Some hilarious lines in this “Back in Black” segment about health care reform on the Daily Show: I’ve always had a great health care plan; I plan to someday care about my health. And in response to a video showing Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell saying: I had a friend in Florida who had a […]
Two stories today make it clear that, in the words Paul Krugman in the NY Times: I don’t think many people grasp just how raw, how explicit, the corruption of our institutions has become. The first story is about the American Conservative Union, who claim to be the “nation’s largest and oldest conservative grassroots lobby.” […]
Senator Bernie Sanders makes the excellent point. The Republicans try to scare us that socialized medicine will be terrible, but the truth is that we already have socialized medicine in this country — it is run by the Veterans Administration. If any politician tried to get rid of the VA health benefits, they would quickly […]
© Dan Wasserman Federal disclosure records show that the health care industry is spending more than $1.4 million dollars a day to defeat health care reform.
DailyKos has a must-read story about how a woman got (and was cured of) leukemia, and the lengths the insurance companies will go to in order to avoid paying for her care. This is how it is explained to her by a social worker: If you worked for a company that offered insurance, if you […]
This is absolutely nuts: The quote from Michael Scheuer is “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Glenn Beck agrees. In today’s Wall Street Journal is an opinion piece about how dysfunction helps the GOP. It […]
When even The Economist says that our health care system needs overhauling — calling it the costliest in the world but with patchy quality — and (shock!) Walmart supports reforming health care — including a mandate that requires large employers to provide health insurance — you know that America wants real health care reform. The only […]
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