AFSCME Members Speak Out
A former small business owner from Maine recalls how insurmountable health insurance costs folded his company and put him and his employees out of their jobs.
Mike Reardon Kittery, ME View videoNews & Happenings
President Barack Obama said Monday that America has no choice but to overhaul the health care system to make insurance cheaper for families, businesses and the government.
Mainers who support President Barack Obama's health care reform plans are hoping to put pressure on Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, to try to get her to change her mind on a public option. The proposal for a government funded program for the uninsured has virtually no Republican support in the U.S. Senate. But both Senators Snowe and Susan Collins are seen as potential swing votes on any health care reform legislation.
CINCINNATI — President Obama delivered a rousing campaign-style pitch on Monday for his proposed health care overhaul, telling thousands of cheering union workers at a Labor Day picnic here that Congress should stop debating because “it’s time to act and get this done.”
The health insurance industry spends $1.4 million a day lobbying Congress to stop health care reform.
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