Roger Hickey
| Hometown: | Washington, DC |
| Interests: | An Economy for All, Health Care for All, New Energy, Quality Education, Real Security, Social Security, The Big Con, Take Back America, Invest In America, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy |
| Honors: | 5 |
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- July 7, 2008 - 10:38am
On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed campaign, led by 100 national and local organizations.
- Published The McCain Health Plan: Millions Lose Coverage, Health Costs Worsen, and Insurance and Drug Industries Win (Blog entry)April 29, 2008 - 9:24am
Sen. John McCain's health care plan is a dangerous fraud. It will dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers about 158 million Americans and will force millions of workers to fend for themselves in a market controlled by unregulated and predatory insurance companies. His plan would drive health care costs upward, not downward.
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• Bernie Horn on "How to Talk About Health Care"
• Facts and analysis of our "Health Care for America" plan - February 17, 2008 - 2:33pm
Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker’s Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group.
- Broadcast Goozner: Unfair and Unbalanced Wonkery on Mandates (Progressive Opinion) | February 3, 2008 - 3:49pm
- November 15, 2007 - 7:15pm
Editor’s Note: “The 2008 election campaign is almost sure to be a health care election — even before we’ve done much organizing at all,” said America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey at a conference sponsored by New Jersey Citizen Action on November 13. “So imagine what will happen once we get going.”
In this keynote speech at the “Conference on Health Care for All: Real Solutions for New Jersey and the Nation” in New Brunswick, N.J., Hickey outlines what he sees as possible.
- October 18, 2007 - 1:26pm
One hundred and fifty-six House Members declared themselves enemies of children and families with this vote.
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- July 7, 2008 - 10:38am
On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed campaign, led by 100 national and local organizations.
- Published The McCain Health Plan: Millions Lose Coverage, Health Costs Worsen, and Insurance and Drug Industries Win (Blog entry)April 29, 2008 - 9:24am
Sen. John McCain's health care plan is a dangerous fraud. It will dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers about 158 million Americans and will force millions of workers to fend for themselves in a market controlled by unregulated and predatory insurance companies. His plan would drive health care costs upward, not downward.
RELATED:
• Bernie Horn on "How to Talk About Health Care"
• Facts and analysis of our "Health Care for America" plan - February 17, 2008 - 2:33pm
Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker’s Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group.
- November 15, 2007 - 7:15pm
Editor’s Note: “The 2008 election campaign is almost sure to be a health care election — even before we’ve done much organizing at all,” said America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey at a conference sponsored by New Jersey Citizen Action on November 13. “So imagine what will happen once we get going.”
In this keynote speech at the “Conference on Health Care for All: Real Solutions for New Jersey and the Nation” in New Brunswick, N.J., Hickey outlines what he sees as possible.
- October 18, 2007 - 1:26pm
One hundred and fifty-six House Members declared themselves enemies of children and families with this vote.
- September 21, 2007 - 3:16pm
The big news from Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Monday health care speech in Iowa is that she is going to make a campaign for health care for all — not just small changes but fundamental reform — a central element of her campaign for the White House.
Before the speech Jonathan Cohn was not the only health care reporter asking the question, “Will she flinch? . . . Would she settle on something less than universal coverage, figuring the political support for it was too weak?” She didn’t. She responded to the American majority clamoring for bold leadership to achieve health care for everyone.
Clinton would achieve universal coverage by offering an array of private insurance plans that meet the standards for benefits and premium costs set by the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program — the quality plan covering members of Congress and other federal workers. And she would also offer a public health care plan similar to Medicare.
All of these plans would be portable through life changes, such as when you leave or lose a job. Employers would be required to provide their employees health insurance or pay into a fund to defray the cost of covering those employees. (Small businesses with fewer than 25 employees would be exempt, while getting tax breaks to encourage them to offer coverage.) All Americans would be able to buy into any one of the available private insurance or public plans — with a graduated system of tax credits designed to make sure that no one pays more than an (unspecified) reasonable percentage of their income on health premiums.
It is no coincidence that the basic elements are similar to those already proposed by her main presidential primary competitors. The “ideas primary” between the candidates has been shaped in part by our unique effort — chronicled in this blog all year — to engage the candidates around Yale Professor Jacob Hacker’s progressive health care plan, “Health Care for America.”
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- Broadcast Goozner: Unfair and Unbalanced Wonkery on Mandates (Progressive Opinion) | February 3, 2008 - 3:49pm
