The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America are running a new television commercial in Maine and Washington, DC, urging Senator Olympia Snowe to support a public health insurance option. The ad features a woman who thought her family had good health insurance until her husband got cancer, and medical bills not covered by the insurance company forced them into bankruptcy. Watch it: Donate to DFA or the PCCC here to keep this ad on the air. I don't put high o

The study results are in. And things are not looking good for the estimated 46 million people who find themselves uninsured in America. The study conducted by Harvard researchers found that the uninsured have a 40% higher risk of death than those who have private health insurance. This is significant increase from the 25% risk of death for the uninsured, determined in a similar study done 16 years ago in 1993. In a developed nation that is a leader in medical and technological advances--how

The study results are in. And things are not looking good for the estimated 46 million people who find themselves uninsured in America. The study conducted by Harvard researchers found that the uninsured have a 40% higher risk of death than those who have private health insurance. This is significant increase from the 25% risk of death for the uninsured, determined in a similar study done 16 years ago in 1993. In a developed nation that is a leader in medical and technological advances--how

Senator Jay Rockefeller was excluded from the bipartisan group of Finance Committee members who worked on the bill Chairman Max Baucus unveiled on Wednesday, so he spent part of his summer vacation researching the fake public option favored by some gang of six members. He reported on his findings in an open letter to Baucus and ranking member Chuck Grassley . You should click through and read Rockefeller's whole letter , but here are some excerpts: First, there has been no significant re

In his latest e-mail blast to constituents, Senator Tom Harkin touches on his priorities as the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. One point he mentioned hasn't been on my radar screen this year: The full agenda of the Committee will focus on reforming federal student loan programs so that we can stop subsidizing private banks and instead focus on loans that the federal government can make more cheaply. We can save $87 billion over 10 years in that