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Posts Tagged ‘schakowsky’

  • Morning Bell: The Unprincipled Fight for Government-Run Health Care

    Posted May 1st, 2009 at 9:18am in Health Care 36

    Last year, then-candidate Barack Obama told a rally in Albuquerque, “If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.” Earlier this month in Chicago, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) told a rally of government-run health care supporters: “I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so [...] More

  • Single Payer 101: “Everybody In, Nobody Out”

    Posted April 28th, 2009 at 10:30am in Health Care 31

    There is often a lot of talk in America about ’single payer health care systems’ but what does that really means? To put it simply, a single payer health care system is one in which the federal government is the only ‘payer’ to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers with no existing private insurance [...] More