by Roger Hickey | Aug 31, 2009 | Blog
Let’s get a few things straight: Until last year, Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s health care bill (co-authored with with Rep. John Dingell) was a bill known as Medicare for All. Not expensive private insurance for some, but Medicare [a...
by Roger Hickey | Jul 13, 2009 | Blog
Americans are demanding health care reform that guarantees them quality, affordable insurance, reduces the burden of health costs on employers and individuals and provides backup coverage through a public health insurance option. But the suggestion that we pay for...
by Roger Hickey | May 18, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
I pledge that soon I will buy a new, fuel-efficient car—built in America by United Auto Workers members. I'm asking YOU to take this pledge with me and get others to do so, too. If enough Americans take this pledge—and pass it on—we can revive our country's auto and...
by Roger Hickey | Apr 8, 2009 | Blog
Jacob Hacker’s 2006 book, The Great Risk Shift, helped politicians understand the economic pressures on the average family — including the rising costs and increasing loss of health insurance — or the threat. And in his Health Care for America plan for health reform,...
by Roger Hickey | Mar 8, 2009 | Blog
Like most participants in President Obama’s Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our...
