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 [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 12.
1. Jane Hamsher writes that "Harry Reid says he has a wonderful relationship with the albatross hanging around his neck," aka Joe Lieberman. Personally, I still can't comprehend how Lieberman wasn't booted from the [...]
Rep. Steve Israel is demanding that Michele Bachmann apologize because one sign at last Thursday’s health care rally had images of the Holocaust:
Rep. Steve Israel is still waiting for an apology four days after people protesting health care reform legislation used Holocaust imagery at a rally organized by Rep. [...]
Rep. Steve Israel is demanding that Michele Bachmann apologize because one sign at last Thursday's health care rally had images of the Holocaust:
Rep. Steve Israel is still waiting for an apology four days after people protesting health care reform legislation used Holocaust imagery at a rally organized by Rep. [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 11.
1. Jane Hamsher points us to Kagro's "excellent rundown of what happened on the public option fight," and also why abortion rights activists, with "an existing network of professional lobbyists and policy analysts, plus a" [...]
In today's Mankato Free Press coverage of the Quist health care reform forum, , staff reporter Mark Fischenich writes:
Quist, who promised to have details of his fiscal analysis of the bill on his Web site in the next five days, was joined by a Minnesota nurse who' [...]
The House passed an historic health care reform bill Saturday night. Congressman Jim Oberstar (DFL-MN) points out the bill is not perfect, but outlines why he supports it.
Transcript:
Madame Speaker, I have been a proponent of a national health care system as long as I [...]
It is clear that the passion among both supporters and opponents of the Democrats' health care plan continues to run high in Rochester.
On Thursday, liberal political action committee MoveOn.org has scheduled a rally in support of health care reform in front of Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office in Rochester. The rally [...]
