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The long, hot summer of 2009.
We're expecting a long, hot summer in D.C. this year. No, not because of global warming (in fact, it's been unusually rainy and cool the last few weeks), but because health care reform is heating "up at long last.
Legislation to guarantee affordable quality health care for all is being introduced in the Congress as we go to print. That means that opponents of change are going to step up their opposition. High-priced lobbyists will go to work, attempting to water down health care reform bills until they're too weak to do any real good. And, expect to start seeing misleading ads again about the dangers of reform, just like we did back in 1993, when the "Harry and Louise" ads turned the public against President Clinton's heath care reform plan.
I know we can overcome opposition to health care reform if we and our allies--including the ones we elected--are willing to take the heat and stay in the fight. We need to be on Capitol Hill every day from now until the day when the final legislation passes. We need to walk the same halls as those high-priced lobbyists, visit the same offices, attend the same hearings, and make sure that members of Congress hear from us about how badly women need real change for ourselves and our families.
We need to continue mobilizing, through Raising Women's Voices Speak Outs, ...
- Health care reform spurs partisan battles
- Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze Jim Steinberg September 29, 2009 700+ words
...Comparison of the House, Senate bills * -- How health care reform can affect you * -- Obama's 8 general principles...topics of interest * -- Baucus, Kyl spar over health care * -- Health care reform hotspots * -- Romney a victim in health care...
- HEALTH CARE Health care reform, not just insurance reform The Baucus bill is a...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel DAVID HAYNES October 11, 2009 700+ words
...percent of Americans said that health care reform is "more important than ever...fee-for-service culture in health care that rewards volume over quality...progress. It is not so much health care reform as it is insurance reform...
- No Harry and Louise.(Society; HEALTH CARE)(health care reform)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Connolly, Katie March 23, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Katie Connolly Why health-care reform might be different now. Chip Kahn is one of those Washington warriors who helped bury health-care reform. In the summer of 1993, he pitched a simple idea...
- Voodoo health care. (health care reform) (Editorial)
- Magazine article from: The Nation September 5, 1994 700+ words
...results of the current struggle for health care reform, surely the most poignant has...companies, drug manufacturers and health care conglomerates that have been...reform act would be to degrade the health care that most Americans now receive...
- What's the Future of Health-Care Reform?
- Transcript from: The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network) Bill O'Reilly, Carl Cameron October 8, 2009 700+ words
...SYKES, COMEDIAN: Reform in health care, oh my God. That's a huge...inject a little levity into this health-care thing because I am so tired...everything went perfect for health- care/Obama care reform supporters, just perfect...
- Health-care hustle. (health care reform will be disappointing) (Editorial)
- Magazine article from: The Progressive April 1, 1994 700+ words
...responsibility for the failure of health-care reform - and it's obvious now that...to preserve intact. Real health-care reform has never been on the Clinton...full distance for genuine health-care reform. Once a single-payer plan...
- Primary care: the driver in health care reform.(Health Care Marketplace)
- Magazine article from: Physician Executive Pollard, John W. October 1, 1995 700+ words
...industry in responding to the drivers of health care reform. Costs are reduced while quality is...bad news for health care. Government health care reform is moribund. Market-driven health care reform is alive and well and causing significant...
- Health care wars. (health care reform debate)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century March 9, 1994 700+ words
...hierarchy's priorities as health care reform legislation unfolds. "Our major concerns are how health care reform touches the unserved, uninsured...endorse "any single proposal for health care reform," the pastoral message affirms...
Source: HighBeam Research, The long, hot summer of 2009.