Health Care Reform – Page 6

Health Care Plan Comparison

By xstryker January 29, 2010

Comparison between the Democratic plan and the GOP plan: Mike Castle voted against the Democratic plan and for the GOP plan. Yet another reason why Mike Castle must not be…

The Republican Plan To Kill Reconciliation

By Unstable Isotope January 26, 201011 Comments

The Republicans have a plan to defeat Democrats in the Senate trying to use reconciliation. I asked a senior GOP Senate aide to explain the game plan for making this…

Smell The Bipartisanship

By Unstable Isotope January 26, 20109 Comments

Republicans haven't changed much from the Bush administration. Bipartisan to them still means that Democrats adopt Republican ideas: Last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) "made it clear that…

David Plouffe To The Rescue

By Unstable Isotope January 24, 201029 Comments

Yesterday the White House announced that David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, would take an expanded role. Today an op-ed by Plouffe appeared in the Washington Post called "November doesn't need…

Krugman: Pass The Bill Already

By Unstable Isotope January 22, 201076 Comments

Congressional Democrats, please listen to this man: A message to House Democrats: This is your moment of truth. You can do the right thing and pass the Senate health care…

It’s Worse Than That, It’s Dead Jim

By liberalgeek January 21, 2010187 Comments

Well Nancy Pelosi has just come out to say that there aren't enough votes for the Senate bill in the House. So the Kill the Bill people have won. I…

Health Care Reform: The Back-Up Plan

By Unstable Isotope January 18, 20102 Comments

Apparently the Democrats do have a back-up plan if Coakley loses her race and nudie teabagger Scott Brown becomes the next Senator from Massachusetts: As I noted last week, the…

Thanks, Tom Carper!

By Unstable Isotope January 16, 20107 Comments

The pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PHARMA is threatening to pull its support for the health care reform legislation because of a change in the health care bill. The drug industry…

Rush Limbaugh Praises Health Care Reform, Unionized Hospitals

By Unstable Isotope January 5, 20106 Comments

Over the Christmas holiday, Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital in Hawai'i because of chest pains. He praised the treatment he got there: "Based on what happened to me…

Was Fox In On The Scam?

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 20106 Comments

The "grassroots" groups that grew up around the tea party movement were generally funded by industry-backed groups. The tea parties were heavily promoted by Fox News with some of their…

Calculating Subsidies In Health Care

By pandora December 27, 20095 Comments

To see if you'd receive subsidies from HCR, check out this interesting little calculator from the Kaiser Family Foundation. This tool illustrates premiums and government assistance under the types of…

Mike Castle: Gutless Hypocrite

By xstryker December 26, 20098 Comments

Mike Castle, circa 2004: I supported the Medicare Prescription Drug bill because it was a historic opportunity, since the inception of the program in 1965, to add a pharmaceutical discount…

God Works In Mysterious Ways

By Unstable Isotope December 22, 20096 Comments

Remember Sen. Coburn's very classy call to pray someone didn't show up to vote on the Senate health care reform bill? Well, interestingly, this morning one Senator didn't show up…