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Opinion: Health Reform's Promises Keep Faltering
By John Merline - AOL News
(Nov. 20) -- Everyone knows the old cliche – Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But what do you say when you get fooled the third, fourth, fifth or sixth time? That's what supporters of health care reform might want to ask themselves 'round about now. After all, early promises made about the health care reform law enacted in March keep falling by the wayside. Here are a few of the big ones: It will be good for Democrats in November. In mid-March, White House adviser David Axelrod told CNN that reform would help Democrats in the midterms. And Robert Creamer ...
Who's the Bad Guy in Insurance Premium Hikes?
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(Feb. 19) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently told the story of villainous insurance companies charging double-digit rate increases for health coverage while taking "wildly excessive" profits. But economists and health experts said the plot is a lot more complicated. Health insurance premiums are increasing faster than inflation, though for most Americans not by as much as the huge jumps detailed in the report. And the cast of villains is a lot broader than just insurance companies, according to experts. "Over the last year, America's largest insurance ...
The Health Care Divide: Dems That Have, and Dems That Don't
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere's a civil war going on among Democrats in the so-called heartland. Here in the Midwest, Democrats agree on most things. We were thrilled to usher in the first African-American president. We are largely pro-choice, we're OK with gay marriage, and we hate Rush Limbaugh with the passion of 10,000 suns. But when it comes to the health care reform bills working their way through Congress, Democrats fall into two distinct camps. ...
Opinion: Health Care Reform's Lowered Expectations
By not in system - AOL NewsPerhaps it's a sign of how far health care reform has drifted off course. Or of how worried Democrats are about getting health care reform passed. How else to explain the Senate leadership's joyful response to a Congressional Budget Office report that finds that their reform plan will do little to lower insurance costs for millions of Americans, will raise premiums for millions more, and will cut costs for others only through heavy government subsidies? That's not exactly what the public was promised when the health care reform train got rolling. Consider: When President Barack Obama was ...
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