Why I'm Not Joining the Call to "Kill the Bill"
Instead of sending more "Kill the Bill" emails, we need to turn our attention now to leaders in the House, insisting they stick to their guns and improve on what the Senate has passed.
Instead of sending more "Kill the Bill" emails, we need to turn our attention now to leaders in the House, insisting they stick to their guns and improve on what the Senate has passed.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics
From the moment he was elected, Obama has governed not as a progressive liberal but as a corporatist liberal. Progressive liberals hoped Obama would be like FDR. Instead, he's been like Bill Clinton on steroids.
Bob Cesca | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
A contradiction problem has been a feature of Bush Republicanism for a while now, but it's only during the past year that the gap between contradictory statements has narrowed down to just 24 hours.
Mike Lux | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
I am still in a haze over the deal struck last night on the public option. Clearly, there is both a lot of bad news in the reports coming out so far, and some good news as well.
Michele Swenson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Obama is trapped in the same kind of thinking that initially demoralized his hero Abraham Lincoln, who ultimately rejected that kind of thinking, regained his morale, and fought against what was morally wrong.
William Fisher | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Now, the first thing I want you to know is that I'm no health care policy expert. Far from it. But, like the rest of us, I have a body and a mind tha...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The insurers have demonstrated that there is no reason any more to cultivate their support. That being the case, Congress has a new chance to do the job right.
Mike Lux | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Open up the perfectly good public option we have -- Medicare -- to anyone. That would actually strengthen Medicare because younger, healthier people would be joining the risk pool.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Obama created the space for the Democrats to work. He outlined a lot of stuff, but did not get specific in the semantics. He opened up the lane once again for prima donna Congresspeople to drive in for the layup.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
We need to see President Obama's teeth Wednesday night. I want to know that there is some steel behind the cool facade.
John Neffinger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The New York Times recently reported that the Obama administration is heeding a list of six lessons from previous efforts to reform health care. Unfortunately, the three most crucial lessons were left off the list.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Everyone loves Medicare -- so much so that the Republicans are using it as a club to kill this complicated and expensive health care reform scheme.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Regardless of which side of the religious and socio-political spectrum a child's parent or guardian is on, that child is innocent. Children are not billboards for hatred, malice and lies.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Most of us will do damn near anything to get out from under the thumbs of the multi-millionaire CEOs who are running our current insurance programs. Sign me up!
Harry Fuller | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media
In their wildest dreams the Republicans cannot imagine people hating healthcare that is no longer only for the rich and the well-employed, courtesy of the insurance industry.
Robert Naiman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
If it were up to the House, we wouldn't be talking about dropping the public option for health insurance. Maybe we'd be talking about Medicare for All. That's why we need more progressive fighters in the Senate.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics
One of these days, a national leader will embrace national health insurance and fight for it. Until then, we will keep paying more money for less care.
Maggie Mahar | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
Forces calling for health care reform are gaining momentum. But if by "reform," they simply mean "universal coverage," I have to disagree.
Michele Swenson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.
John Geyman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Last week's action by Congress to override Bush's veto of the Medicare bill was a landmark step toward reversing the tide of privatization of the program over the last three decades.
Wendell Potter | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics