Ad Slams Obama for Failing to Deliver on Health Care Goals

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 Hey, guess what? Politicians don't always make good on their campaign pledges -- and Barack Obama is no exception, unfortunately. Although the president challenged his critics Tuesday on the subject of his campaign pledges about health care compared to the current version of reform legislation taking shape in Congress, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee begs to differ in its newly released media spot. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Defiant in Face of Health Care Criticism

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 So, as we all know, Congress is getting closer to passing a version of the much-ballyhooed health care reform bill this holiday season. But will it look anything like what Barack Obama talked up while he was but a proto-president on the campaign trail? He thinks so. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Deadly Cost of Blocking Health Care Reform

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Dec 19, 2009 The liberals attacking the Senate health reform bill must never have known real illness. They’ve never been fired at the age of 50 and left without health insurance. They’ve probably never known anyone who died for lack of health insurance.I thought Joe Lieberman was the dumbest politician from New England until Howard Dean urged Senate Democrats to vote against health reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Subverting Health Care Reform

Staff / Truthdig Nov 15, 2009 The fight against health care reform is being waged partly by secretive front groups such as Americans for Quality and Affordable Healthcare. While its sponsorship may be cloaked in mystery, its aims fit nicely with those of the health insurance industry. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Health Care Reform Insurance Companies Can Believe In

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Oct 20, 2009 It’s now clear that health care “reform” is a bonanza for the insurance companies But these acquisitive businesses want even more Their efforts to increase their profits are at the center of the clandestine Senate and House negotiations currently shaping the health bill. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 14, 2009 There is an odd disconnect between the furious public debate over health care reform, with its emphasis on the cost of an increased government role, and the nonexistent discussion about the far more expensive and largely secretive government program to bail out Wall Street. The health care debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The $380 Million Gorilla

Staff / Truthdig Oct 1, 2009 With six lobbyists for every congressperson and $380 million spent on lobbying in recent months, the health care industry has pulled out all the stops in battling against any reform to the nation's health insurance system, no matter how watered down it might be. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Baucus & Co. Shoot Down Public Option Amendment

Staff / Truthdig Sep 29, 2009 Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and his merry band of legislators on Tuesday nixed an amendment proposing that a government-backed "public option" be included in Baucus' contested health care reform plan, using the argument that the public option addition would further diminish the bill's chances of passing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Brother, Can You Spare a Few Billion More?

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2009 Those poor, beleaguered health insurance honchos would be totally out to sea without the help of Hollywood's best and brightest -- Jon Hamm, Will Ferrell and Olivia Wilde among them -- to launch a dinghy of hope their way in the form of this timely PSA. Down with the public option! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Baucus Planning Health Care Bill 2.0

Staff / Truthdig Sep 22, 2009 After receiving a less-than-spectacular reception from his congressional colleagues for his health care reform bill last week, Sen. Max Baucus is going back to the drawing board to work on some big changes in an effort to win more of his aforementioned peers to his side. Meanwhile, Sen. Olympia Snowe remains undeclared about his first draft. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Death of Death Panels

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig Aug 22, 2009 The demise of the recent “death panels” debate was quick and painless -- unlike so many of the deaths that will occur among those who will now be without the benefit of their doctor’s knowledge of the dying process.The demise of “death panels” was quick and painless -- unlike so many deaths that will occur among those now without the benefit of their doctor's counsel. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

In a Reasoned Debate, Single Payer Will Come Out on Top

By Laura S. Boylan, M.D., and Joanne Landy, M.P.H. Aug 19, 2009 Single-payer advocates have been excluded from debate not because our premises or facts are wrong but because special interests, including the private health insurance industry and the big drug companies, have been allowed to define the limits of "politically feasible." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )