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Obama Scolds His Base….Again

December 8, 2010

Obama scolding the very people who put him in office….. So this notion that somehow we are willing to compromise too much reminds me of the debate that we had during health care. This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislation where we finally get health [...]

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Health Care Reform…..Almost Done

December 21, 2009

In the early morning hours today, the Senate voted 60-40 for cloture on….. ….a major package of health care amendments–and by doing so, signaled that the Democratic caucus is unified, and ready to pass a far-reaching reform bill straight down party lines. The Senate is now expected to hold more procedural votes on Tuesday and [...]

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Kill The Bill

December 17, 2009

The last two mornings my Roadrunner has been working like an old Ford with a bad carburetur……every time I would try to save my work, it was lost. Lots of very vulgar words were spoken. If you didn't see Keith Olbermann's special comment last night urging Congress and the president to scrap the current rubbish [...]

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No Change At All

December 15, 2009

The Obama White House and Congressional Democrats are hurriedly wrapping the huge Christmas present they're preparing to give to their bestest friends forever….for-profit coporate health care insurers. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, is doing most of the holiday wrapping this year…. Obama administration officials were not pleased when word leaked out earlier today that [...]

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Medicare Buy-In

December 9, 2009

Now it's getting embarassing. As I predicted, the Senate has jettisoned the public health insurance option……not that this is a surprise in any way. Many Senators work directly for big medical-pharma-insurance corporations who pay for their elections. Nothing personal against those Americans who need health insurance, mind you……it's just not in their corporate clients' interest……profits [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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