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...main source [of revenue] was selling our Ivy League Champions t-shirts,” Sheeleigh says. “Then we had some players work at a swim meet to make extra money. We also held an event at Uno’s Grill one night, where all of the proceeds went to the Harvard women’s soccer team...
...Enroll America will focus on enticing the final 5% of Americans who will be eligible for health insurance under the new law but whom congressional budget scorers do not expect to enroll. On a state-by-state basis, the group will work to create an easy application process for benefits, including access to enrollment at doctors' offices, pharmacies and government agencies that provide other benefits like food stamps. "All of these groups have a business reason to do this," says Pollack, who notes that his new coalition would include "many groups that don't really...
...Enroll America won't be the only outside group working to sell health-insurance reform in the coming months. A coalition of labor and other progressive interest groups plans to launch its own outside effort to educate voters about the benefits of the new reform law in advance of November elections. "If we can teach the public what's in it, it can help trump the politics of repeal," says one person involved in this effort, which is likely to work with Anita Dunn, who resigned as White House communications director in December. "We need to build a political case...
...abnormal for any industry to throw back upon the community the human wreckage due to its wear and tear, and the hazards of sickness ... should be provided for through insurance," said Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, at the dawn of the progressive era. The work of building a social safety net for the industrial age proceeded, in fits and starts, for the next 50 years. The excesses of that effort brought the Reaganite swing in the opposite direction, during which time the protections frayed and the need for a new, more flexible information-age safety net became apparent...
...population. It will have to be modified, and modified again - and one hopes the Republicans, with their natural instinct for efficiency, will participate in that process. But, however flawed, the health care bill is a sign that major, concerted public reforms are once again possible, and that the difficult work of transforming America to compete successfully in a new world of challenges can now begin...