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Category: National Politics

  • One Billion Dollars

    As H.R. 3200 plods it’s way through Congress, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has emerged as a stumbling block. The opposition, led by Democratic Representative Mike Ross (AR-04), centers around Medicare payments to rural communities and the assurance that the measure will be deficit neutral. Ross is a member of the Blue Dogs,…

  • Healthcare and The Land of the Disintegrating Talking Point

    Is it just me, or are conservative TV talking heads and Blue Dogs the only people who are sticking to the talking points set up to kill Healthcare reform? It seems like it. Hell, even Republicans are having a hard time staying on point. Case in point, tin foil hatter and Minnesota Representative, Michelle Bachman…

  • Defining Anti-Choice

    I don’t get emails from people challenging the words I use, well, ever, but just the other day I did receive the following email from someone who apparently didn’t want to comment on the post. Upon reading your article “Chickens and Eggs and Calls to Murder,” I wanted to bring a particular point to your…

  • Chickens and Eggs and Calls to Murder

    “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, as the old question goes. If you’re a radical anti-choice/anti-contraception advocate, the egg is the same thing as a chicken. It’s being called the ”personhood strategy”, and the language is pretty broad. From the proposed ballot language: “the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being from…

  • Healthcare Debate to Heat Up in July

    There are a lot of things going on with the effort to reform the nation’s healthcare. Probably more than I’ll be able to distill here. Here are some of the highlights. Some of you may remember that Democratic House leaders pledged to address healthcare by July 31st. For those of you without the benefit of…

  • Profit Over Wellness

    A little birdy dropped this fine piece of testimony in my lap overnight. In it, former CIGNA executive Wendell Potter describes just how important profit is over care in the current healthcare system in the US. From the testimony: The average family doesn’t understand how Wall Street’s dictates determine whether they will be offered coverage,…