Author: Roger Hickey

Today Arizona Sen. John McCain will deliver what his handlers are hyping as a major address on health care. McCain’s plan is a dangerous fraud. He wants voters to think he is going after health care cost inflation. In reality, he wants to dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers over 60 percent (or about…

Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker’s Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group. As you can read in the EPI press release, Lewin found that HCFA would cover everyone in America, while saving the U.S. economy over a trillion…

Editor’s Note: “The 2008 election campaign is almost sure to be a health care election — even before we’ve done much organizing at all,” said America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey at a conference sponsored by New Jersey Citizen Action on November 13. “So imagine what will happen once we get going.” In this keynote speech…

One hundred and fifty-six House Members declared themselves enemies of children and families with this vote. Ignoring the will of the people, a conservative minority in the House sustained the president\’s veto and denied nearly 5 million children access to health insurance. Upholding the president\’s veto is only the latest obstruction to progress by Washington…

The big news from Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Monday health care speech in Iowa is that she is going to make a campaign for health care for all — not just small changes but fundamental reform — a central element of her campaign for the White House. Before the speech Jonathan Cohn was not the only…

Americans want big changes in our heath care system. And now Michael Moore's great new film, \”SiCKO,\” is helping to turn a desire for change into a crusade for change. Now breaking box office records in its second week in theaters, \”SiCKO\” conveys powerfully emotional stories of Americans trapped in a system controlled by insurance…

The following is a part of the TPMCafe Book Club group discussion of the new book \”Sick: The Untold Story of America\’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price\” by Jonathan Cohn Several participants have rightly insisted on focusing us on a large order question: what kinds of fundamental reforms are…

The following is a part of this week\’s TPMCafe Book Club group discussion of the new book \”Sick: The Untold Story of America\’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price\” by Jonathan Cohn Kudos to Jonathan for his important new book. One of the reasons we are talking about what\’s the…

The following post is a part of this week\’s TPMCafe Book Club group discussion of the new book \”Sick: The Untold Story of America\’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price\” by Jonathan Cohn. Kudos to Jonathan Cohn for his important new book. One of the reasons we are talking about…

The following post is a part of this week\’s TPMCafe Book Club group discussion of the new book \”Sick: The Untold Story of America\’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price\” by Jonathan Cohn. Kudos to Jonathan Cohn for his important new book. One of the reasons we are talking about…