Healthcare
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…
Over the course his town hall meeting last evening, Congressman James Langevin expressed support for healthcare reform goals that would contain costs, expand coverage to the uninsured and prevent monopoly-like behavior from insurance companies. I didn’t get any sense from the Congressman’s responses that any of these goals were most or least important. But given…
The most surprising thing I learned over the course of last night’s town hall meeting with Congressman James Langevin was of the Congressman’s strong commitment to maintaining the employer-based system as the basis of American health insurance. I had thought that most current support for the employer-based system (outside of the insurance industry) sprang from…
Monique and Matt hit on various topics related to healthcare and last night’s town hall on the Matt Allen Show. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Thanks to Andrew, the two of us were able to sneak through the media entrance to Congressman Jim Langevin’s town hall meeting at the Warwick city hall.and to sit in on the private media Q&A. Andrew even got in a question (that wasn’t directly answered. Me, I was takinbg video. The place is packed, probably…