From SocialismOrBarbarism on the Left Business Observer listserv
Obama at his “health care forum”–live, right now
“Those people who go to emergency rooms aren’t getting ‘free care.’ They are being paid for by people with insurance. Their ‘free care’ makes other people’s care go up, uh, $1000. So we are paying for those [poor, sick people] who [...]
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Screw health care for those irresponsible poor people, says Obama
Pelosi pulls the plug on health care reform
From TPM, a huge and now disillusioned supporter of heath care reform
Speaker Pelosi just said “I don’t see the votes for [passing the Senate bill] at this time.” In other words, plug pulled. Health care reform over.
Would have been nice to know back in January they didn’t have the fortitude for this.
Doug Henwood in a [...]
Media’s favorite healthcare analyst paid $392k by Obama Administration
Goodness, I’m sure that made Jonathan Gruber just a totally unbiased cheerleader for the health care reform bill.
Gruber’s explanation that “he disclosed this to reporters whenever they asked” is not very compelling. I don’t see how anyone even tangentially connected to policy work could fail to realize that this was a material conflict [...]
More ways the health-care bill will help create jobs and how status quo today is job-killer
On Christmas, I wrote an article called Health-care bill will stimulate economy and create tens of thousands of jobs.
Within hours it had gone semi-viral with over 3000 hits on the web. Progressive Democrats of America posted it on their home page and I cross-posted at Show Me Progress and Polizeros.
In it, I posed the question, [...]
US medical costs vs the rest of the world
Andrew Sullivan
This National Geographic chart, which I stumbled upon while reading that magnificent magazine on the airplane, truly blew me away. If anyone can look at this and not see a simply insane way to distribute health care, a system so inefficient no socialist country could ever replicate it, then they have stronger rationalization skills [...]
Health-care bill will stimulate economy and create tens of thousands of jobs
After a long arduous journey of being half-way there, the Senate finally passed a health care insurance reform bill on Christmas Eve.
How is it that throughout the entire health care debate the issue of job creation and economic stimulus has not been brought up?
The simple fact is, adding 30 million people into the health care [...]
Insurance company stocks explode upwards on expected health care bill passage
Intoxination brings us this illuminating chart (click to view it live).
Firedoglake. Ten reasons to kill the Senate health bill
This is blogging at its best. Hard core investigative reporting backed up by solid facts. Something our mainstream media should be doing but isn’t.
The Senate’s health care bill must be killed. Sign our petition to Congress and President Obama: We must do better for health care than this bill.
The Senate health care bill is an [...]
Flopenhagen
The US did as little as they could at COP15. Obama’s speech in Copenhagen today was tepid, and the pretend agreement just announced is way too little, with even the US government saying it wasn’t enough to stop climate change.
The health care reform bill as proposed is, I think, worse than nothing as it forces [...]
The Jones Report
We’re all familiar with the Dow Jones Report. What about a Jones Report? A report on the average American. Is she working? Does he have health care? Does the average American have basic access to the essentials of life?
Conyers: “I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House”
Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama’s weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview:
“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House,” Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show. “He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn’t even anything to write home about.”
“The [...]
Dobbs and Palin for President 2012: last gasps of obsolete GOP
A couple of days ago, I was enjoying a visit with two friends at Starbucks and a well-dressed man in passing, said hello. On his way out he commented offhand about the “nightmarish health care bill” that just passed the US House. He was afraid he’d lose his Medicare, and hated the idea of socialized medicine. [...]
4 arrested in sit-in outside Joe “I love health care industry contributions” Lieberman’s office in CT
Four people were arrested this morning during a sit-in in front of Senator Joseph Lieberman’s office in Hartford. The arrestees were among thirty demonstrators who sought a public meeting with the Senator to confront him on his stance on healthcare reform while at the same time accepting donations from the health insurance industry. Since [...]
Anti-health care Blue Dog ensnared in real estate deal with Big Pharm
Rep, Mike Ross (D-AK) sold the land his pharmacy was on to a major drug chain for way more than the appraised value. He then got considerably more for the pharmacy and a non-compete agreement. Two weeks after the sale, USA Drug contributed $2,300 to his campaign fund.
Did I mention Ross is chairman of [...]
The Obama Health Care Plan in 4 minutes
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