Tag: Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform: The Day After
Well, it’s one day after Harry Reid’s big announcement that the Senate bill would include the opt-out public option. The next big thing is ironing out the details of each bill in the House and the Senate. Democrats are taking a look at some details and proposing some changes, most notably speeding up implementation of […]
Senate Bill To Include Opt-Out Public Option
Harry Reid is holding a press conference starting at 3:15 to announce the details of the health care bill that will voted on by the Senate. Early reports say that the bill will include the opt-out public option. This is important because it will take 60 votes to remove the public option out of the […]
Obama Details Help to Small Businesses
All across America, even today, on a Saturday, millions of Americans are hard at work. They’re running the mom and pop stores and neighborhood restaurants we know and love. They’re building tiny startups with big ideas that could revolutionize an industry, maybe even transform our economy. They are the more than half of all Americans […]
Mike Castle, He’s Talking About You
Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY9) has been a real hero in the fight for health care reform. He has released a study that shows 151 current members of Congress receive Medicare, the dreaded government-run health care system, including 55 Republicans. All of these Republicans are opponents of the public option. Here is the list: Rep. Ralph […]
More Like This Please
Will Al Franken become the Alan Grayson of the Senate? He’s already gotten 30 Republicans on record supporting KBR over rape victims. In this video he puts a health care reform opponent from the Hudson Institute on the grill: Franken: I want to ask you, how many bankruptcies because of medical crisis were there last […]
If You Have Some Free Time…
Most of the health care debate has now moved behind closed doors, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have an effect. Tonight the Delaware Democratic party is sponsoring a phone bank: OFA Phonebank in New Castle County (Time to Deliver Call Party) What: Time to Deliver Call Party When: Tuesday October 20th 7pm – […]
Matt Yglesias Has A Question
Matt Yglesias at Think Progress turns the question on the public option around – are the opponents of health care reform willing to kill the bill if it contains the public option? So far the coverage has been whether progressives would kill the bill if it didn’t contain the public option. It’s an impotant distinction: […]
Delaware Democratic Party Resolution On Health Care Reform
Yesterday, the Huffington Post picked up a story that the Delaware Democratic party passed a health care reform resolution. One purpose of the resolution was to put pressure on Tom Carper to support the public option for health care. Below is the text of the resolution. The full press release can be found here. Delaware […]
Evidence That Health Care Reform Is Moving In The Right Direction
Evidence #1: The health insurance lobbying groups are freaking out. On the eve of the Senate Finance Committee vote on the Baucus Debacle, scheduled for tomorrow, AHIP (the helpful folks that represent the private insurers) released a memo and report yesterday to “Member Plan Presidents and CEOs” detailing just how much they’re going to have […]
Republicans For Health Care Reform
The DNC has a new ad out, featuring Republicans who have spoken out in favor of the Democratic health care reform plan. They include former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, former Senate majority leader Bob Dole, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson and now former Senator Chuck Hagel. Notice how all these […]
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Health Care
Keith Olbermann did an hour-long Special Comment last night on health care reform. It’s quite the blockbuster. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5:
Opt-Out Public Option
When I first heard of the plan to allow states (Red States) to opt-out of the Public Option my initial response was let them. Kinda the same reaction I had to the threats of Texas seceding. It is past time to call these obstructionists on their empty rhetoric. Let them Go Galt. A diary on […]
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