The Public Option, alive, scratching at coffin lid
I don’t know if it’s for real this time, or if it’s just more political posturing on the part of certain Democrats, but it seems as though the so-called “public option” may not be as completely dead as...
View ArticleToday’s “bipartisan” healthcare summit
I don’t have a lot of time to read up on today’s televised 6-hour healthcare summit in DC, but I did want to start a thread, in case anyone out there watched it and wanted to comment… The accompanying...
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The economic tape worm that is the U.S. healthcare industry
I just happened across and interesting graph in the New York Times, showing what, according to a non-partisan research organization called the Commonwealth Fund, we as a nation would have saved had we...
View ArticleRandom thoughts on a Thursday night alone
I was all excited to write about this rumor going around today that Chief Justice John Roberts was preparing to step down from the Supreme Court for “personal reasons,” but, sadly, it looks like it’s...
View ArticleCongressman Alan Grayson calls for a vote on the Public Option now
It’s worth noting that the House healthcare bill already incorporates a public health insurance plan. The issue has always been in the Senate, where we’d need at least 50 votes under reconciliation,...
View ArticleMichael Moore on why he’s reluctantly supporting the health care bill
I know how some of you feel about Michael Moore, but I really like what he had to say this evening on CNN about the health care bill, and why we progressives needed to get behind it, like Dennis...
View ArticleThe face of teabagging, and the prospect of health care reform
There’s a lot I want to blog about tonight, but it’s late, and I’m just getting home. My friend Maria, a newly published author, had a book signing in Ann Arbor tonight, and then there was a going away...
View ArticleObama, finally, gets passionate on health care
Now that we’re in the final push for health care reform, we’re finally starting to see Obama show some spunk. It’s taken over a year to get there, but we’re finally getting a glimpse of the guy we...
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It looks like we have health care reform, what now?
Well, it looks like Obama has done what several Presidents since Harry Truman have tried to do and failed at, and passed comprehensive health care reform legislation. Actually, I don’t believe it’s...
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Michael Moore offers the Occupy movement his thoughts on a list of demands
Michael Moore spent this past weekend working with the men and women of Occupy Wall Street, helping them to craft a vision statement for the movement, and come up with a list of outcomes that they...
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It looks like the Republicans are going to try for a third time to kill...
It looks as though self-proclaimed master dealmaker Donald Trump, who just last year apparently told bestselling author Jon Meacham that, had he been President at the time of Lincoln, he would have...
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DAY 105: Yes, Trump’s fucking his supporters, and shortening their lifespans...
Word is that, on Thursday, as House Republicans are voting to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something that will leave tens of millions of Americans without health coverage, President Trump will...
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We’ve shown them what resistance looks like. Now let’s show them what war...
This afternoon, at about 2:20, our members of Congress voted 217 to 213 to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something that would take health care from over 24 million Americans, cut Medicaid by...
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On the eve of Montana’s special election, the Republican candidate, tech...
Sadly, I suspect it could help him with some percentage of the Republican base, but, earlier this evening, Greg Gianforte, the tech millionaire running for Montana’s single House seat, literally...
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Hoping to kill Obamacare before Trump’s inevitable impeachment, Senate...
Word is, by the end of the month, Senate Republicans will move to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. And, it would seem, they intend to do so without first allowing...
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