Robert Reich explains why the president's August deadline is so crucial: If bills aren't passed in...
Category - Healthcare
Bad News for the Pig Man
Your tax dollars at work. Congress can't bother to get a healthcare reform bill completed before...
Rights and Benefits
Ezra Klein: Access to health care should not be dependent on the kindness of your employer. And...
Shrinkage
Health insurance industry insider Wendell Potter: The industry doesn't want to have any competitor...
Wait Times
From a reader about wait times for surgery in the United States: I'm 77 and after 12 years of pain...
The Public Option Saves Lives and Money
This is excellent news: According to a pair of Capitol Hill sources, preliminary estimates from the...
More Votes for the Public Option
We're getting closer... A band of 22 New Democrat and Blue Dog lawmakers say they support a...
Go Congressman Kucinich
I've been having this exact same conversation with wingnuts all week long: The general response...
Go Jane Hamsher
Watch this until the end: ThinkProgress points out that food is, indeed, a human right. A wingnut...
A Wingnut Email on Healthcare
I've received quite a few wingnut responses to my Huffington Post column, but this one is the most...
Evan Bayh the Insufferable
What a bastard: Evan Bayh, a moderate from Indiana, said he would not be inclined to vote to cut...
This Feels Good
It's about damn time: Progressive Caucus Co-Chairwoman Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) warned Emanuel that...
Rahm Emanuel (R-WTF)
Rahm Emanuel's rationale for supporting a trigger on the public option included, strangely, a...
Walking It Back?
The Politico reports that the president "walked back" Rahm Emanuel's statement about the public...
Thank You, Mr. Schumer
Benen believes -- and I agree -- that Senator Schumer is attempting to supplant the Coward Harry...
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
When I wrote last week that the president should vigorously step forward and push for the public...
The French
Krugman: After all, every other advanced country offers universal coverage, while spending much...
Go David Shuster
Bill Scher via Twitter: R my eyes & ears working? Did @davidshuster shove in Sen. Carper's face...
It's Who You Know
Ezra Klein writes that legislative influence, in addition to $1.4 million a day spent on lobbying...
Another Reason Healthcare Reform Might Fail
If you work for Congress, you have an excellent job waiting for you at various healthcare lobbyist...