Most of this segment covers whether the American public is “waking up” to the difference between Barack Obama’s rhetoric and his performance, but both Tim Pawlenty and Sean Hannity get to the details — especially on jobs and the economy. Pawlenty says that both Obama and Congress have stopped listening [...]
Easily the two most recognizable Minnesota politicians have been in the news recently.
Last night, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was on Fox News with Sean Hannity talking about health care reform. Here's the video.
Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com
(CliffsNotes: Health care bill "bad for the country. It's'" [...]
Earlier this month, President Obama tried to put aside concerns that those that choose not to participate in the government’s take over of health care would be subjected to fines and possibly prison terms. It’s a very real concern, as under the House bill you very well could do jail [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political battle."
2. [...]
Rep. Walz discusses health care reform at Netroots Minnesota. Photo: Paul Schmelzer, MnIndy
“If my vote sends me back to Mankato West to teach geography, so be it,” said Rep. Tim Walz Saturday of the House [...]
According to this morning’s Rasmussen polling, support for the Democrats’ health care plan is cratering. It isn’t likely to get more popular as more information is reported on. Here’s what Rasmussen’s latest polling shows:
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional [...]
Photo: WDCpix
The rate of uninsured residents in Minnesota’s eight congressional districts is a good predictor of how U.S. House lawmakers voted on health care reform. But, according to data in a new report by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, there’s one [...]
According to this morning's Rasmussen polling, support for the Democrats' health care plan is cratering. It isn't likely to get more popular as more information is reported on. Here's what Rasmussen's latest polling shows:
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional [...]
From one of the smartest men ever to serve in government, here is Robert Reich's take on the state of the health care reform bills now being fought over in Congress. The entire article is well worth reading:
But even the House's shrunken and costly little public option is too [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A procedural vote to bring health care reform legislation to the Senate floor for debate — the first test vote on such legislation in that body — passed Saturday by the [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 20.
1. Jon Walker asks, "Is Harry Reid Laying The Ground Work To Betray Progressives For Snowe's Vote?" In the end, Walker concludes, "Reid does have the power to get a public option passed, there is" [...]
Minnesota Speaker of the House and DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher has collected another union endorsement, this time from the American Federation of State, County and Muncipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 65, which represents 13,000 employees in greater Minnesota.
"Our members worry about how to pay for health care or whether [...]
Lois will be answering questions addressed to her here about health care reform on Saturday, 11/21, between 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
As a child growing up in Marshall, Minn., I had asthma. My father, a Lutheran minister, had a family health insurance plan that, though it had [...]
The National Cooperative Business Association has sent an advisory to co-ops that the most recent health care bill outlined by Senate Democrats still use the word CO-OP for possible new health insurance companies. Hold on a minute, says the NCBA.
The Senate language refers to “Consumer Operated [...]
From Citizen's Council on Health Care:
ALERT - ObamaCare Debate Friday with Vote on Saturday
Call Tomorrow by 5:00 p.m. EST! (try Saturday too in case they answer)
DIRECT Phone and Fax Numbers for Congress
U.S. Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121 - Toll-free numbers
11/19/09 email from U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's office [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19.
1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be [...]
MAK gets her 2nd union endorsement.
Minnesota 2020's Hindsight blog looks at Minnesota's slipping public health ranking.
The Minnesota Independent looks at the Medicaid crisis the health care bill could be creating.
Check out Polinaut for where the candidates for Governor have been this [...]
I urge my fellow Minnesotans to call Senators Klobuchar & Franken to get them to actually read Harry Reid's Senate Health Care bill before they will vote on it. The bill is almost 2100 pages long now. Of course freedom loving' [...]
I urge my fellow Minnesotans to call Senators Klobuchar & Franken to get them to actually read Harry Reid’s Senate Health Care bill before they will vote on it. The bill is almost 2100 pages long now. Of course freedom loving [...]
cspan.orgSens. Al Franken and Harry Reid at Wednesday's news conference.
Klobuchar, Franken praise Senate health care bill
By Derek Wallbank and Cynthia Dizikes | Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A health care bill before [...]
