Health Care

Missing from Healthcare Bills: Coverage for Reproductive Health Missing from Healthcare Bills: Coverage for Reproductive Health

Health reform promises support for comprehensive care. That promise plainly does not extend to women who depend on public funds and seek abortions.

Sep 25, 2009 / Sylvia Law

Lowballing Health Reform Lowballing Health Reform

Progressives need to be as concerned about insurance coverage affordability as we are about a public option.

Sep 23, 2009 / J. Lester Feder

Obama Is Fired Up About Healthcare Obama Is Fired Up About Healthcare

The Nation's Ari Melber on Obama's speech to the AFL-CIO which seemed to inspire the president's populist side and showed an eagerness to engage with the public.

Sep 17, 2009 / MSNBC

Five Ways to Show Support for Healthcare Reform Five Ways to Show Support for Healthcare Reform

Young activists accelerate their campaigns to demand healthcare.

Sep 15, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation

President Obama: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’ President Obama: ‘The Time for Action Is Now’

President Obama invokes history and offers a robust vision of progressive governance (if not the public option) in his major address to Congress on healthcare.

Sep 10, 2009 / C-SPAN

Obama’s Health Speech and the Big Sleazy Obama’s Health Speech and the Big Sleazy

The Nation's Chris Hayes looks back on the impact of right-wing 'death panel' attacks of August and sounds an optimistic note about the future.

Sep 10, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show

Obama Shows His Progressive Spine Obama Shows His Progressive Spine

The president's healthcare speech was not a full-fledged antidote to decades of Reaganism. But it was an eloquent call for a new progressive role for government. We must build on i...

Sep 10, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Method to Their Madness A Method to Their Madness

It takes considerable skill to convince people that something that is clearly good for them--like universal healthcare--is not.

Sep 9, 2009 / Column / Gary Younge

Who Will Obama’s Health Speech Target? Who Will Obama’s Health Speech Target?

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, talks about Obama, healthcare reform and the coming anniversary of the economic collapse.

Sep 9, 2009 / MSNBC

Robert Reich Explains the Public Option Robert Reich Explains the Public Option

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, explains how the public healthcare option would work.

Sep 8, 2009 / YouTube

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