach of lower-income and middle-class Americans with no cost contain- / ment yet on the horizon. Seniors with Medicare...

... in the September/ costs of extending access is “paid for” by Medicare cost reductions October 2009 issue argued that “the perfect should and by increases in taxes on the wealthy. not be the enemy of the good” in adopting health care So, true comprehensive health care reform is just...

... HEALTH R E F O R M /T H E YES MEN health insurance, reductions in planned (Medicare averages 3 percent overhead, THE YES MEN Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to while insurance companies average 20 (continued from page 16) hospitals and other providers; cuts in subsi­ percent...

... an aspirin. She never again had to say “I want to die.” Ageism manifests in public policy: shouldn’t the media reproach and shame millionaire Congresspeople for ageist ableism when the Solons manipulate budgets and tax breaks in order to cut Medicare and Medicaid? Medical ageism ought to be one moral...

...AARON M. Roland Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 OP-ED BY AARON M. ROLAND The Health Care Battle Lines NE MORNING LAST SPRING I REACHED A WATERSHED that Medicare requires. Most would be fully funded by taxes rather in my determined...

... IS PLANNING include increased investments in research to prevent the diseases to do with the health care system? that are driving up Medicare and Medicaid costs, like Alzheimer’s The lawmakers’ goals seem clear: Extend basic and diabetes.) health care...

.... While lifestyle choices may O’Connor, former National Institutes of Health director Harold help defer Alzheimer’s, as with every disease, we cannot avoid the Varmus, former Medicare director Mark McClellan, former 50-50 chance of having this disease in our eighties. Alzheimer’s...

... and insured at the outset of leading Democratic health proposals stu­ are worthwhile and meaningful. Such talk their medical problems. diously avoid any implication of govern­ requires going beyond the boiler plate lan­ The Medicare-like public option is an ment intrusion, despite the far greater...

... to nine times higher than not-for-profit Medicare (average for commercial carriers 19-9 percent, investor-owned Blues 26.5 percent, Medicare 3 percent). • The inefficiency and bureaucracy of our 1,300 private insurers are not sustainable (e.g., according...

..., and the ongoing ravages of the mortgage disaster. Mitt Romney’s answer is a staggering 20 percent tax cut, which would explode the national debt, so he embraces the Ryan plan, which savages Medicaid and Medicare. Obama, by contrast, is talking about tax fairness and creating an infrastructure bank...

... Wars and the Cold spirational promise of “Obama as candidate.” Conservatives will War of the twentieth century were waged in the environment of a argue that this bitterness is the product of Democratic leader­ bipartisan foreign policy. Health care reforms—Medicare, ship ramming an Obama...

... has worked in our nation and what is effective in other advanced na­ tions. We envision a lifelong universal health system—much like traditional Medicare—that is nationwide. We envision a system that allows patients to choose where they receive their care, permits caregivers and patients...

... is a universal “Every­ our problems. body In and Nobody O ut” national health insurance. We The reform that passed is designed to fail. It further call this improved “Medicare for All.” enriches th e w orst parts of our health situation...

... be saying, “but that won’t work in 2009,” the truth is Care Plan” or “Universal Caring” or “Caring Medicine.” Or that backing away from this struggle is not going to work either, “Medicare for Everyone,” “Everyone Matters Health Care,” or nor will allowing the powerful to proceed with reforms...

... as privileged boomers —people over forty-five but not yet sixty-five. (People over sixty-five — the age at which Social Security and Medicare rescue many millions — were not at increased risk of suicide.) The bottom is dropping out, not yet for younger workers, but for the worker with experience. People...

... to impeach one of the own. The quintessence of this failure was the Obama Administration’s failure to champion “medicare for everyone.” Universal health care that built on the Medicare program that already served tens of millions of retired Americans was very popular, and had a proven record of providing...

... challenges will be met within the first one by stabilizing the financial sector and stimulating the economy hundred days. This candor, so dramatically missing during the may drive next year’s deficit and the national debt even higher. Ab­ presidential campaign, is urgently needed. sent reform, Medicare...

... to exercise. the reimbursement provided by Medicare, Medicaid, or That choice should not be denied by the FDA. private insurers for a routine health examination. New products are coming on the market all the time. And OMG, were we patients to know from genetic testing that there are “early...

... in moving up the income ladder. Seekers of the American Dream need a firm foundation to build for their futures, so a realistic safety net for low-income workers—including an honest solution to impending Social Secu­ rity and Medicare deficit—is essential in order to keep the American Dream...