Today in a CSPAN interview, NC Senator Kay Hagan gave her views on the Senate health bill now being debated, including her thoughts on the lack of a public health care plan option and Medicare buy-in:
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Larry Kissell, the first-term Democrat representing the NC-8, voted against the health insurance bill which the U.S. House passed and which is several light years better than the hardened turd favored by Joe Lieberman and Barack Obama in the Senate.
Trying to find some relief from marinating our noggins in the corporatocracy of Washington, D.C., and the craven Democratic Senate, and trying to avoid the growing thought that Democrats are no more capable of reform than the goddamned party of Virginia Foxx, I turn for relief [...] FamiliesUSA issued a new report today detailing the effect of the Senate health bill on increasing coverage in North Carolina. Nearly one million North Carolinians would gain coverage under the bill. If we don’t do anything? 254,000 of us lose coverage by 2019.
Share and Enjoy:[...] In the wake of recent revelations, the Wilmington daily has called for R.C. Soles not just to to bow out of the 2010 race for his Pender-Columbus-Brunswick senate seat, but to resign from it:
Soles’ reputation – always a little suspect since his first indictment in the Colcor investigation of [...]
Despite its serious flaws, exorbitant costs, and rising unpopularity, the Senate’s health care legislation may still move forward. Democrats apparently believe that delivering to their left-wing base must be their highest priority, whatever the cost.
The Jacksonville Daily News recommends a different course of action:
Liberals argue that President Obama ran [...]
Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has picked up the endorsement of two national women’s organization’s in her bid to win the May Democratic Senate primary.
She has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women and the Women’s Campaign Forum, Rob Christensen reports.
The group’s national affiliate, the National Women’s Political Caucus, [...]
At a recent press conference calling for action from the Senate on health reform, Triangle small business owner Ashley Ascott spoke briefly about her business and the need for health reform:
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Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has picked up the endorsement of two national women's organization's in her bid to win the May Democratic Senate primary.
She has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women and the Women's Campaign Forum, Rob Christensen reports.
During her Senate campaign part of Hagan’s platform called for a Medicare buy-in proposal so that people without insurance between the ages of 55 and 65 could purchase coverage through the popular public program for the elderly.
The proposal has attracted renewed attention as a possible compromise measure [...]
Fellow progressives, my name is John Marty; I am entering my 24th year in the Minnesota Senate, where I have fought for social and economic justice since day one.
In the Senate, I've championed LGBT rights (I am chief author of marriage equality legislation), I've fought for government ethics reform, I've' [...]
With the death of the debate over the public option Senate leadership has turned its sights to a hefty expansion of government programs already in existence – namely, Medicare and Medicaid.
As seen by the numerous closed door meetings in the past two weeks, Democratic leaders are set on ensuring the [...]
Senator Jim DeMint has taken the lead in the Senate over the past couple of years to promote responsible government spending and sound the warning siren on the waste and excess in the Federal government that is slowly bankrupting our nation. It is for that reason that I am supporting [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr will be one of the speakers Tuesday at a rally in the Capitol by opponents of the health care legislation being pushed by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Senate leadership.
Burr, a Republican, will join radio host Laura Ingraham, Sens. [...]
This is the third of three blog posts with audio files from the leading Democratic contenders in the U.S. Senate campaign. Up now is former state Sen. Cal Cunningham.
[...]This is the second of three blog posts with audio files from the leading Democratic contenders in the U.S. Senate campaign. Up now is Sec. of State Elaine Marshall.
[...]This is the first of three blog posts with audio clips from the leading Democratic contenders in the U.S. Senate campaign. First up is Kenneth Lewis, a Durham lawyer who has never run for office before.
[...]The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) released a report Friday analyzing the impact of Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill currently under consideration in the Senate. It found that the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009” will in fact have a considerable financial impact [...]
Key point from Mark Binker’s write-up of the U.S. Senate race:
None seemed happy with the idea that Congressional Democrats could give up on the public option — a federally run health insurance plan that would be available to those who don’t have coverage. Creating such a publicly run player [...]
Senate Leader Marc Basnight may not have a favorite political analyst, but he has a least favorite: John Davis.
Davis is the former director of the North Carolina Forum for Research and Economic Education who last year incorrectly predicted a Republican takeover of the state senate, Mark [...]
