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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

From MattStaublePhoto.com slideshow

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 [...]