U.S. Senator Patty Murray and U.S. Representative Jim McDermott will address rallies for health-care reform in Seattle, Saturday, May 30. Organizers predict more than 5,000 people will attend the Health Care for All in 2009 march and rally, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. at Edwin Pratt Park (20th Ave. S & E. Yesler Way) [...]
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and other Democrats have proposed creating a federally backed insurance plan to compete with private insurance plans. Anyone could buy insurance from the public plan and no one could be excluded because of pre-exisiting conditions, proponents say. According to a recent survey by the magazine Consumer Reports, 66 [...]
Health care will be expensive as long as someone else is paying for it, writes Dr. Roger Stark, a health-care policy analyst at the Washington Policy Center, a Seattle-based think tank that promotes market-based solutions. “Only when individuals can direct their own medical spending through a market will costs become transparent and likewise come under [...]
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