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  • Kucinich: Health insurance "reform" increases privatization, redistributes wealth upwards, and isnt better than what weve got


    CorrenteAuthority Authority: 617
    Who knew? But its nice to see it all put together : REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Because it’s not the best we can do. It mandates people purchase private insurance. It is a $70 billion giveaway to private insurance companies and locks in this system that’s the problem, not the solution.
    19 hours ago
  • False Prophets


    Regaining the CenterAuthority Authority: 127
    The misguided and the disingenuous are all over the news media speaking with the sincerity that we were used to seeing with ace chicken hawk, Dick Cheney. Senators Bluster and Fluster are speaking out daily with words like “dead on arrival”, or “I can not support that provision”. And from the side ...
    19 hours ago
  • Congressman Kucinich addresses vote on H.R. 3962


    Press ReleasesAuthority Authority: 446
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich after voting against H.R. 3962 addresses why he voted NO, stating: "We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the ...
    20 hours ago
  • Liberal’s Approach to Health Care Reform Made Abortion Controversy Inevitable


    The Alan Katz Health Care Reform BlogAuthority Authority: 117
    Democrats paid a heavy toll to keep health care reform moving forward. They were forced to accept substantial and virtually unprecedented limits on abortion coverage in order to get the Affordable Health Care for America Act through the House of Representatives. This result should awaken them to the need to rethink ...
    1 day ago
  • Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?


    The Political BridgeAuthority Authority: 145
    by Marcia Angell, M.D. distributed by Huffington Post and Common Dreams (Marcia Angell, M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.) The House health reform bill finally passed after one of Congresss longer, less enlightening debates. Two stalwarts of the ...
    1 day ago
  • Dennis Kucinich: Insurance Companies are the problem


    Dandelion SaladAuthority Authority: 539
    Dandelion SaladelectdennisNovember 09, 2009Congressman Dennis Kucinich on MSNBC, The Ed Show Monday, November 9th, 2009 more about “Dennis Kucinich on MSNBC, “The Ed Show”“, posted with vodpod***Dennis Kucinich Explains Why He Voted Against The Health Care BillMoxNewsDotComNovember 09, 2009 more about ...
    1 day ago
  • Strategery


    CorrenteAuthority Authority: 617
    [I thought Id update and re-post this, since with HR3962 our GENIUS Dems have really outdone themselves their indefatigable efforts to preserve the two-party system by giving the Republicans ever better odds in 2010 and 2012. Not that it matters to them; theyre all made in Versailles by now anyhow. --lambert] ...
    1 day ago
  • LOC 11/9/2009: Junkfood Or Jihad?


    Left Of Center PodcastsAuthority Authority: 136
    It’s Monday. Say, did anything important happen over the weekend? We cover health care, and the big mistake the GOP made this weekend that isn’t getting much play. and unnamed Muslim calls in to complain that he can’t blow us all up, and Nine goes off on Nancy Graceless vis a vis the Anthony Sowell case in ...
    1 day ago
  • Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now! – House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill


    Dandelion SaladAuthority Authority: 539
    Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Nov. 9, 2009House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill with Amendment Backed by Anti-Abortion LawmakersThe bill has been described as the biggest overhaul of the country’s healthcare system since the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. Among those who voted no was Ohio Democrat Dennis ...
    1 day ago
  • Healthcare Reform: Is it worth it for small business?


    Zane SafritAuthority Authority: 128
    Sometime this weekend, I lost track, our House of Representatives, approved a landmark health care reform bill Saturday night by a 220-215 vote. Many provisions in this bill are landmark. The one we’re talking about today is the provision that mandates all employees, with any and every business, receive health ...
    1 day ago
  • Meanwhile single payer activists continue to mobilize


    CorrenteAuthority Authority: 617
    High Noon in Baltimore at CareFirst Blue Cross-Blue Shield So far there have been 26 sit-ins in 23 cities across the country. 138 arrests have occurred while over 200 people willingly risked arrests. At some point this will gain critical mass.
    1 day ago
  • Rants: Making a Federal Case of Health Care


    Rodak Riffs...Authority Authority: 117
    X The following consideration of the constitutionality of a proposed national health care system was originally composed in the comment section of Kyle Cupps excellent blog, here . I am an advocate of a fully-nationalized, single-payer health care system. I think that to question the half-assed compromise system ...
    1 day ago
  • Obama’s Broken Promises on Healthcare


    OntheWilderSideAuthority Authority: 508
    from Speaker Pelosi: Please Stop Bullsh*ting Us on Dropping State Single Payer AmendmentBut President Obama has broken numerous other campaign promises made by Candidate Obama on health care reform:1. Candidate Obama promised to end backroom deals with “stakeholders” like insurance companies, drug companies and ...
    1 day ago
  • BBC Starts In Tennessee…


    BuelahMan's Redstate RevoltAuthority Authority: 429
    … to see what is obvious to the rest of us.   http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/the_p_word/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002600/10002666.stm Story and audio at above link… Barack Obama was elected on 4 November 2008 after a campaign that promised change. One year on, BBC’s Newsbeat traveled across the country to ...
    1 day ago
  • Industrial Worker (IWW Newspaper) interviews Noam Chomsky


    Dandelion SaladAuthority Authority: 539
    Dandelion SaladChomskyanNovember 08, 2009The editor of the Industrial Worker, Diane Krauthamer, spoke to Noam Chomsky at his MIT office in Cambridge, MA, on October 9th, 2009.The Industrial Worker is the official newspaper of the IWW (the Industrial Workers of the World), a radical union.For more info, please ...
    2 days ago
  • The Weiner Not-Quite-HR676 Amendment


    CorrenteAuthority Authority: 617
    John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are correct, it isnt HR 676 and its not as good as HR 676 . It is however a very good compromise, and for all the incrementalists and political realists out there in TVland, it provides a good foundation to build on. What it is is HR 676 with a chunk of HR 3200 added on at the end, ...
    2 days ago
  • Congressman Dennis Kucinichs (D-Ohio) Reasons for Voting NO to H.R. 3692--The Affordable Health Care for America Act


    The Political BridgeAuthority Authority: 145
     From Congressman Dennis Kucinichs Website November 7, 2009 Congressman Dennis Kucinich after voting against H.R. 3962 addresses why he voted NO, stating: "We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system ...
    2 days ago
  • Single Payer Activists have Problems Supporting President Obamas Health Care Reform


    The Political BridgeAuthority Authority: 145
    On Thursday, Physicians for a National Health Program, in an e-mail message to its members, endorsed the view that "no bill is better than a bad bill." "Even the public option in the House is a sham," the group said on Thursday. PNHPs John Geyman called on the House to shelve Obamacare. "The ...
    2 days ago
  • Democrats Give Up on Single-Payer Universal Health Insurance


    Queer NotesAuthority Authority: 121
    The few remaining Democrats who were pushing for at least a vote on "single-payer" (Medicare for All) universal health insurance have given up and called off votes on their amendments: Rep. Weiner Gives Up Single-Payer Amendment to Back House Party Leaders Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers: Time is Not Right for ...
    2 days ago
  • Dems Sell Women’s Rights Down River Of Health Care Denial


    Feminist Peace NetworkAuthority Authority: 565
    A few thoughts on last night’s health care reform vote and the Stupak Amendment.  First of all, 21 out of the 39 Democrats who voted for Stupak then proceeded to vote against the health care reform bill. In other words, women’s reproductive rights were severely compromised to appease 18 members of Congress.  ...
    2 days ago

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