Healthcare
The reader really must sympathize with Froma Harrop’s frustration and ire, and I’m truly sorry for the loss of her husband. The conclusions to which she comes, from that point of view, are, however, plain wishful thinking based on an idealization of an alternative straw to grasp: An economic note: In 2006, William “Dollar Bill”…
UPDATE: The video below is now complete; I’ve also managed to take some of the echo out of the audio, so it might be a little easier to understand what people are saying. Given that Andrew and I attended a separate press session before Congressman Jim Langevin’s town hall meeting in Warwick, tonight, and that…
Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse appeared on this week’s Newsmakers program on WPRI-TV (CBS 12), offering substantive answers to some very good questions on healthcare reform asked by panelists Tim White, Arlene Violet and Ian Donnis. On at least one issue, however, the issue of how illegal immigrants are being addressed in the proposals…
Since she began targeting a national audience, losing the local flavor, reading Froma Harrop has become a chore that I’m less and less inclined to undertake, but she does still have a knack for highlighting the errors in the thoughts that she’s repeating, as is the case here: Reforming health care should be both a…
UPDATE: The collection of video clips (below) from this event is complete. Thursday night’s community dinner with Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse did indeed have its drama. It also had moments of should-have-been-revelation that we’ll be exploring in the days to come. In the meantime, I’m collecting the raw video in the extended entry…
Commenter “Mario” offers some substantive numbers on the number of people without health insurance at any one time in the US…The CBO helpfully laid out the characteristics of the uninsured population in a paper last December (pg. 38). CBO projects that among the uninsured in 2009, 17 percent will have family income above 300 percent…
Thanks to Andrew’s emailwork with Sheldon Whitehouse staffers and Tim White’s willingness to open the door for a loitering blogger, I’ve gained entrance to Senators’ Whitehouse and Reed’s healthcare dinner. I had my PB&J sandwich in the van on the way down, so I’ve got a moment to chat with you. Congressman Jim Langevin’s staffers…
Two questions of fact regarding healthcare in America, where consensus on all sides does not exist, came up during last night’s town hall meeting with Congressman James Langevin…What is the count of uninsured people in America, major points of contention being…How many of the oft-quoted figure of 47 million unisured includes people who change jobs…
When the Pawtucket Times’ Jim Baron lobbed Congressman Langevin the “death panel” volley ball to smack down during the pre-town hall presser, it occurred to me that if (and I repeat: if) some monstrosity of a socializing healthcare bill becomes law, at least some of the blame with fall to Sarah Palin. When she initially…
At least twice during Congressman James Langevin’s town hall meeting last evening, the idea was brought up that a “public option”, i.e. a government created and run insurance company, needs to be included in any health reform proposal, as a safety valve for people who lose their jobs (in an employer-based system) and still need…
