Health Reform in the House | Fact of the Day The average monthly premium for employer-sponsored family coverage in 2009 was $1,115. Annually, that amounts to $13,375, or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job. (Kaiser Family Foundation) | | Follow Health Insurance Reform
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At the Time This Daily Dose Was Sent, Insured Americans Had Paid a “Hidden Tax” of $51,298,658,266 since January 1, 2009 in Additional Premium Costs to Cover Care for the Uninsured. Under the Microscope HEALTH REFORM BY THE NUMBERS Today the White House launched “Health Reform by the Numbers” which is an online and email campaign using key figures to raise awareness about why we just can’t afford to wait for reform. A new number will be announced each day via an email listserv, and promoted on Whitehouse.gov, as well as social networks, like Facebook and Twitter. Today’s number is $1,115 -- the average monthly premium for employer-sponsored family coverage in 2009. Annually, that number amounts to $13,375, or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job. It gets worse: a recent survey found that if we do nothing, over the next ten years, out-of-pocket expenses for Americans with health insurance could increase 35 percent in every state in the country. Learn what you can do to help spread the word
Health Care Headlines Obama Launches Attack On Health Insurance Companies
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.
[Washington Post, 3/9/2010] Obama Turns Up the Volume in Health Care Bid
President Obama challenged wavering members of his party on Monday not to give in to political fears about supporting health care legislation, asserting that the urgency of getting a bill through Congress should trump any concern about the consequences for Democrats in November.
[New York Times, 3/9/2010] Obama Set to Fight ‘Uphill Battle’ on Health Bill
President Barack Obama this week kicks off a final push to salvage a health-care overhaul plan that faces opposition from the public and resistance from members of his own Democratic Party. [Bloomberg, 3/8/2010] OPINION: Health Reform Passes the Cost Test
By David M. Cutler, Harvard University economics professor
Many people are worried that the health-care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats will fail to bend the "cost curve." [Wall Street Journal, 3/9/2010] OPINION: Can We Please Stop Talking About Reconciliation?
By Stan Collender
My fellow Roll Call columnist Norman Ornstein was one of the authors of a truly excellent chart on reconciliation that appeared in the New York Times on Sunday. [Roll Call, 3/9/2010] OPINION: When 'Reconciliation' Equals Leadership
By Richard Cohen
Googling to my heart's content on a recent eve, I decided to match "health care" with "ram" to see what would happen. [Washington Post, 3/9/2010] OPINION: Why Dems on the Fence Should Support Healthcare Reform
By Peter Fenn
I understand unruly town meetings with the Tea Party anger. I get that legislating a big, complex issue is truly hard. [The Hill, 3/8/2010] | 