Taking Health Care Courtship Up Another Notch

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

White House officials say they have begun an aggressive campaign to line up votes for a health care bill.

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Universal health care is still an LGBT issue

The following has been clipped from The Bilerico Project Report dated 19 September 2009.

I have barely posted anything about health care now that the "debate" (if you will) is in full-swing all over the country. It's partly because I figure that an issue that's being covered everywhere doesn't need any help from me now, but also because all the news has been so damn depressing on this front. The bill keeps on getting compromised, so much so that the bill that just came out of the Senate Finance Committee is just one big love letter to the insurance industry. So I'm just waiting to see what actually passes, if the CPC holds the caucus line, what happens to the bill in conference, and if Obama's technocratic claim to support "what works" actually means anything.

But it's still the big LGBT issue. Tammy Baldwin explains how:

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The Morality of Health Care Reform: Competing Voices

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The following has been clipped from The Bilerico Project Report posted 14 September 2009.

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During Take Back America 2008, I spent part of a day running around with a camera and a microphone asking people which issue was most important to them in the upcoming election. Just when I thought I was done, the camera turned to me and I was faced with the same question.

My answer came quickly and easily: health care reform. When I explained why, the argument that came out of my mouth was based more in morality than economics.

“In a country as wealthy as this one,” I said, “It’s criminal that a single child lacks coverage and does without health care.” I was thinking of my own two kids -- particularly Dylan, who was less than a year old, and had regular well-baby checkups. But I was also thinking about children like Deamonte Driver, whose death from complications due to lack of access to dental care and a resulting abscessed tooth made headlines a couple of years ago.

It wasn’t because the cost of providing coverage and care to children was less than the cost of not doing so. (Though an $80 tooth extraction would have spared Deamonte the need for brain surgery and $250,000 worth of medical care because of the spreading infection.) It was because of a core belief that, as a country, we have moral imperative to make sure everyone has access to quality health care.

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Obama Keeps Up Health Care Push, Citing Uninsured

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The following has been clipped from The New York Times dated 09 September 2009:
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NEWS ANALYSIS; Despite Fears, Health Care Overhaul Is Moving Ahead (September 9, 2009 http://.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/health/policy/09assess.html?fta=y

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