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Divided We Fail was launched to raise the voices of millions of Americans who believe that health care and life-time financial security are the most pressing domestic issues facing our nation.
 
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Divided We Fail The Senate is working on their version of health care reform. 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.
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Divided We Fail 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.
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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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www.nytimes.com
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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www.kaiserhealthnews.org
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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Divided We Fail 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.php?storyId=113557622

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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.
Jackie Rowe
Jackie Rowe
Let's get some basic health care coverage for everyone, including dental, vision and hearing---and then we can ALSO tackle the education aspects of health care. Like, how to feel better by taking better care of yourself. And how not to commit suicide, albeit slowly.
October 10, 2009 at 9:54pm
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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.
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Divided We Fail Business Roundtable Report Highlight's Cost of Doing Nothing to Reform Health Care

Byron
Byron
Just read this quote from the Ezra Klein article and ask yourself, who is going to lose if we have expanded government health care. Who?

"If the public plan were open to all Americans and partnered with Medicare, it could negotiate deep discounts with health-care providers. The Lewin Group, a health industry consultancy firm, and the Commonwealth Fund, a liberal-leaning health-care advocacy organization, have both estimated that this sort of plan could save the average American 20 to 30 percent on premiums.

Of course, providers don't much like the sound of that because they would see 20 to 30 percent less revenue. And insurers don't much like the sound of that because they could not compete with that sort of buying power. Republicans and centrist Democrats have banded together to weaken the public plan and maybe even remove it altogether."... See More

Something that covers us AND saves money is being opposed by our reps???
September 27, 2009 at 7:04pm
Joanne
Joanne
Divided we fail means that if we are divided on healthcare reform, we will continue to have companies profit on people getting sick!!!!!
October 1, 2009 at 5:52pm
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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.
Michael Giffin
Michael Giffin
That's probably best. Hypocrisy is like a double-bit axe. It cuts both ways and makes a lot of people uncomfortable. When I point out the hypocrisy of my friends on the right, they take offense also. But hypocrisy knows no ideology. It's rampant on both sides. I was merely pointing out that this is not the first president to be savaged, and he won't be the last.
September 23, 2009 at 5:09pm
John
John
People, where are we ? 15 people like this. stick a fork in me i'm done, nobody's home, sorry we're busy induldging our selfeves. damn face book needs spell check
October 5, 2009 at 12:00pm
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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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www.newsweek.com
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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www.statesman.com
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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www.nytimes.com
People are rightly concerned about health care costs, experts say, but some fears are off base.