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Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America's Affordable Health Choices Act, including the thoroughly debunked myth that the House bill will provide taxpayer-financed health coverage for undocumented immigrants. The facts disprove their politically divisive distortions and, in… Continue

Opponents of health insurance reform and some members of the news media continue to repeat a myth that the public health insurance option will cost $1 trillion. In fact, the public option in America's Affordable Health Choices Act will cost U.S. taxpayers… Continue

Tonight, President Obama made a forceful case to the Congress and the country for long-overdue health insurance reform. We are closer than ever before in history to real progress on this issue that touches the lives of every American and impacts our… Continue

Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America's Affordable Health Choices Act. Republicans, in particular, are showing a recent convert's zeal for reducing the deficit by claiming we cannot afford health insurance reform now because of the size of the… Continue

Rising health costs are hitting seniors' wallets–with the average Medicare Part D plus Part B premium consuming an estimated 12% of the average Social Security benefit in 2010–and 16% by 2025. Medicare, the government program that provides health care for Americans age… Continue

Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America's Affordable Health Choices Act. Their efforts to scare seniors have spared no myth, no method and no misrepresentation. It has gotten so bad, the Chicago Tribune's The Swamp blog wrote,… Continue

Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs. If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be a major victory for the health insurance industry. President Obama has said that… Continue

Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America's Affordable Health Choices Act. This time they are claiming the bill is a risk to the privacy of Americans' personal health and financial information. The facts disprove their distortions. Myth… Continue

Today, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent the following letter to President Obama inviting him to address a Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday, September 9, 2009: September 2, 2009 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, D.C. 20500… Continue

Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America's Affordable Health Choices Act. Yesterday, House Republican Leader Boehner issued a “GOP Leader Alert” claiming that the House Democrats' reform bill is “loaded up with special-interest giveaways” — designed to… Continue