If you are not familiar with this phrase, you probably have not been checking your Facebook and Twitter accounts today. No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, join us in posting this as your status for the rest of [...]
Could someone please explain to me why three of the 11 most popular stories on TIME.com at the moment …
I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday–and the number of people who believe that the President has larded the government with communists (!) was astonishing. One woman said there were four known communists in the government and that she’d researched it on the internet. When I asked her afterwards, [...]
But not THIS ugly. This in from the AP: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – California authorities say a clash between opponents and supporters of health care reform ended with one man biting off another man’s finger. Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Frank O’Hanlon says about 100 people demonstrating in favor of health care reforms rallied Wednesday night [...]
Just when you thought the vultures had landed on a bipartisan health care deal, seems the three GOP senators haven’t totally walked away from the table. First, there was the news this morning on Olympia Snowe’s talks with the White House on a compromise and then Mike Enzi put out this statement: “My position has [...]
I just had a thought: With the Republicans pretty much out of the health care picture now–although one or two (the women from Maine) will be necessary to get the President’s proposals past the Senate–Barack Obamais free to reconsider how he’d pay for the expansion of coverage. That was an aspect of the bill that [...]
On the need for greater clarity from the President. A couple of notes: Print deadlines can be a pain in the butt: in the 24 hours after I wrote and closed this column, the Administration decided to do pretty much what I suggested–a speech to the Congress next Wednesday (just after my deadline, another headache) [...]
