I watched the ABC healthcare special last night from beginning to end, including the overflow into the Nightline slot. Perhaps the most frustrating bit was when Ron Williams, the chairman and CEO of...
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HAARM - "Fire Care"
Dump The Sick
A former senior executive with Cigna, Wendell Potter, testified on the Hill today that his former employer routinely "dumped the sick." "[T]hey confuse their customers and dump the sick, all so they...
Radio Show Open Thread
Me and Stranahan on the internet radio! Live show begins at 8PM EDT. Listen live here. Tonight! Allena Hansen -- the woman who was mauled by a bear, and then mauled by her health insurance carrier...
WTF?
Just look. Didn't Bill Hicks do a bit about this exact thing? The punchline was: "More Snickers! More Coke!"
Doof Quote of the Day
"Americans don't want more government in health care." —Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Americans don't want more government in healthcare. Except the 72 percent of Americans who do.
Family Values
Steve Benen: In a strange and meandering press conference, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) explained this afternoon that he'd been "unfaithful" to his wife, after developing a "relationship"...
Scoldborough
Via Paddy, here's Scoldborough and Matthews debating healthcare reform this morning: Joe likes to say that he's opposed to the Bush administration spending, but he supported almost every individual...
New Member of the Coalition
Until we hear otherwise, Rahm Emanuel joins the Coalition of the Corrupt & Spineless. Via Greg Sargent: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met last night at the U.S. Capitol with Senate...
Ignore, Ignore, Ignore
Nobody likes the Republicans. CBS/NY Times 28 favorable NBC/WSJ 25 favorable Pew 29 congressional GOP leader approval Research 2000 24 GOP favorable ABC/WaPo poll 36 approval While the Republicans...
Okay, This Is Just Weird
So he wasn't hiking naked on "hike naked" day. Was it "Douchebag Sailing" day in Argentina? Gov. Mark Sanford arrived in the Hartsville-Jackson International Airport Wednesday morning, having wrapped...
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Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine (HAARM) "Messaging session"
Worst Person
Richard M. Nixon in newly released White House tapes: "There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape." How many ways is this awful? While...
Answer for Amato
Amato asks: Why do we have to hear Republican objections to health-care reform all day long on TV? Answer: Bathtubs and boners. The healthcare industry finances a considerable chunk of cable news ad...
Ah Screw It, Schumer's Back In The Coalition
You know what? Senator Schumer is just watering down the public option with Conrad's stinky co-op crap while paying lip service to a robust public option. Schumer ought to be standing pat on the...
Quote of the Day
"If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care, if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government -- which they say can't run...
Here Comes The Sludge
Sorry. That was an awful headline. Not quite as awful as this: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Clean Water Act does not prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from allowing mining waste to be...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Health care reform is important, but it is not worth bankrupting the country over." —David Brooks Healthcare is bankrupting the country.
Conrad's Transparent Hackery
Kent Conrad was on MSNBC earlier telling Norah O'Donnell that the reason he came up with the weak, destined-to-fail "co-op" plan is to formulate a compromise that would appeal to Republicans. This is...
Super Stupid
I love it when the white supremacist "learn the language" crowd can't effing spell. To wit, here's Pat Buchanan and his "white nationalist" buddy Peter Brimelow at Buchanan's Building A New Majority...