Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2009.  With intense debate and activism at town hall meetings across the nation last month, Americans’ confidence in their health insurance coverage and ability to access to health care dropped slightly in August. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) fell 1.1[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Blame it on a tweet. It turns out that’s what kicked off the right-wing blogosphere’s comically inept misinformation campaign last weekend to try to swell the size of Saturday’s anti-Obama protest in the nation’s capital, to jack the crowd size up to the wildly inflated —[Read More…]

Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2009.  A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) study published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine shows that a majority of physicians (63 percent) support a health reform proposal that includes both a public option and traditional private insurance. If the additional 10 percent of doctors who[Read More…]

Minneapolis, Minnesota—(ENEWSPF)—September 12, 2009 – 1:00 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, Minnesota!  (Applause.)  Hello, Minneapolis!  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  Are you fired up?  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  AUDIENCE:  Yes we can!  Yes we can!  Yes we can!  (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Thank you,[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2009.  The following is the text of a letter sent by Governor Quinn to the Illinois Congressional Delegation voicing his support for President Obama’s health care reform proposal. September 10, 2009 Dear Member of the Illinois Congressional Delegation: In his speech before a joint session of Congress, President[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– "It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government." – President Barack Obama If You Have Health Insurance More[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2009.  SEIU President Andy Stern released the following statement after President Obama’s address to the Joint Session of Congress tonight. “Everybody knows someone that is at the mercy of America’s broken healthcare system. “Someone like Pat Dejong from Libby, Montana, who lost her family home after her[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2009 – 10:29 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  All righty.  Hey, guys.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you so much.  It is good to be with all of you — please sit down, everybody.  (Laughter.)  It is just great to be with nurses again.  It is[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2009.  Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. made this statement following President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress about health insurance reform: “President Obama delivered tonight a strong, powerful and poignant message to Congress and the American people.  He made crystal clear that now is[Read More…]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington, D.C.– Below is the full text of President Obama’s address on health care to the Joint Session of Congress: *** Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last[Read More…]