All Posts Tagged With: "Health Care"
Dick Perry Wanted to Go Bi
Bi-National Health Care that is and the Tea Party is none to pleased.
2Sep2011 | nemski | Comments Off | Continued
The Idea Of Seniors Shopping For Health Insurance Is Insane
If you have ever had to purchase individual health insurance you know exactly how insane Paul Ryan’s senior health insurance vouchers are. If you haven’t then you might want to read a post I wrote in November 2008.
Fact: Individual health insurance is only cost competitive if you’re young and healthy, because health insurance has nothing [...]
Socialized Health Care Before There Was Socialism
Who would have thought that the Founding Fathers were a bunch of Socialists!
Teabaggers around the country are eating crow tonight. They just found out that our Founding Fathers, those gentlemen who teabaggers place on a pedestal and worship every night before going to sleep, mandated that private citizens purchase health insurance.
In July of 1798, [...]
Kucinich: GOP Might Give Life to Public Option
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said on Fox News that if the Republicans try to dismantle the healthcare legislation passed in the last Congress they may “paradoxically be creating the opening to push single-payer forward again”.
2Jan2011 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
Hey, I Found Those Republican Death Panels
Heartbreakingly cruel.
PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.
Effective at the beginning of October, Arizona stopped financing certain transplant operations under the state’s version of Medicaid. Many doctors say [...]
The New Chicken Barter Economy
I was wrong that Republicans don’t have new ideas! Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sue Lowden thinks health care reform is wrong and she has a better idea:
Sue Lowden, the likely GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada, has a novel plan for health care reform: haggling with your doctor over prices.
Lowden offered her proposal [...]
Health Care Summit Thread
Might as well put up a thread. Begins at 10:00.
If you’re watching please add your thoughts in the comment’s section. I hope to catch a lot of this.
This Is Gonna Hurt…
I’ve been wanting to use this classic post (I Hate Your Politics) for years, but never really had the opportunity. Well… I do now. And what I’m writing here isn’t directed at any individual politician – it’s directed at us. I’m highlighting the section on liberals, but you should really read the whole thing, because [...]
15Dec2009 | pandora | 196 comments | Continued
The GOP and Health Care
Everyone that reads Delaware Liberal can probably agree that health insurance is a huge strain on Americans, businesses (big and small) and the government. For instance, according to the New York Times, small businesses are looking forward to a sharp increase in health insurance costs.
Insurance brokers and benefits consultants say their small business clients are [...]
Some Not So Random Political Thoughts
Just because I was sedated and sadistically eviscerated during my stint in Third Person Rehab, I still had time in between fevered dreams to think about what was going on locally and nationally. Here are a couple of observations:
1. The seeds to defeat in Saturday’s 37th RD Special Election were sown by Bob Gilligan in [...]
What I’ve Learned Today
What I’ve learned today is that Republicans, in general, are a bitter bunch of people.
4Sep2009 | nemski | 15 comments | Continued
With the Passing of Kennedy, Time for Obama to Emulate JFK
Though JFK inspired so many of ‘bulo’s generation with his appeal to youthful idealism, people forget that it was Lyndon Baines Johnson who succeeded in passing most of the landmark bills that JFK had proposed, but had not gotten moved through the Congress.
Here’s what LBJ did:
He resolved to complete Kennedy’s legislative agenda, and his success [...]
UPDATED: Conservatives Want Government Out Of Our Health Care… Except When They Don’t
Via HuffPo:
On July 13, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that establishes–among other restrictions on access to sexual and reproductive health services–an in-person counseling requirement and a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can obtain an abortion. Proponents of the new law claim that it helps inform women’s abortion decisions. In truth, [...]
We Already Have Death Panels
Please go read Southern Beale’s entire piece, and then pass it on.
Don’t talk to me about death panels, Sarah Palin.
You, who so carelessly bolstered a lie about healthcare reform to score a cheap political point; you, the most craven of political opportunists, who fearmongers about some dystopian socialist/fascist fantasyland; you, who earlier this year were [...]
Put Up Or Shut Up – More Of This Please
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) hits it out of the park by double-daring Republicans to back up their trash talk about government run health care… by voting on eliminating medicare.
It’s about time someone called them out. Make them put their vote where their mouth is – if they dare. It’s quite a dilemma for the GOP, and [...]
1Aug2009 | pandora | 16 comments | Continued
Why Isn’t This Called Bribery?
Via WaPo:
The roiling debate about health-care reform has been a boon to the political fortunes of Ross and 51 other members of the Blue Dog Coalition, who have become key brokers in shaping legislation in the House. Objections from the group resulted in a compromise bill announced this week that includes higher payments for rural [...]
Jon Stewart Destroys Bill Kristol On Healthcare
Jon Stewart gets Bill Kristol to admit the the VA system is an exceptional healthcare system but that the rest of Americans don’t deserve it. Kristol gets caught up in the typical GOP talking point trap of “government run healthcare is really awful but it’s so good that private insurance can’t compete.” Republicans are just incoherent on this issue. At least he wasn’t repeating the Faux News talking point that Barack Obama wants to kill your grandmother.
28Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
New CBO Report: Public Option Will NOT Drive Private Insurers Out Of Business
Oh well, there goes another talking point.
The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the public option proposed by Democrats would not drive private insurers out of business and most people would still choose to get their medical coverage through employers.
The CBO Report also calls into question the Lewin Group’s analysis:
The CBO report estimated [...]
Drug Companies Get Subsidized For Bombarding Us With Ads
I really hate all the pharma ads on TV. Now I have an even better reason to abhor them. (h/t Digby)
Meanwhile, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has introduced a bill called the Say No to Drug Ads Act. It would amend the federal tax code to prevent pharmaceutical companies from deducting the cost [...]
Does Carper Duck The Question? Let’s go to the tape.
Here are the questions. View the tape an let me know in the comments section if Carper’s responses pass the smell test.
MSNBC GUY: Why shouldn’t people believe that your (health care reform vote) has been influenced by the money you’ve gotten from Insurance companies?
MSNBC Guy: But [...]
What Do The Blue Dogs Want?
Paul Krugman lays it out.
So what are the objections of the Blue Dogs?
Well, they talk a lot about fiscal responsibility, which basically boils down to worrying about the cost of those subsidies. And it’s tempting to stop right there, and cry foul. After all, where were those concerns about fiscal responsibility back in 2001, when [...]
Common Ground, Not So Much
A group called Democrats for Life kicked out Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) because of his support of a bill increasing access to contraception. So much for the “common ground” argument.
23Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
QOTD: Health Insurance Nightmares
Read this story of lost insurance and then answer the following: What would you do? I would try moving to England.
8Jul2009 | xstryker | 3 comments | Continued
Fixing The Health Care Bill
Ezra Klein has an idea…
Health reform, remember, is a long game. The Senate Finance Committee will not write the health reform bill. They will just write their version of it. Then it will merge with the HELP Committee’s version. Then it will be amended on the floor of the Senate. Then it will be merged [...]
Why Delaware Needs Health Reform
Health Care facts and figures, from HealthReform.gov (thanks, HHS Secretary Sebelius!)
DELAWAREANS CAN’T AFFORD THE STATUS QUO
Roughly 575,000 people in Delaware get health insurance on the job, where family premiums average $14,579, about the annual earning of a full-time minimum wage job.
Since 2000 alone, average family premiums have increased by 108 percent in Delaware.
Household budgets are [...]
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