LINKS AND RESOURCES ON HEALTHCARE REFORM

{A lot to sort through, but well worth a scan if you're researching}

Special thanks to PDLA

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/7929.cfm
New Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows high rate of satisfaction with the "Healthy San Francisco" health plan for the uninsured initiated by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2006. Residents of Los Angeles should be asking our mayor and City Council for this too.
 


Dennis Kucinich on The Ed Show/MSNBC. Says to go back and start over. Go to the people and hear all the stories of abuse by the health insurance corporations. What's wrong with H.R.3200.
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd
Lila Garrett's "Connect the Dots" interview with Kucinich 8-24-09.  And many others on healthcare.
 
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=128056041101
THE KUCINICH AMENDMENT to HR3200---key to whether CA can have SB810.


Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and a longtime foe of for-profit medicine, on why she believes current proposals miss the mark.






CA State Senator Mark Leno on healthcare.  Speech on California single-payer
Washington rally speech

 
LILY TOMLIN as Ernestine working for a health insurance company.
Hysterical and true.  Watch and become an "ad producer" if you are able.
http://www.californiaonecare.org/learn-more/resources/

Don Schroeder's "California OneCare: Full Care, For All, For Less " -- shown at the Universal Single Payer Healthcare Forums organized by Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles (PDLA)
 

BRAVE NEW FILMS new website on healthcare and video on United Healthcare's megabucks man Steve Hemsley


www.pnhp.org  --  Physicians for National Healthcare Program
http://www.calnurses.org/  ---  CNA, California Nurses Association
http://www.healthcareforall.org/  and www.onecarenow.org

 
Also excellent: Public Citizen Health Research Group http://www.citizen.org/hrg/
and   www.singlepayeraction.org

http://www.johnconyers.com/healthcare  everything about HR676


 

F.A.I.R. PETITION to sign:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/592/t/9039/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1993
Tell media to include single-payer healthcare in the debate. Clips of all the corporations being interviewed by ABC using Republican talking points.
 

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL on PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07172009/watch3.html
CIGNA cuts jobs with $4 billion in revenue; CEO gets $11 million but is topped by AETNA's Ron Williamson at $17 million (that's where your insurance premiums go).

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile2.html#stats
Money, Politics, and Health.  A close-up look and links to the money politicians get in contributions.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch.html  Health Care Reform demanded.  Big insurance and big pharma won't allow it.  Rescission by for-profit insurance companies.  $1.4 million a day being spent by insurance industry to kill any public option.  US per capita cost of healthcare $6,567 compared to France at $3,353.  Recent U.S. - France comparison here.

Former CIGNA executive Wendell Potter goes public with "Wall Street run healthcare..."   Testimony before Congress.
 http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html  Moyers interview of Potter, 15-year communications exec who left CIGNA voluntarily. Speaking out when clear that industry is leading effort to kill healthcare plans.  Trip home to TN to Wise County Fairground and saw tents set up and long lines of people to get care.  Involved in discrediting Michael Moore's "Sicko" -- clips shown.  Trade association strategy to use lobbyist and staff to discredit movie and use scare tactics. Luntz script to discredit healthcare reform--talking points come out of Republican senator's mouths.  Industry wants status quo. Doesn't want regulation or any competition.  Wants individual mandate with uninsured enrolled in PRIVATE plan to ensure profitability in future.  Use of front groups and third parties to demean and scare people ... Medicare satisfaction is higher than in private insurance and it's government run.
 
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06122009/profile.html  Robert Reich on influence of lobbyists on health care; LINK to Kaiser Family Foundation research (comparisons; Obama positions)
 
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/profile2.html  Whence Single Payer? Dr. David Himmelstein (Harvard, founder pnhp.org) and Dr. Sidney Wolfe (Public Citizen) clearly explain single payer and argue that it would pay for itself in administrative savings.


LINK to "Sick Around the World" to see how 5 other countries provide health care.

ARTICLES:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/another_story_from_the_uk.php#more?ref=fpblg
American's newborn cared for by the UK healthcare system.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/1572/
Blue Dogs fill cash bowl--become lap dogs for insurance and healthcare industries as Americans demand SINGLE PAYER.

http://www.truthout.org/072009U?n
Obamacare at war with itself as industry giveaways mount and corporations have their way again. Or maybe not.
Is it too much to ask that our corporate-funded politicians do something for the people for a change?

 
http://weiner.house.gov/tv.aspx?p=107
Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY9), taking the progressive lead on healthcare reform, blasts critics of health reform on floor of Congress.

 
http://www.openleft.com/diary/14271/a-village-fairy-tale-coming-from-a-progun-state-means-a-democrat-must-oppose-health-care-reform
Blue Dogs--one of whom is D-Mike Ross (AK) where BLUE CROSS has a 75% monopoly:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/July/21/ross.aspx
 
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/19/us/politics/20090717_HEALTH_TIMELINE.html
History of Health Care Reform--interactive timeline with links to past articles. Begins in 1912 with Teddy Roosevelt's campaign on the Progressive Party and call for national health insurance like Germany.

 
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/20-11
Canadian Health Care: Reality check on reality check--investigation of the case behind the propaganda from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell fed through CNN
 
http://www.sacbee.com/business/story/2029758.html
More than 330,000 people are expected to lose coverage in California.  Steep rise in insurance premiums forcing more and more into the ranks of the uninsured raising question of why we can't adopt single-payer plans that have been successful in all the European countries and Canada.

 
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44555
Will Congress ban states from having their own healthcare plans?

