Just finished a video that my good friend and long time collaborator Rick Fitts and I shot earlier in the fall. North Carolina residents speak to their elected representatives on health care reform. "Faces For Reform" a film by Rick Fitts and John Autry.
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Dozens of supporters of President Barack Obama will gather in Raleigh and Charlotte Saturday for training in ways to support Obama on issues such as health care and in future elections.
The workshops are designed to train volunteers to lead "Rapid Response Teams" that can activate people to lobby Congress [...]
DURHAM — Democratic Senate candidate Kenneth Lewis criticized Republican Sen. Richard Burr’s position on health care legislation Thursday, saying he was part of the Washington establishment that had blocked efforts to make health care more affordable.
I’m not trying to defend Burr because his performance in the [...]
The U.S. Senate took another vote on health care today, again on an amendment.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, proposed an amendment that would require insurers to follow doctors recomendations on which women’s preventive health services to cover, Barb Barrett reports.
Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr voted [...]
Obama's government has many issues to fix and to answer. People are not really satisfied to his governance. Many issues and problems that are needing answers and solutions from him.
Health care costs in the United States exceed those of any other nation. Millions [...]
Elizabeth Edwards is scheduled to speak in Raleigh this weekend about health care reform.
Edwards, a health care advocate and wife of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, will speak at a luncheon sponsored by Common Cause North Carolina. The nonpartisan organization, which [...]
Sen. Reid and other Senate Democrats, please don’t try to, yet again, spin a tale and tell me how the Senate health care “reform” bill will lower my costs. Bologna. In fact, it will do the opposite to my family, per CBO estimates.
Who will stand up and speak [...]
Over the holiday I picked up a copy of the December issue of US News and World Report – the cover story promised a comprehensive review of the “best health plans” and more, more, more on health care. The reporting was pretty good and included one story with a [...]
Progressive Voices commentator Adam Linker exposes Senator Burr’s duplicitous nature in his commentary “Richard Burr on health care: Less than candid and ineffective“.
Commentator Bill Schweke looks at how the national economy is doing in “Obama between a rock and a hard place on the economy.”
Share and Enjoy: [...]With Thanksgiving over, members of Congress will now have to deal with leftovers – specifically the unfinished business of health care reform.
Adam Searing, Director of the North Carolina Health Access Coalition, joins Chris Fitzsimon in the studio this week to discuss the legislation and its supporters and detractors.
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How will the Senate’s health care bill impact North Carolina? Check out these comments from Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC).
[...]Twenty state lawmakers have signed a letter calling for an investigation into a campaign by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. that was meant to thwart Democratic proposals for health care legislation.
The letter complains of robocalls made by the insurer as well as the fact that the [...]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Rep. Pricey Harrison asking N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate Blue Cross Blue Shield for its political-style activities. Now 20 lawmakers are asking the AG if the insurer stepped over the line in advocating against a federal health care bill. In addition to [...]
Usually, when only 19 percent of Americans believe something, they are considered to be either misguided, ignorant or delusional. So which one is U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan? The other day she confidently announced that one reason she was supporting Harry Reid’s health care bill was that it would help [...]
What did the drama surrounding new mammogram policies teach us about Obamacare? That, “the political left supports such medical rationing even as it disavows that any such thing is happening” says the WSJ’s opinion headliner. The article traces the “political duck-and-cover” following last week’s new health policy that said women [...]
New and very interesting numbers from Meg Gray at the Budget and Tax Center:
Media Release
County-specific data on unemployment, poverty, wages and income, income inequality, health care, food stamps and the Living Income Standard is now available to media members, legislators and the public
RALEIGH (Nov. 24, 2009) - The [...]
You knew it was only a matter of time.
After claiming that President Obama’s health care reform would kill our grandmothers, devastate Medicare and turn the United States into Lenin’s Soviet Union, reform opponents now say that the plan is also a ploy to take away everybody’s guns.
