Disturbing lack of public interest. There's nothing scientific about this analysis, but here's a...
Category - Healthcare
Remove Schumer from the COCS
This sounds great, as long as he sticks with it: The healthcare reform bill that emerges from...
My Response to the President
President Obama said: "We shouldn't be focusing resources on each other," Obama opined in the call...
Grasshole
This is shocking. The following is an actual exchange with Chuck Grassley at a town hall in Waukon...
Bloomberg Endorses the Public Option
Michael Bloomberg: Today, most Americans get their health coverage from private insurers. A public...
Quinnipiac: 69 Percent Support the Public Option
BAM! July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Sixty-nine percent of Americans support creation of a government-run...
More Great News
If you recall, the CBO scored the Kennedy-Dodd HELP version of healthcare reform legislation with...
The AMA Now Supports the Public Option
This is terrific news: (CNN) — The new president of the American Medical Association, which...
Public Option Now
If for no other reason than to help this woman pay for her cancer treatment. From today's town hall...
(Cough) Douchebag (Cough)
Joe Lieberman pretending to be thoughtful about his opposition to the public option when, in fact...
It's The Public Option or Nothing
Ezra Klein lays out the three degrees of the public option: According to early documents and...
It's Everyone
I think there still might be a misperception about the push for the public option -- that it's all...
Thank You Very Much, Spineless Dems
For the usual spineless reasons, senators like John Kerry and others floated support for a trigger...
Health Insurance Monopolies
Literally. Josh Marshall: ...the opposition to a so-called 'public option' comes almost entirely...
Cut the Bipartisanship
Senate Republicans will never vote for a healthcare reform bill. Never. So putting this bipartisan...
Dial Early and Often
Dianne Feinstein, a member of the Coalition of the Corrupt and Spineless, doesn't seem to care for...
More Rockefeller on Healthcare
Yesterday, I posted a quote from Senator Rockefeller as the Quote of the Day. After re-reading the...
Colbert on the Republican Healthcare Plan
Stephen Colbert's infomercial for the GOP healthcare reform plan.
Some Perspective on $1.6 Trillion
Via Ezra Klein, here's economist Uwe Reinhardt on the cost of healthcare reform: A price tag of $1...
Specter Supports the Public Option
At least, he does now. Though it's unclear what exactly this means. "Schumer has it right about...