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by Josh Kalven
5:19pm
Tue Sep 1, 2009
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Schakowsky Town Hall: Rescission And The Underinsured

Jan Schakowsky

Here's another clip from Rep. Jan Schakowsky's health care town hall meeting in Niles last night.  As you'll see, an audience member asks her to explain the difference between health care and health care coverage. Schakowsky's answer is on point, as she tells two stories that ...

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by Progress Illinois
4:00pm
Tue Sep 1, 2009

Chicago Health Care Vigil Tomorrow Evening

Health Care

Tomorrow evening in Chicago's Grant Park, MoveOn is inviting supporters of health care reform to attend their "We Can't Afford To Wait" vigil to make sure members of Congress know "that an overwhelming majority of voters are counting on them to act quickly to ...

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by Adam Doster
1:52pm
Tue Sep 1, 2009
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Shimkus Cites NYT Editorial - But Did He Read It?

New York Times

When it comes to the health care refom debate, GOP Rep. John Shimkus thinks liberals are using disingenuous figures to
describe the size of the nation's uninsured population. "Forty-five
million [people] sounds worse than than 15 million," he said on Springfield ...

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by Josh Kalven
10:07am
Tue Sep 1, 2009
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Schakowsky Town Hall: Booing Ted Kennedy? Really?

Health Care

We attended Rep. Jan Schakowsky's health care town hall meeting in Niles last night where over 2,000 people showed up, packing a high school auditorium and spilling onto the sidewalk outside.  There was a real variety of opinion expressed during the 90-minute meeting, with ...

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by Adam Doster
4:29pm
Mon Aug 31, 2009

WLS To Hold Health Care Town Hall Tomorrow

Danny Davis

Congress returns to Washington next week and elected officials are
using their last days of the August recess to continue discussing
health care reform with their constituents.  Tonight, we'll be
attending Rep. Jan Schakowsky's town hall meeting in Niles and will ...

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by Josh Kalven
5:13pm
Wed Aug 26, 2009

Phil Hare: We "Owe It" To Ted Kennedy To Pass Health Care Reform

Phil Hare

I had a chance this afternoon to sit down briefly with Rep. Phil Hare today as he passed through Chicago.  Below is the first part of our interview, which touched on Sen. Ted Kennedy's death and the prospects for passing health care reform this fall.  Hare said that he'd ...

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by Angela Caputo
2:32pm
Wed Aug 26, 2009

The Future Of (Limited) Employer-Sponsored Health Care

Labor

Yesterday, employees at the SK Hand Tool Corp.'s factories in Chicago and McCook hit the picket line in protest of their company's decision to pull the plug abruptly on their health insurance benefits. The Sun-Times made a trip out to the site and talked with workers like ...

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by Angela Caputo
12:04pm
Wed Aug 26, 2009

10th District Consituents For A Public Option

Health Care

At his health care town hall on Tuesday, Rep. Mark Kirk made a misleading case to justify siding with the medical insurance lobby on health care reform. But not everyone who came out to hear the
Senate hopeful speak was convinced that his proposal to tweak the status quo ...

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by Angela Caputo
5:25pm
Tue Aug 25, 2009
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Kirk's Town Hall Health Care Myths

Health Care

At a town hall meeting last night, Rep. Mark Kirk once again resorted to using stale facts and bogus figures to diminish the urgency of overhauling the nation's ailing health care system.