h/t The Daily Dish:This is mostly a message problem for Republicans, but it’s one that’s been a long time coming. Much of the conservative movement has honed in on “Medicare cuts” as a killer argument against health care reform. [...]
h/t The Daily Dish:
It’s no surprise that the health care tussle in Congress has infiltrated the General Assembly. After all, bills were introduced in the House to allow South Carolina to opt out of a health care plan that has yet to pass the U.S. Senate or get [...]
SENATOR WORKING TO PROHIBIT PUBLICLY-FUNDED ABORTIONS
Sen. Lindsey Graham is championing a measure to prohibit publicly-funded abortions in the Senate’s proposed trillion-dollar health care bill.
Graham said Tuesday he will vote in support of the amendment to the Democrat health care bill by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Orrin [...]
Today the Republicans in the US Senate failed in advancing one of their efforts to improve health care for Americans: eliminating $40 billion dollars from existing programs for giving the elderly in-home assistance so they don't have to move into nursing home farms.' [...] CUSTOM HOUSE 200 East Bay St. Charleston
Also rallies same day and time in Columbia and Greenville:
Columbia: 1901 Main St.
Greenville: 105 North Spring St.
Patrick C. Labbe RN [...]
Jim Roosevelt presented an informative lecture at the Citadel in Charleston, SC on health care reform on December 3, 2009. James Roosevelt Jr. is president and CEO of Tufts Health Plan, a non-profit health maintenance organization. Roosevelt (Image at Right) joined Tufts in 1999 as senior [...]
WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today introduced an amendment to protect and ensure health care coverage for low-income children. The amendment would, in part, continue full funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) [...] 
Senator Chuck Grassley doesn't want health care reform but is happy to- well, let him explain it:
GRAHAM: LEGISLATION ‘SHOVELS DIRT ON GRAVES OF HOPE, CHANGE AS CAMPAIGN SLOGANS’
Thirty-nine Senate Republicans weren’t enough to stop a bill creating a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system from moving forward [...]
[...] WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ahead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday night showdown on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative.
In long-awaited speeches, centrist Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said they would stand [...]
Earlier today, a reader sent me an interesting video clip of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-Hell) talking about national health care legislation in 1973. Unfortunately I can't embed the video here, but you can see it for yourself on a USC library website.
My reader said the clip had Thurmond [...]
An 800-pound Greenwood County man has died after spending eight months in his recliner.
Having narrowly been rammed through the U.S. House earlier this month, it’s now the U.S. Senate’s turn to shove a little socialized medicine up the collective American yin-yang …
Quick, somebody call our proctologist! While we can still afford him!
Having introduced his 2,074-page, $900 billion (some [...]
