The New Health Dialogue

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released an analysis of the Obama health plan suggesting it would eliminate two-thirds of the uninsured at a cost of $75 billion a year.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) today released a health reform blueprint that would aspire to provide meaningful and affordable coverage to all Americans. The 98-page document—released just eight days after the election—provides further evidence of a growing coalition in Congress eager to tackle health reform in the coming year.

At this point, every American knows that there are millions among us who do not have health insurance. Sometimes, we talk to each other about what this means - the neighbor who puts off her mammogram because she can't afford it, the uncle who keeps not going to the dentist despite increasing pain, the eight- or nine-hour wait we had at the local emergency room that was overflowing with people who don't have access to preventative care.

Arizona's Proposition 101—which would have precluded the state from enacting universal coverage (you know, just in case...)—appears headed for defeat.

Supporters of the ballot initiative conceded it was unlikely the initiative would close an 11,000-vote deficit in the remaining ballots still to be counted in Maricopa County.