Former DNC chair Howard Dean has the public’s option for dealing with Blue Dog Democrats who vote against the public option: “I do think there will be primaries as the result of all this, if the bill doesn’t pass with a public option,” Dean said, in a phone interview with the Huffington Post. The...
Read more →Ezekiel Emanuel, the oncologist and bio-ethicist is the Death Panels Czar according to the crazies. According to medical professionals he is a good doctor and a leading bio ethicist: “The aim of health care is curing disease, relieving pain and suffering, promoting public health, pursuing research to improve health, and so on,” he wrote....
Read more →This just isn’t right: For the second day in a row, thousands of people lined up on Wednesday — starting after midnight and snaking into the early hours — for free dental, medical and vision services, courtesy of a nonprofit group that more typically provides mobile health care for the rural poor. Like a...
Read more →Craig Miller is one of the Health Care Town Hall constituents who was just driven so CRAZY by the socialism that he had to be one of the folks who confronted Arlen Specter in Lebanon, PA. He actually wanted to deliver a list of ways he believes President Obama has broken his oath. Like...
Read more →“And Democratic Party officials enlisted in the fight by the White House acknowledged in interviews that the growing intensity of the opposition to the president’s health care plans — within the last week likened on talk radio to something out of Hitler’s Germany, lampooned by protesters at Congressional town-hall-style meetings and vilified in television...
Read more →One of my state’s Senators, Arlen Specter, was approached at a town hall in Lebanon, PA (near my hometown of Harrisburg, Pa) by a constituent who was angry about…well, I don’t know what about. I am not just being a snide jerk about that either, I really can’t tell because the screaming citizen, Craig...
Read more →Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who has been shut out of the 6 person, non representative health care negotiations on the Senate Finance Committee, doesn’t seem to be happy about the exclusion or the proposals being mulled over by the Baucus/Conrad/Grassley led group: Rockefeller has sparred privately with Conrad and Baucus during their Democrat-only Finance...
Read more →Whenever Reid appears, it is evident why the Congressional Democrats can’t effectively manage the Blue Dogs, communicate to insured Americans the bad deal they are currently getting, and execute an agenda all of them campaigned on for 2 years? accused the media of inflating the importance of an...
Read more →Katrina vanden Heuvel attacks the notion that the “Blue Dog” congressman are centrists or moderates. She rightly points them out as right of center. At this moment — when 72 percent of the nation supports a public plan option and 14,000 people lose their healthcare every day — the House Blue Dogs and conservative...
Read more →The Lewin Group? Independent fact finding consultancy? Not quite. Ed Schultz called this garbage out on his show. It goes to show that there is a problem with so many talk shows accepting this “Lewin Group says healthcare is fine the way it is” GOP party line without asking “what is this ‘Lewin Group’”?...
Read more →Atul Gawande’s Article in the June 1st New Yorker The Cost Conundrum asks why some hospitals “over utilize”: Sirovich asked doctors how they would treat a seventy-five-year-old woman with typical heartburn symptoms and “adequate health insurance to cover tests and medications.” Physicians in high- and low-cost cities were equally likely to prescribe antacid therapy...
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