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.MORE »Byline Minnesota Independent By: Andy Birkey Copyright: [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 24.
1. Jon Walker explains "the difference between really trying and pretending to try" by Majority Leader Harry Reid on the public option. Walker quotes Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal, who writes, "Maybe" [...]
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.
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(CliffsNotes: Health care bill "bad for the country. It's'" [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18.
1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest. There are six finalists, vote now!
2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator Thomas] Carper" [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 17.
1. Jon Walker reports that a new ABC/Washington Post poll indicates the country "nearly divided" on the overall health care reform effort, but "very high popular support [for] the public option and the employer" [...]
The "Blue Dog" Democrats, 44 'fiscally conservative' congresspersons, did not acquit themselves well in this year, says the Heritage Foundation, via Stephen Moore:
On three votes that would massively expand the size of government -- the stimulus plan, cap and trade, and health care reform -- Blue Dogs mostly were [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Nov. 5 rally in opposition to Democrat-led health care reform sure has generated press for the Sixth District Republican, but increasingly in ways she might not have anticipated. She ended up apologizing, sort of, for rally attendees who used imagery [...]
Difficult bottom line for some pro-choice advocates: Accept ban language or scuttle health care reform?
By Doug Grow | Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Leaders of abortion-rights religious coalitions say there are many people of faith who support their cause, and they're frustrated that the' [...]
Difficult bottom line for some pro-choice advocates: Accept ban language or scuttle health care reform?
By Doug Grow | Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Leaders of abortion-rights religious coalitions say there are many people of faith who support their cause, and they're frustrated that the' [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 16.
1. Jon Walker reports that "HR 3962's Massive Expansion Of Coverage Would Result In Very Small Increase In Health Care Spending." Walker adds, "Despite the Republican talking point, it is not some liberal overreach-this reform" [...]
I loved this quote from a Pharma industry association exec justifying drug industry price hikes (occurring coincidentally!!) in advance of health care reform:
"In AARP's skewed view of the world, medicines are always looked at as a cost and never seen as a savings -- even though medicines often reduce unnecessary hospitalization, [...]
Posted in Cartoons Tagged: 3 Stooges [...] Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 13.
1. Jane Hamsher writes about a Goldman Sachs evaluation that says the House version of the public option would cause insurance stocks to drop 36% by 2019. Jane concludes, "It's hard to look at" [...]
Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group is again dipping its toes in political waters by involving its employees in the health care debate. It emailed its 75,000 workers Tuesday urging them to contact their senators with concerns about health care reform. Form letters provided to employees, obtained by [...]
