According to the Congressional Budget Office, a family of four earning $54,000 in 2016, when the health legislation is fully in effect, would be eligible for a subsidy of $10,100 to help defray the cost of [...]
The Senate's compromise bill on health care was announced on Wednesday to much fanfare. But there's not much there for moderate Democrats to write home about. It waters down a provision creating a "public option," but it also expands (to include people over 55) Medicare, a [...]
There’s a a critical call to action in Austin Saturday involving the health care reform proposals pending in Congress. One Voice for Choice has organized a phone banking event in Austin Saturday to call pro-choice voters in Democratic Congressional Districts. Organized by the great folks at [...]
If you believed everything that Texas Republicans told you, then you would have to believe:
Evolution isn't realClimate change isn't realHealth care is bad for youObama is a Kenyan-born Muslim who worships both Hitler and Heath Ledger's portrayal of The JokerOne of the other lies Texas [...]
Those of you that recall the 1992 election well remember the famous line from James Carville. In many ways, that line is true and always will be true. For the Democrats in 2010, that line holds more importance than they could ever guess. People focus on health care reform [...]
Republicans are taking every chance they get to paint Democrats' proposed policies -- any of them, but especially health care -- as job-killing measures. And recent polling shows the tactic could be paying off.
With 10 percent unemployment in the country,' [...]
Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, [...]
Three provisions constitute the vicious heart of the Democrats' health-care overhaul.
The first is "guaranteed issue" and "community rating." This is the requirement that insurance companies have to offer coverage to people who are already sick, and that they be limited in their ability' [...]
British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.
A survey published yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development sees Britain languishing with the Czech Republic and Poland in international [...]
"Compromise Plan" still forces Individuals to buy Coverage
If you feel like I do, the ongoing health care debate has been confusing, wrenching and alienating. Such stress is, the docs tell us, bad for our health. So the debate itself is probably driving up health care demand as lawmakers seek to improve care for millions [...]
Hours after filing for the Republican primary, Debra Medina was in North Fort Worth talking about health care, guns and special sessions.
Medina, who often gets overshadowed in the governor's race by Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, said the emergence of Houston Mayor Bill White in the Democratic [...]
Senator Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Senate, speaking about the health care reform bill. From Think Progress:
"This will become one more example of the arrogance of power being exerted since the Democrats secured a 60-vote majority in the United States Senate and took over the House" [...]
I think I understand the rationale for cuts to Medicare spending as part of the overall health care reform package, but I have to admit I don’t understand the rationale behind this:
Home care shows, in microcosm, a conundrum at the heart of the health care debate. Lawmakers have decided [...]