 
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/july_aug_09_lerner_healthcare
SCROLL DOWN on this one.  Explores reasons why left is losing single payer.

 
http://www.prwatch.org/node/8441
Obama's False Friends of Health Reform -- Wendell Potter (former CIGNA exec)
 
http://www.prwatch.org/node/8422 Health Care Industry vs Health Reform--insider speaks out
 



http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/howard-dean-interview-health-care-070709
Howard Dean: Private Health Care is Breaking our Economy
 

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/centrists-threaten-agenda-2009-07-06.html
Blue Dog Democrats receiving big contributions from the insurance companies won't support even a public option. It's the usual set, led by Lieberman/Nelson/Landrieu.
 
http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/06/15/single-payer-would-save-santa-monica-6-million/
Analysis shows Santa Monica would save $6 million with SINGLE PAYER healthcare (of course our Congress hasn't ASKED for a budget analysis of it on a national level.


  
ttp://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2009-07-03-11-51-45-news.php  TRICARE Defense Dept's SINGLE PAYER health care for 9.2 active-duty military and retirees--and it works!  Check it out at http://www.tricare.mil/Transparency/
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/business/01meddebt.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=all
Insured but still bankrupted by fine print exclusions in Aetna insurance policy
 

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/la-fi-rescind17-2009jun17,0,6622254.story
Insurers put on black hat and take off the gloves with politicians--REFUSE to limit rescissions of coverage for sick
 
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=debating_the_public_option
Robert Reich, Robert Kuttneer, Paul Starr discuss perils and warn that a public-insurance option could turn into exactly the opposite of what progressives want
 


http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/140990/hey_progressives_stop_fighting_each_other_and_fight_the_health_insurance_industry_instead!/?page=entire
 

http://www.slate.com/id/2220534/  The Isolationism of Health Reform -- discusses the different models of single payer in other countries
 
http://www.slate.com/id/2220222/  Health Care Reform: An Online Guide
 

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22155.html   FRANK LUNTZ warns GOP (article on framing arguments)
Here's the entire 28 page memo at this link:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/ 05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdf

 
http://www.slate.com/id/2220597/
Will Seniors Kill Health Reform -- points out they're on Medicare already and don't really NEED reform because gov is already paying their bills
 
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_devil_is_in_the_health_care_reform_details
Robert Kuttner on power of insurance companies controlling outcome
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060504036_pf.html   KENNEDY PLAN

 
http://pdamerica.org/articles/chapters/ma-2009-07-03-10-32-16-chapters.php
MA "Commonweath Plan" cuts 12% while unemployed who have lost employer benefits join state program

http://www.commondreams.org/print/38388   MASSACHUSETTS MODEL
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/politics/07policy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th OBAMA TO TAKE GREATER ROLE
 
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082380   WHY we won't get the health care system we deserve/Harper's Magazine
 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/08
Published on Monday, June 8, 2009 by USA Today 
Lobbyists Unlimited in Honoring Lawmakers--money skirting contribution limits and going into institutions
 
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/healthreform_sbs_full.pdf  Side-by-side comparisons of health care proposals in Congress (none address single payer); mandated insurance
 

http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/Obama_Campaign_Position_on_Health_Care.pdf
What Candidate Obama's positions were.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/health/policy/08health.html  Health Deals Could Harbor Hidden Costs -- Congress doesn't know details of deals cut by Obama Admin with industry behind closed doors
 


http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html
NY Times summary of their articles on health care reform
 

http://www.mikemalloy.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=63680
Health Care Reform's Axis of Evil -- blog entries -- one on MA mandated program and effects
 


TRACKING LOBBYIST MONEY

Why public option could emerge a profit-driven corporate business plan....
 http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/health%20care
 

CAPITOL EYE BLOG
http://www.opensecrets.org/
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/06/diagnosis-reform.html
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/07/live-web-chat-at-12-pm-wednesd.html
 



Diagnosis: Reform (OpenSecrets.org)
Published by Lindsay Renick Mayer & Michael Beckel & Aaron Kiersh on June 17, 2009 5:18 PM

For some individuals, how Congress aims to reform America's health care system is literally a matter of life and death. For some industries, it could mean the difference between weathering the economic storm or shuttering their businesses. Nobody knows yet what the shape or scope of the final bill will be. It may not even make it to President Obama's desk. But one thing is certain: The American health care system is set to get a lobotomy and diverse special interests are spending big bucks to make sure they're in the surgery room when it happens.

[Download a list of contributions from the health sector to all current members of Congress (including to their candidate committees and leadership PACs) since 1989.]



HELP Committee Members Opposing Health Bill Backed By Insurers, Pharma
Published by Lindsay Renick Mayer on July 15, 2009 3:51 PM

Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who opposed a version of health care reform that the panel passed today, have on average received more money from the industries fighting against the measure's public health plan component than those who voted "yes."
Here's what we found.



Revolving Door: Top Congressional Committees
The bulk of the work that gets done in Congress can be traced back to the various committees, where members and staffers develop specialized expertise in the policy areas of education, science, the federal budget and agriculture and a host of other topics. This expertise, in addition to the committee connections they bring with them, makes these employees prime picking for lobbying firms, whose clients are seeking to shape policies that affect their industry. The most powerful committees, such as Energy & Commerce, Appropriations and Ways & Means are of special interest to lobbying firms. The committees listed here are the current record-holders for staffers-turned-lobbyists or lobbyists-turned-staffers, including former staff directors, chief counsels and aides.

HOUSE Committees

Committee    Number of revolving door people profiled
Energy & Commerce    136
Ways & Means    88
Appropriations    87
Budget    64
Government Reform    58
Science    57
Education & the Workforce    54
Transportation & Infrastructure    53
Judiciary    50
Agriculture    50
Armed Services    45
Small Business    44
International Relations    37
Financial Services    29
Permanent Select on Intelligence    26
Rules    26
Veterans' Affairs    24
Administration    23
Resources    16
Standards of Official Conduct    15

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