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The Senate
will start work on a final health care reform bill as soon as Monday.
This is a critical time and we can't afford to let negotiations break
down because of political infighting. Will you take a minute to send
your senators a message and let them know you're counting on them to
work together until they've passed reform?
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The Senate Finance Committee just passed a health care reform bill! But it's at this stage – when the full Senate needs to put the different proposals together – that negotiations can easily break down.
Divided We Fail Click on this link to remind your senators to stay committed to working together to pass meaningful health care reform.
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The Senate Finance Committee just passed a health care reform bill! But it's at this stage – when the full Senate needs to put the different proposals together – that negotiations can easily break down.
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With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama's goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.
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There is no question that the bill is headed to the Senate floor, but many details bear watching before the vote.
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http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/
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The Senate Finance Committee will meet Oct. 13 to consider the panel's health care overhaul plan, chairman Max Baucus announced today.Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released ananalysisof ...
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Healthy Behaviors has been a hot topic in Divided We Fail’s recent discussion threads on healthy care reform. This PBS story highlights proposals to include healthy behaviors in reform proposals and the challenges faced by lawmakers as they craft legislation. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story
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Lawmakers seem eager to encourage employers to create and expand programs that tie a portion of workers' health insurance premiums to their willingness to change unhealthy behaviors. But critics say lowering premiums for healthy workers inevitably means raising them for the unhealthy.
Divided We Fail Take it from us, a coalition of labor interests, businesses small and large, and advocates for older Americans: the American people want health care reform.
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Watching the news, we're constantly hearing that health care reform could collapse at any moment, another victim of Washington's game of politics as usual.
Divided We Fail Business Roundtable Report Highlight's Cost of Doing Nothing to Reform Health Care
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Divided We Fail Thoughtful and provocative take on the rising cost of heath care from the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, well worth a read.
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The most important health-care document released this week was not Sen. Max Baucus's Healthy Future Act. It was the Kaiser Family Foundation's 2009 Employer Benefits Survey.
Divided We Fail Over the past month, we've seen all sorts of rumors thrown out about what health care reform will do. If we've learned anything, it's that opponents of reform will stop at nothing to stop Congress from passing legislation. That's why we need to change the subject back to real stories from real people – like Sherri B. of Boca Raton, FL – to show why we can't afford to let reform fail.
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Click on this link to read Sherri's story and send a message to Congress.
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For many, it's only after a medical problem occurs that they discover the coverage gaps and other limitations in their insurance can turn sickness into financial calamity.
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To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Costs for employer-provided health plans are expected to rise more than 10 percent within the next 12 months, a jump workers may feel in their paychecks or through changes to their insurance coverage.
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People are rightly concerned about health care costs, experts say, but some fears are off base.
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Who Are The Uninsured?
Contrary to popular belief, most of the uninsured are working families. They tend to be poorer and in worse health than those with insurance, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
"About 70 percent are from families with one or more full-time workers," Kaiser says in a report on the uninsured issued late last year.
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More than two-thirds of uninsured people in the United States are from families with one or more full-time workers. And the number of uninsured could be even higher, because the estimate was made before the recession.
