Tag: Health Care Reform
The GOP plot to kill senior citizens
How do you know what the wingnuts are plotting? Easy – anything they accuse others of doing. Remember when Jonah Goldberg, after years of “you’re either with us or you’re a terrorist sympathizer”, started talking about “Liberal Fascism”? Remember how the party that tried to force an extremist religious viewpoint on America started talking about how […]
Blue Dogs Raking It In and Sticking It To The Poor
The Blue Dog Democrats coalition has raised more money than any other PAC in 2009. Somehow, coincidentally, the Blue Dogs are the ones holding up healthcare reform. I’m sure there’s no relationship.
‘Non-Partisan’ Health Care Research Group Owned By…Health Insurance Company
The Washington Post blows the whistle (and a hearty Tip of the Sombrero to Americablog for picking it up): The political battle over health-care reform is waged largely with numbers, and few number-crunchers have shaped the debate as much as the Lewin Group, a consulting firm whose research has been widely cited by opponents of […]
The Democrat Who Would Kill Health Care Reform
No, it’s not Tom Carper, although, based on his verified ties to the industry, he likely would if he could, and he’s doing his best as a junior obfuscator. It’s Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, who WILL kill health care reform if enough of his Senate Democratic colleagues (including Tom Carper) allow him to. A […]
Castle Votes No On Healthcare Reform
Mike Castle voted no on the healthcare reform bill from the House HELP committee, citing the tax on the top 1.5% of wealthy Americans as his reason.
Bob Cesca’s Awesome Health Care Post
Read the whole thing while I highlight some of my favorite parts. While I spent a few moments of my holiday weekend revisiting the irony of anti-socialism protests taking place on socialized park land, it occurred to me that the proposed government-run public health insurance option probably won’t cost nearly as much as the CBO […]
Dr. Howard Dean Talks Health System Reform
Great interview in Esquire: ESQ: Speaking of the Obama plan, you’re even stronger than he has been lately in support of the public plan. You say that without it, it’s not reform. HD: It’s not. It’s a waste of time. Don’t pretend you’re going to do health-insurance reform unless you’re really going to change the […]
Rally for Health Care Action — Comment Rescue
This notice is courtesy of PBaumbach in the Carper thread: If you would like to vent at Carper (or at least his office), there is a rally on Thursday organized by Tom and Alice Davis: http://pol.moveon.org/event/healthcareaction/94316 *Here are the details: Robust Rally for Robust Public Option Sen. Thomas Carper’s District Office 1 Christina Center, 301 […]
More Like This Please! — David Shuster Asks Sen Carper Tough Questions
….on the health insurance bills in Congress. He specifically tossed the amount of money Carper has taken from the various health care and pharm industries at Senator Carper to ask him how it effects his vote. All told, Carper answered very little of Shuster’s questions. Take a look: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEPMP0e0Hss[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca
Democrats Announce New Health Care Plan
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has released details of a new health care plan. (The leaders of the committee are Sen. Kennedy and Sen. Dodd.) The plan has a public option and is paid for by fees on employers. The plan carries a 10-year price tag of slightly over $600 billion, and […]
Late Night Video
A video about the high costs of universal fire care from HAARM.org, Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine.
Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2v5tVWcnGE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] We have a little over a month to apply pressure to Senator Carper to support public option health care. (302) 573-6291 Put this number in your cell phone or your wallet or purse. Call it on your lunch break tomorrow. Ask his staff (or leave a message asking) if Senator Carper supports offering public […]
Health Care Monopolies
The next time you hear the anti-reform forces talking about competition, think of this report. But the notion that most American consumers enjoy anything like a competitive marketplace for health care is flatly false. And a study issued last month by a pro-reform group makes that strikingly clear. The report, released by Health Care for […]
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