Mitchell Bard, 11.23.2009
Writer and Filmmaker
I'm not saying I don't support this weak health care bill (it's better than nothing), but if it gets any weaker and cuts into the Constitutional right of women to choose, really, does the good still outweigh the bad?
Julie Menin, 11.16.2009
Host of "Give and Take," seen on NBC In New York and juliemenin.com
it should indeed be a jury of New Yorkers, the community who was most adversely impacted by the horrific events of September 11th, who decide Mohammed's fate.
Tom Andrews, 11.13.2009
Former Member of Congress, Maine
Put on your fear flack jackets because the right wing attacks are a-coming.
So if you haven't heard yet - it's official. So-called 9/11 mastermind Kh...
Linda Bergthold, 10.30.2009
Health policy consultant
Dr. Regina Benjamin has finally been confirmed for the post of Surgeon General. And the reasons for the delay have been varied, contradictory, and byzantine.
Linda Bergthold, 10.29.2009
Health policy consultant
There is something terribly wrong when a political minority can hold up a nomination that has the potential to affect a nation's health.
Peter Dreier, 10.20.2009
Peter Dreier is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College
Whoever picked the name "Humana" for the health insurance giant had a great sense of humor. Had the marketing genius in charge of picking a name for the corporation been more honest, he would have called it "Profita."
Ben Berkon, 10.17.2009
Comedy Writer/Blogger, SomethingYouShouldRead.com
In political news, Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, has publicly decided to sign the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, controversially depriving the United States of its poor health care.
Chris Weigant, 10.07.2009
Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
Michael B. Laskoff, 10.07.2009
"...content against obedience..." ––W.S.
Step one: Get yourself elected to high political office.
Step two: Find yourself someone to love other than your spouse. And as long as you're at it...
Steve Clemons, 10.02.2009
Publisher of "The Washington Note"
I suspect that Rep. Schock is going down to check out what is real and what is not in the mess of the Honduras coup and its aftermath -- but Jim DeMint is going down to "meddle."
Peter Dreier, 09.26.2009
Peter Dreier is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College
Then they came for the Center for American Progress, and the Democrats did not speak out -- because they were not the Center for American Program.
Dawn Teo, 11.23.2009
HuffPost Arizona Correspondent
Medicare officials have admonished one provider for using customer lists to engage in political advocacy and lobbying -- a policy shift that could establish new legal principles in First Amendment law.
David Dayen, 11.22.2009
Blogger fellow for Brave New Films
Shocking that Mitch McConnell would leap to the defense, Will Ferrell-style, of a health insurer based in his state which has feathered his nest to the tune of six figures, no?
Don McNay, 11.15.2009
Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.
Wall Street and Washington don't understand what is happening on Main Street. The people in Washington are pushing the line that they saved us from "something even worse." Like what?
Don Parker, 10.20.2009
Writer, Communications Consultant, Incurable Satirist
Amid the uproar over President Obama's grand scheme to use subliminal brainwashing to indoctrinate America's schoolchildren into his cult of personality, Republicans today demanded equal access to young minds so they could counterbalance the president's dangerous message.
Scott Lilly, 09.26.2009
Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
It's impossible to fashion a health care system that does not have doctors, medications, and hospitals -- but it is quite easy to imagine a system without private insurers. In fact, private insurers play little if any role in the health care systems of most countries in the world.
Richard Valeriani, 09.17.2009
Former NBC News correspondent
Town hall meetings on health care reform....Debate or Debacle? Media make sure squeakiest wheels get the grease.
Jake Brewer, 09.05.2009
Engagement Director for the Sunlight Foundation
S.482 is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and it's time the Senate picked this one off and let us move on to even more pressing transparency issues.
Rick Horowitz, 09.03.2009
Satirist and syndicated columnist
It's not just the bizarro "birther" brigades that are treating Obama as electorally illegitimate. Think about the way the health-care fight has played out recently.
Toby Barlow, 09.03.2009
Author of Sharp Teeth
When Obama explains how the U.S.'s health care can be fixed, he points to Canada. Sounds good until you consider that after Canada instituted its health care program, everyone in the country died.
Don McNay, 08.30.2009
Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.
I've had my own angry, screaming battles with my health insurance carrier. It seems everyone I've talked to has had a similar experience. I just don't see them marching on Washington about it.