“If you get to the final point and you are a critical vote for health care reform and every piece of evidence tells you if you support the bill you will lose' [...]
As health care reform inches closer to reality, a massively important question becomes even more pressing: Will ObamaCare kill the sorts of medical innovation that makes the United States the leader in bringing new treatments, technology, and procedures to market?
“America is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have a national [...]
"If you get to the final point and you are a critical vote for health care reform and every piece of evidence tells you if you support the bill you will lose your job, would you cast the vote and lose your" [...]
Democratic leaders secured the last votes needed to move ahead on historic health care reform legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday night showdown on President Barack Obama's top domestic policy initiative.
In long-awaited speeches, two centrist Democratic senators said they would stand with their party and [...]
Huge news for health care reform:
Sen. Ben Nelson announced Friday he will vote for a cloture motion Saturday that clears the way for Senate debate on health care reform.
Nelson, a centrist Democrat who holds one of the key votes required to prevent a Republican filibuster, said the Senate needs to [...]
Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette drew venom from conservative and Catholic bloggers yesterday for comments she made to ABC on the role Catholic bishops should be playing in shaping health care reform. But the venom was based on misquotes of the ABC interview published at The [...]
Over at HumanEvents.com, Connie Hair has writte one of the most interesting “inside baseball” political articles I’ve ever read, in this case about how the Senate might maneuver to pass health care “reform”.
It’s a must read for anyone who wants to understand what’s about to happen:
See “Alan Frumin May Determine [...]
.. “information” on their affiliated website Colorado Connections. Fox News who have fought (other people’s) tooth and (other people’s) nail against not just Health Care Reform, but Health Care In The First Damned Place.
Hubris of such a high order it deserves a suffix and a prefix “MegaHubrisosity”.
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Congress to Healthcare Market: Drop Dead, economics Professor Mark J. Perry summarizes “market-based healthcare solutions have gone largely unnoticed, despite the fact that they have successfully lowered medical costs and improved both access and quality of service.” He describes the success of:
Retail clinics Retail clinic-hospital partnerships
A new website creating quite a splash gives you the good stories and the horror stories of real people dealing with our health care system.
As the health care reform debate continues in DC, it seems that every progressive congressman and senator has no shortage of tear-jerking stories [...]
Dick Durbin says:
Last month Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced a merged Senate health care bill -- a bill that includes a public option. And last weekend, the House of Representatives passed an historic health care reform bill that included a robust public option as well.On Saturday, by a vote of 220-215 with the support of just one Republican, House Democrats passed their version of health care reform, a $1.3 trillion (and that will be too low, and just for the first decade) monstrosity of taxes, penalties, bureaucracies, and European-style socialism that will, if it [...]
Denver, CO - Reps. Diana DeGette, Ed Perlmutter, Jared Polis and John Salazar, all Democrats, voted with the majority as the U.S. House of Representatives set the standard for real health insurance reform when it passed the Affordable Health Care [...]
10:00: The debating on the amendments is over. Voting now on the Stupak anti-abortion amendment, which bars federal subsidies from going to plans that cover abortion, which essentially prevents coverage for abortions in any of the new health care plans.
10:05: NO up 90-73. 11 Dems voting Yes. Some GOP [...]
The natives are becoming increasingly restless, and last Tuesday’s election results demonstrated just how troubled they are. The various talking heads tell us that various reasons pushed voters over the edge: health care reform, cap-and-trade, spending, the economy, etc. Boiled down, the real people back home are alarmed at the [...]
Pajamas Media was kind enough to publish my article about the Democrats’ “Bizarro” health care reform. Here’s the first few paragraphs:
Expect less, pay more. It’s not the slogan for some “Bizarro World” Target store in a [...]
Forwarded video, a little under three minutes of last night's "Tea Party Express" protest in downtown Denver. Apparently beginning with the approach of a comparatively small group of pro-health care reform demonstrators, the encounter becomes progressively angrier until Tea Party organizers step in and beg attendees, "don't give us a" [...]
This past weekend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instructed pastors at parishes across the country to distribute material urging Catholics to oppose the health reform bills making their way through Congress for allowing public funding of abortions. Priests were to insert the Bishops Conference pdf [...]
Is Nancy Pelosi’s 2,000-page version of Obama Care “the worst bill ever” — as the editors of the Wall Street Journal describe it? I doubt it. After all, that’s some pretty stiff competition. But if you’re busy having to defend the so-called health care reform legislation from the [...]
Is Nancy Pelosi’s 2,000-page version of Obama Care “the worst bill ever” — as the editors of the Wall Street Journal describe it? I doubt it. After all, that’s some pretty stiff competition. But if you’re busy having to defend the so-called health care reform legislation from the [...]
