Senate debate on health care reform came to an abrupt halt this week over a proposal from Sen. Byron Dorgan (Dem-ND) to allow the reimportation of FDA-approved drugs from Canada and other countries. Dorgan’s proposal throws a monkey-wrench into the agreement between the White House and big pharma (and Max [...]
A major obstacle to the health care reform legislation in the Senate is looming ahead and it may be one that can not be easily overcome. When the House version of health care reform passed, it was only because moderate Democrats were persuaded to vote for it after anti-abortion language [...]
The Oklahoman editorial page continues its war against health care reform even as it supports a large escalation of the country’s military occupation in Afghanistan.
Let’s be clear: The Oklahoman editorial page continues to support deficit-increasing military occupations and wasteful defense spending while opposing a [...]
Now that the Senate has voted to vote on health care reform they can finally get to crafting a version of the measure that may actually pass. Even given the close vote in the House on their final measure it would be surprising if they chose not to agree with [...]
Over the weekend, the Senate voted to open debate on health care reform. While this seems like a simple and harmless progression of events, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent trying to prevent this very event. Throats have been made raw through vocal and angry rhetoric while reputations [...]
My readers (all three of you) are probably going to think I am way behind the times with this story, but I think it bears mentioning. Imagine my surprise as I was listening to NPR this morning and one of the commentators said something about how health care reform was [...]
Senator Mary Landrieu
After ten hours of floor speeches and debate, the United States Senate is set to vote at 8:00 PM EST to send it’s version of health care reform to the Senate floor for debate. For a while, it looked as if they may fall two [...]
One of the reasons Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was able to scrape her version of health care reform by earlier this month was because of concessions she made to the moderates in her party, concerning abortion. Those concessions were due, in large part, to the [...]
OKWatchdog will be there to talk about health insurance reform. Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland, Wayne' [...]
