Healthcare USA: Options: A bibliography of selected recent articles reflecting divergent worldviews on healthcare

Google Search ... for term "health care" (Aug21,2k9)

Healthcare co-ops emerging as viable alternative (LA Times, Aug20,2k9)

[Alabama Republican Senator, Richard] Shelby: Insurance co-ops worth looking at (Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette, SC; Aug20,2k9)

Cooperatives, rural economy, rural transit (Cooperatae and No One Gets Hurt blog, Aug202k9)

Bipartisan health talks to continue by phone (AP via WORLD magazine, Aug19,2k9)

Time to give up the public option [for healthcare] (Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, Aug18,2k9)

Allow states to adopt single payer healthcare, not just weak 'co-ops (Examiner, Aug18,2k9)

Health co-ops have checkered history (Charles Babbington, AP via Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette, SC; Aug17,2k9)

Public or co-op? Comparing healthcare options -- Co-op Proponents Cite Cost Savings; Public Option Supporters Argue Co-ops Can't Compete with Private Insurance (Nancy Cordes, CBS Evening News, Aug17,2k9)

Health debate fails to ignite Obama's grassroots (Jake Zeleny, NYT, Aug17,2k9))

Beliefs -- In debate over health policy, some words are seldom spoken (NYT, Aug16,2k9)

Co-op solution (The Young Turks, Aug16,2k9)

Obama to Call Faith Leaders on Healthcare (Sarah Pulliam, Christianity Today, Aug10,2k9)

Obama: Canadian Health Care Won't Work for America President Obama defended Canada's health care system on Monday, saying the northern neighbor is often used as a "bogeyman" for the debate on reform in America. However, he said he is not looking to duplicate the Canadian model at home. (FoxNews.com, Aug10,2k9)

The Truth about Obama's healtcare plan (Peter Ferrara, FoxNews.com, Aug7,2k9)

Debate over Obama healthcare plan turns rancorous
(Aug6,2k9)

Drudge, Fox Nation mischaracterize Obama remarks as supporting end to private health insurance (Media Matters, Aug3,2k9)

On August 3, the Drudge Report and the Fox Nation linked to a YouTube video with the headlines, "Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will 'Eliminate' Private Insurance" and "2007 Video! Did Obama Say He Wants to Kill Private Insurance?," respectively. However, the video clip cropped Obama's comments and mischaracterized them: Obama was not discussing the elimination of private insurance, but rather how health insurance could transition from a system of primarily "employer coverage" to a "much more portable system."

[Sen] Conrad co-opts healthcare(Lewis McCrary, American Conservative, Jun17,2k9)

Palin-Gingrich 'death panel' charge becomes grist for Dems (George's Bottom Line [George Stephanopoulous blog] Aug12,2k9)

Obama's Health Care Push Faces Citizens' Mounting Concern Over Deficit -- Across the Country, People Are Wondering How to Pay for New Reform (Jake Tapper and Huma Khan, ABC News, Aug12,2k9)

Behold, a national and rational conversation on healthcare (Steven Pearlstein, WaPo, Aug11,2k9)

Britain oppposes creation of global mutual insurance fund (Airline Industry Info, Aug3,2k9)

AFL-CIO healthcare position: What's wrong withy Amertica's healthcare? (no date on this secularist union webpage). This approach is featured in this blog-entry's title link.

-- EconoMix

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