edited by: Lisa Mossie,
Pennsylvania Editor
My prepared remarks to the "Million Med March" in Harrisburg
Thank you. Good afternoon. Thanks for everyone here for coming out - I know none of us really want to spend our Saturday at the state capitol. Normally, I'd be watching the Michigan-Ohio State football' [...]
Yesterday, US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put forth a new, 2,074 page health care reform bill. The Senate is expected to vote on it in the next few days. Click here to read the whole thing. That is too much for me, so I will instead read both [...]
PHOTO INDEX: HEALTH REFORM LOGO. PHOTO INDEX: HEALTH REFORM LOGO. 
Last Thursday, Bethlehem Mayor and Democratic Congressional candidate John Callahan wandered from city hall to participate in a health care reform demonstration outside Congressman Charlie Dent's office. He bravely announced he was "proud to stand with the hard working members of SEIU so that'" [...] The Democratic National Committee has booked air time on Cat Country 96.1 FM to take on Republican 15th District Congressman Charlie Dent for voting against the House Democrats' Health Care reform bill.
Here's a little sample from the script:
"When the U.S. [...]
According to this AP piece there is at least one shadowy group that wishes to remain unknown.
One clue to the mystery group may lie in its goals: to oppose any government-run insurance option, the approach favored by President Barack Obama and most Democrats, and to support requiring all [...]
What follows is the full transcript of a recent interview with U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th District, that appeared in and edited version as a point/counterpoint in Sunday's Morning Call
Q: You voted no on Congressional Democrats’ health care reform legislation last weekend. Why?
A: It cuts Medicare by nearly a half trillion [...]
What follows is the full transcript of an interview with 15th District Congressional candidate John Callahan on the topic of health care reform. Callahan, a member of the Democratic Party, is mayor of Bethlehem
Q: How would you have voted on the Medicare bill that passed the House this weekend?
I [...]
Democratic Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan was expected to join pro-health care reform protesters outside the local office of his his 15th Congressional District opponent Charlie Dent today to protest the Republican's vote Saturday against House Democrats' health care bill.
Callahan has not said whether he would [...]
Why I Voted Against Speaker Pelosi's Health Care Bill
LV Congressman Charlie Dent's NO vote on Pelosi care has drawn the ire of some of his constituents. In the Morning Call letter-to-the-editor, one reader chides Dent for caving in to Big Insurance. And blogger Rylock is convinced Charlie has sold out to Big' [...] Why I Voted Against Speaker Pelosi's Health Care BillSome progressives, motivated in part by Dennis Kucinich’s vote against HR 3926 are expressing disappointment with and even opposition to the health care reform legislation going through Congress.
While HR 3926 is not perfect—and the anti-abortion language added to it is terrible and will, we believe, be removed later in the [...]
Marty Feldstein has an editorial in the Washington Post detailing how the current health care reform proposals in Congress could actually increase the number of uninsured individuals. Namely, he points to some of the mandates contained in the legislation.
Specifically, mandating [...]
From his website:
As I said following the initial committee vote in July, I voted against the House’s health care reform bill in the Education and Labor Committee because it failed to effectively rein in rising health care costs; it was punitive toward small businesses; and it paid for reform [...]
