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Will Health Care Reform Pass?

November 21, 2009

Tonight's the vote on whether to allow debate in the Senate on the health care reform bill. 60 votes are needed to begin debate….yes, BEGIN debate.
If you've been following this congressional soap opera develop…..in a glacially slow fashion…..you also know that it appears as if Senate Democrats will have the votes tonight to BEGIN [...]

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Makes No Sense

November 6, 2009

Liberal ideas…truly liberal ideas…..are rarely ever considered by Congress. The reason is that liberal ideas, somehow, are never worthy enough to be called American….even though the strength and character of America was built primarily on liberal ideas.
Take, for example, the liberal idea on health care reform. The liberal idea on health care reform is single-payer [...]

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Disloyal Opposition

October 30, 2009

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Sen. Jefferson Sessions (R-AL)
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Those are the Republican senators who voted against cloture on a bill extending unemployment benefits. Apparently, [...]

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Opt-Out? Why?

October 27, 2009

I've been busy. Normal daily blogging will continue tomorrow. Here's something quick on yesterday's health reform news-front.
Surprisingly, to me at least, the health reform bill to be introduced in the Senate will include a public option…..
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced what we've been reporting today – the merged health care bill will include a [...]

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Health Care Reform Debate: Just Starting

October 13, 2009

I've purposely avoided writing very much about the alleged debate allegedly going on over health care reform. As I see it, up til now, we haven't been debating anything. However, now with President Max Baucus' (D-MT) immaculately-conceived version of health reform coming up for a vote today in his Senate Finance Committee, we're getting closer [...]

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"Tenther" Tim Pawlenty

September 12, 2009

Minnesota Republican governor Tim Pawlenty has been touted as a potential GOP candidate for president. Pawlenty's name came up quite often as a possible vice-presidential pick for John McCain in 2008.
Ex-Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, Senator John Ensign (NV) and South Carolina governor Mark Sanford have also been touted as possible GOP presidential candidates for 2012. [...]

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The Big 9, "One Piece" & Big Head Todd

September 10, 2009

Nine big health insurance companies own 76.7% of the health insurance business in America.
Unitedhealth Group, WellPoint and Aetna, collectively, insure 48.3% of Americans who have private health care insurance.
With Obama explaining last night his version of what a health care reform bill would look like,….including a mandate to buy health care insurance…..we can expect that [...]

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Democrats Prepared To Sell Americans Out

September 9, 2009

Digby on a health insurance mandate….
Any plan that forces the uninsured to pay their hard earned money to wealthy private insurance companies under penalty of law is a huge political risk. These are the same companies that have brought us to this place where people are routinely denied the care they were promised, lied [...]

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Message To Obama: "Don't Talk To Our Kids"

September 4, 2009

Crazy sh*t…. The extremists among conservatives in America are pegging the radical meter by threatening to take their kids out of public school the day President Obama is scheduled to speak via teevee to all school children. Obama, say the extremists, is seeking to indoctrinate students with……well…I have no idea…but it's scary and sneaky.
On September [...]

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Free Market Criminality

September 3, 2009

Perhaps you've seen this story…..
Pfizer pays $2.3 billion
Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
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The department said the $2.3 billion settlement included a $1.2 billion criminal fine, the largest criminal fine in U.S. history. The agreement [...]

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