Reply #23: The entire sub-thread was deleted that contained the links, it was

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not deleted right away because I am prety sure I posted in the link the next day and maybe even 2 days later.

So what happened???

The name given to the 2007 Hacker plan "Health Care for America."

SEIU, AFSCME endorse the plan (2007) letters are at the link below.

http://www.ourfuture.org/files/documents/evolution-of-the-healthcare-debate.pdf


In 2008 Health Care for America (Now) is formed with millions (40 million) of start up money.

HCAN becomes a dominant voice for health care reform including the current plans, which do not resemble the original plan.


HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICA WOULD SAVE BILLIONS

http://www.sharedprosperity.org/hcfa/news_release.pdf

"...Health Care for America, developed for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) by Yale
political scientist Jacob S. Hacker, would achieve these goals and maximize consumers’
health care choices without unraveling existing health security, forcing individual to
obtain coverage on their own, pressuring patients into health savings accounts or using
inadequate vouchers...

...Health Care for America, a centerpiece of EPI’s Agenda for Shared Prosperity, has
become a template for the health care proposals offered by leading Democratic
candidates for president, built on a foundation of a large national insurance pool and an
employer mandate.

...“Unlike the stale ideas of tax credits and health savings accounts that the ‘You’re On
Your Own’ advocates always push, Health Care for America builds on the strengths we
already have in place through Medicare and our employer-provided system to expand
coverage,” Mishel said. “The plan leverages the power of numbers in a broad national
pool that allows us to reduce costs and expand coverage to virtually everyone in
America.”

The 38 million Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollees would
be folded into the new insurance pool, with current levels of coverage guaranteed..."