ISSUES IN FOCUS
General Health Reform Overview
Senators Speak on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Brown on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Baucus on the Patients' Bill of Rights
- Senator Durbin on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Harkin on Preventive Health Care
- Senator Durbin on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Brown on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Dodd on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Schumer on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Mikulski on Health Insurance Reform
- Senator Bill Nelson on Health Insurance Reform
The Need for Health Reform
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: The Cost of Inaction (State-by-State Fact Sheets) (11/25/09)
- The Need for Health Insurance Reform by the Numbers (6/26/09)
- Health Insurance Reform: The Cost of Doing Nothing (State-by-State Fact Sheets) (6/19/09)
- Health Insurance Reform: The Need for Prevention and Wellness Efforts (6/17/09)
- Health Insurance Reform: The Cost of Inaction (6/9/09)
- Senate Democrats: Committed to Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans (5/21/09)
- Health Reform Required to Address the Health Care Cost Crisis (5/21/09)
- Why We Must Act: Senate Democrats Make the Case for Health Insurance Reform (4/30/09)
Seniors, Medicare and Health Reform
- Senate Democrats Are On Your Side: Committed to Strengthening and Improving Medicare and Medicaid (6/29/10)
- Health Reform Delivers for Seniors (6/10/10)
- Medicare Payment Policies in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2/11/10)
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Creates a Fair Market for Seniors' Business (12/4/09)
- Senate Health Insurance Reform Invests in America's Seniors (9/25/09)
- Senate Health Insurance Reform Strengthens Medicare (9/22/09)
Business, the Economy and Health Reform
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Good for Business, Good for Jobs, and Good for the Economy (12/3/09)
- Senate Health Reform Legislation Helps Small Business (7/29/09)
Republican Opposition to Health Reform
- 'Government Takeover?' Not According to the Health Care Industry (8/3/10)
- The Health Care Republicans Don't Want You to Have (6/29/10)
- Senate Republicans Delay for the Sake of Delaying Health Insurance Reform (2/11/10)
- On Health Insurance Reform, GOP Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer (2/11/10)
- Republicans Defeated the Last Health Reform Effort, and Americans Lost (11/20/09)
- Profits Over People: Republican Health Care Amendments Demonstrate Republican Priorities (10/14/09)
- Can Seniors Trust Republicans to Protect Medicare? (10/5/09)
- Republican Record on Health Care: Higher Costs, More Bankruptcies, Less Coverage (10/1/09)
- Republican 'Status Quo Plan' for Health Reform is Not an Option (7/29/09)
Other Health Reform Reports
- Understanding Health Insurance Reform (12/18/09)
- Reform that Reduces Chronic Disease and Health Care Costs (11/4/09)
- Senate Health Insurance Reform Ends Coverage Discrimination Against Women (9/30/09)
- Senate Health Insurance Reform: Putting People Over Profits (9/29/09)
- Health Reform Must Address Health Disparities (7/30/09)
- Health Care Stability and Security for All Americans (6/26/09)
Archived Materials
The following link provides access to documents that were distributed by DPC earlier in the health care debate.