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HR 676, Letter to the Cumberland Times

Wed, 12/10/2008 - 10:44pm — DCblogger

Country must address health care for all people

To the Editor:
Cumberland Times-News

Editor’s note: This letter to Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) was released to the Times-News for publication.

Dear Congressman Mollohan:

Now that Democrats control Congress, the time is ripe to rally support for HR 676, the Conyers Medicare For All Bill. You have free health care of the highest quality, but your constituents face a failed, fragmented, irrational, cruel, wasteful, and costly health care system — something doctors and health care professionals have been saying for years.

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NYState average wages up 11%-health insurance up 81% since

By jawbone on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 11:07am

20002 (pretty sure it was '02, not 2000) . Explanation of why more people have lost health insurance through employers, but individual plan sales have dropped. Well, d'uh--it's the cost, stupid.

On WNYC discussion of what Obama may say about his healthcare plan and alternatives to individual plans: NY has a state-assisted plan for people in the entertainment fields; those with independent contractor status can get more affordable plans; and one guy said there was a better cost through a sole-proprietor group. Community Service Society rep was on.

Second segment. Audio will be up later today. Other good segments.

(T/U. Lambert, for the link button!!!)

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