edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
Today is November 20, the 324th day of the year. On this date in 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
* C3K: Police: Shot Fired During Robbery Attempt
* TDC: Survey: Wisconsin employers pay 22 percent more than nation for health insurance
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1. $493 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Medical Innovation, Payroll And Small Businesses Would Pay For The Bill. (Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)
2. Americans Won’t See Benefits Of This Health Care Experiment Until 2014, But They Start Paying For It In 2010. (Page 13, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter [...]
It didn’t start with the Obama administration but it has accelerated to warp speed under their watch. What am I referring to? Well, the government trying to tell you how to live your life, of course.
Smoking Bans CFL light bulb Banning or taxes on sugar items Forced health insurance purchases Carbon restrictions Salary caps Car manufacturingThese [...]
From Doctor Zero of Hot Air’s The Green Room:
Great ironic ending for the KSM saga: he walks away from a botched trial, but is immediately imprisoned for failing to buy health insurance. [...] …and it has for 18 years:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said [...]
Join people from ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY as we
TAKE ON the Insurance Industry at their national conference in downtown Chicago!
Tell the Insurance Industry:
“Get Out of the Way! We Demand Real Health Care Reform!”
When
Tuesday, November 17th
12:00 Noon
Where
12:00 PM – March Begins: Blue Cross H.Q. [...]
You are invited to join with individuals and organizations from the Milwaukee community to show your concern for the unneeded suffering and deaths that occur because of our flawed health care and insurance systems.
The event will take place at Our Saviors Lutheran Church, 3022 W. Wisconsin [...]
Paul Ryan’s 2 minutes during “debate” on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) exposes his right wing ideology. He’d rather that people die because they don’t have or can’t afford insurance then to force companies to provide this insurance and to allow the government to help subsidize this [...]
Republicans in Washington have a health care reform plan. Really, they do!
The only problem with the GOP’s health care reform plan? it won’t actually do much to fix the current system (emphasis mine):
By 2019, CBO and JCT estimate, the number of nonelderly people without health insurance would be reduced [...]
PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in [...]
The bill about to be voted on in the House will no longer allow insurance companies to deny coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions. It will provide affordable options for individuals to purchase quality health coverage.
Americans deserve affordable, quality coverage that will not be taken away from us, even when [...]
Just got this via email:
STATE CAPITOL — Auto insurance consumers are seeing their rates rise by as much as 40 percent as a result of major non-fiscal insurance policy changes that were stuffed into the recent state fiscal budget. In response, State Senator Joe Leibham (R–Sheboygan) has co-authored legislation that [...]
