Billionaires for Wealthcare Strike Again!!!!

You may remember the group “Billionaires for Wealthcare” that satirized the opponents of Health Care Reform during the tea party protests. Well guess what? They’re BACK! And this time, they’ve infiltrated the conference of AHIP – America’s Health Insurance Plans. AHIP is the lobby that put out the bogus study saying that reform [...]

Medicare for Everyone

Major revelations and victories this week in Health Care Reform! Simply changing the name of the ‘public option’ to ‘Medicare Part E’ – (the ‘E’ being for ‘everybody’) – has brought yet another Blue Dog Democrat (Mike Ross – AR) behind the push for a public option. Also, the House Judiciary Committee has [...]

Health Insurers: “We Will Raise Rates, Regardless”

On the Eve of the final committee vote on Health Care Reform in the Senate Finance Committee, the Health Insurance lobby (AHIP – America’s Health Insurance Plans) has released a propaganda-esque ‘report’ in conjunction with PriceWaterHouseCoopers. In an attempt to sway the vote, the report states that Insurance Companies will dramatically raise their [...]

The Irony of “Socialized Insurance”

Conservatives often state that they are philosophically opposed to the concept of government-run insurance, and use this philosophical stance to justify their opposition to public health care. But is that really the case? In 2007, Republicans broadly supported the expansion of a national government-run flood insurance, one that is both taxpayer subsidized and [...]

Buy Private Insurance or GO TO JAIL?!?

In the true spirit of the increasingly corrupt Baucus Bill, today the Senate Finance Committee debated an amendment that would have imposed CRIMINAL PENALTIES on those choosing not to buy private health insurance under the new mandate system. This outrageous proposition, put forth by a Republican Senator, comes one day after the Finance [...]

Republicans Support the Public Option!?!?

A recent poll out this weekend by CBS News and the New York Times shows MAJORITY SUPPORT for a Public Option by REPUBLICAN voters! By a margin of 47% to 42%, Republican voters support a Public Option as a component of Health Care Reform. In addition, a majority of Republican voters (51%) would OPPOSE a [...]

Standing up for Ourselves…

With all the shouting and name-calling from the vocal minority on the right, many conservative Democrats feel that they have to compromise on Health Care Reform. But what about what the true Left wants? We’re the ones who delivered both houses of Congress and the Presidency to the Democrats, yet it seems progressives [...]

Obama Sells Out On Public Option

more about “Countdown:Public option fight“, posted with vodpod
It’s time to get ANGRY, people. Based on statements by White House staff, President Obama is no longer necessarily going to fight to keep the Public Option, protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, a national health care exchange, or small business tax credits for health insurance. It [...]