... to include illegal aliens in universal healthcare (nclr.org/content/news/detail/57979). They're "strongly urg[ing] President Obama and Congress to make every effort to ensure that health care reform reaches all communities", and they don't want there to be any citizenship or related eligibility testing. They also make this statement:
No single community stands to gain as much from this important...
... Devin Nunes have released a GOP universal healthcare proposal called the "The Patients' Choice Act of 2009" that you can read about here. As with many others, it misleads about the number of Americans who are without healthcare. The number frequently heard is 45 to 47 million, but that's not true: per the latest Census Bureau statistics, there are only about 36 million Americans without...
What kind of 28-page strategy memo outlining how the GOP should handle healthcare would avoid mentioning the immigration angle? Why, none other than the one just released by Frank Luntz. You can download a copy of the PDF from politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/The_full_Luntz.html (the link at that page isn't marked as a PDF).
I just did a find through the document, and there were no instances of...
Jeanne Lambrew - University of Texas professor, former Bill Clinton aide, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress - has been named the deputy director of the Office of Health Reform for the upcoming Obama administration (link). Her biography is at [1].
She contributed a chapter [2] to the just-released book "Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President",...
... territories". In other words, they want universal healthcare to include illegal aliens.
The groups involved, their agenda, and parts of their press release (link) follows.