Tag: Health Care Reform
Mike Castle Townhall Tonight!
DD posted about this yesterday, but I’m posting again to ask two favors. Favor #1: Please try to attend if you can. Castle may be a lost cause, but we need to let him know where his constituents stand on health care reform. Favor #2: I’m going to try to attend if I can (I […]
Michael Steele Is The Perfect Leader For The GOP
Michael Steele both loves and hates Medicare. He is both opposed to government-run health care and doesn’t want any cuts. He doesn’t wants cuts to Medicare, but he does. Yeah, I don’t understand it either. I’m sure it’s an art piece, though, and Steele is some kind of existential genius. Does anyone have a B.S. […]
The Summer Of Our Discontent
You’re going to have to color me confused by all the attention given to the Senate Finance Committee and the “Gang of Six” that supposedly hold the future of health insurance reform in their hands. Why is there all this emphasis on this particular committee’s bill? Four of the five committees working on the bills […]
Screw Joe Lieberman!
Is anyone else as sick as I am of all these guys with gold-plated government insurance plans telling everyone else they can’t have insurance? Joe Lieberman doesn’t mind spending money for an unnecessary war in Iraq but actually helping people right here in the U.S. is just too expensive. Never mind that reform is supposed […]
Actions Have Consequences?
Betsy McCaughey, last seen being dismantled by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, has “resigned” from the position with medical device company Cantel. Dick Armey was forced out of his lobbying shop, and now opposition to health care reform has taken a professional toll on another critic: A New Jersey medical device company, Cantel, just […]
Jon Stewart Rips Apart Health Care Misinformer
I don’t know how many of you know who Betsy McCaughey is, but she is very influential in Republican health care politics: Back in the early 1990’s, Betsy McCaughey wrote “No Exit,” an article for The New Republic on the Clinton administration’s healthcare reform plan. The piece was filled with falsehoods — so many, in […]
Another Member Of The Republican Brain Trust Speaks
TPM has a video of Senator “Diaper” David Vitter (R-LA) being asked by a constituent about his support for drug reimportation from Canada. Republicans have spent many months describing Canada as a socialist hellhole, so why would Vitter support using the lower prices that Canada’s system is able to negotiate from pharmaceutical companies? Vitter’s answer? […]
Is This A Bad Sign?
Senator Kennedy has asked the state of Massachusetts to re-examine its law to fill a vacancy in a Senate seat: A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has asked Massachusetts leaders to change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in the Senate, fearing a months-long open seat will deny Democrats a crucial vote […]
Health Care Reform: The Flow Chart
Nicholas Beaudrot of the blog Donkeylicious (who I met at Netroots Nation) put together this handy flow chart of what health care reform will look like: Simple and easy to understand!
It’s About Time! Democrats Will Go It Alone On Health Insurance Reform
This is the best news I’ve heard in a while. The Democrats have decided to go with a Democrat-only bill for health insurance reform. Republicans have made it painfully obvious that they are not interested in any type of reform. Grassley has even said that he will vote against a bill that had everything he […]
Maybe It Is 11-Dimensional Chess
There has certainly been a lot of garment-rending and gnashing of teeth lately about the health insurance reform bill and whether the public option will be included in the final bill. I think Obama is once again pursuing the long game – he’s allowing the Republicans to be seen as the ones who are standing […]
Yawn…Another Day, Another Armed Man Outside A Townhall Meeting
Things are getting crazy out there. For the third time in a week an armed citizen has been spotted outside a meeting where President Obama is going to speak on health care. A man is carrying an assault rifle and a pistol outside the VFW Convention in Phoenix where President Obama will speak later today, […]
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