Susie Madrak has some great news on the Canadian reimportation issue -- directly from the White House: I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they would be submitting an HHS bill in the near future...
Author - Bob Cesca
Cut Nelson Loose
Ben Nelson clearly smells blood in the water and is now overreaching. Jed Lewison reports: Nelson is now demanding that the bill be "scaled back" to cover fewer than the 30 million promised by Pres...
Shrill the Bill
Paul Krugman explains the agonizing process of supporting the bill and seriously disputes the notion that we're anything like the liberal supporters of the Iraq invasion. Detailing the agonizing...
Medicare and Reconciliation
Cenk wants a Medicare buy-in for everyone passed via reconciliation: But here is a radical new idea - how about we just do Medicare buy-in for anyone who wants it and not bother to pass any...
Morning Awesome
Lieberman is just as douchey in puppet form. Nevertheless, this is brilliant.
Quote of the Week
"As a United States Senator, member of Congress I'd rather deal with the reality that a lot of people who are hurting out there, there are a lot of people who desperately need health insurance and...
Angry People All Around!
So I've had a chance to make some cursory rounds through the tubes and people are still really angry and shouting about killing the bill. I thought there'd be a chance that, by now, we'd simmer down...
Franken Blocks Lieberman
I've been away from the tubes for half the day, so it was a pleasure to come home to this: McCain! RRROOOOOOWWWR!
Republican Family Values
Stay classy, Andrew Breitbart!
Dramatic!
The jobs bill passed the House last night. In a nail-biter. The bill passed 217-212, but when the time on the clock expired, it was losing 208-212. A few minutes later, when it hit 214-213 and then...
Evil Mandates, Part 2
I think I should clarify that I've never been a huge fan of mandates. In fact, I wrote a pretty dramatic Huffington Post item a few months ago in which I made a case for opposing them -- an argument...
Evil Mandates
Mandates are suddenly the devil. Even the progressive movement's favorite presidential candidate in 2008 devilishly included individual mandates as a component of his healthcare reform plan. Like all...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "Meet Me on the Equinox" I have no idea what the Twilight thing is all about, but this is a fantastic song.
Howard Dean's 2004 Healthcare Plan
Dean's 2004 plan was solid, but the following two provisions sound like the Senate bill: Establish a Universal Health Benefits Program (UHBP), offering a choice of private insurance plans identical...
Bonus Quote of the Day
"I'm all for a loud, angry left. If nothing else, we need it to balance out the loud, angry right. But there's a fine line between being constructive and destructive. This latest gambit, I think...
Preexisting Conditions
I'm watching Wendell Potter on Countdown. He and Keith, who have both been heroes in this fight, are talking about how the Senate bill will charge people with preexisting conditions "up to 50 percent...
New Huffington Post Column
I'm Really Pissed Off About Health Care Reform Enjoy and Digg and Twitter often!
Reform vs. Not Reform
Steve Benen makes an uncomfortably good point here: What's more, let's not forget that the existing Senate Democratic plan -- with no public option and no Medicare buy-in -- is already far more...
Take that Deal
As difficult as it's been to stomach the compromising and Liebercrat wankery, I simply can't disagree with this: To put this a bit more sharply, if I could construct a system in which insurers spent...
No Second Chances
For the last eight years, we've taken pride in our ability to embrace objective reality, as opposed to the far-right which operates based on superstition and bumper stickers. So here's the objective...