Author - Bob Cesca

Healthcare

Health Insurance Stories

From a health insurance insider: For two years I was the executive director of MCC-Wichita, a managed mental health (HMO) subsidiary of CIGNA. We did very good work, and we were very profitable (26%...

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Wingnuts

Good Job, Senators

From a letter to Janet Napolitano (link goes to Malkin's site) signed by Senators Coburn, Brownback, DeMint, Burr, Murkowski, Inhofe, and Vitter, griping about the DHS Right Wing Extremist report:...

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Morning Joe

Dick Debate

I love these staged Morning Joe debates in which Joe cajoles an expert to come on the show to, first, stroke Joe for his paint-by-numbers cookie-cutter issues book, then to "debate" one of the...

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Radio Show

Radio Show

Me and Lee Stranahan discuss the shooting at the Holocaust Museum and the general state of far-right insanity. Listen live at 10 p.m. EDT. Call the show: (347) 945-5235 Or participate in the comments...

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Economy

Fox Business Fail

This is a remarkably epic fail video. Clearly none of the anchors has any clue what a "stay" is, but what's utterly damning is that they're dishing out financial advice and yet they can't hold it...

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Quote

Quote of the Day

"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." —Charles Krauthammer accidentally admitting the truth

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Morning Joe

Civil Discourse

Joe Scarborough claims to be all about civil discourse -- not resorting to hyperbole or personal attacks. Except, of course, when he does it. All the time. This morning, for example, Joe thinks Jon...

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Healthcare

The Canada Lie

Contrary to the lies you might've heard on Fox News this morning, Yglesias cites actual evidence indicating that Canadian healthcare outcomes are about the same -- if not slightly better in some...

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Morning Joe

Dick Pillars

Remember when Joe Scarborough and his people spent an entire show ripping the Obama campaign for the greek pillars on the stage at Invesco Field? Here's the cover of Scarborough's cookie-cutter book:

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