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  • The People Want Single Payer; Congress Will Not Consider


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    The people want a single payer system but the Congress will not even discuss such a plan.   »  noticia original
    7 hours ago
  • Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement


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    19 hours ago
  • 1:19 a.m.: Senate Dems win key 60-40 vote on health care


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    Dandelion Saladby David LightmanMcClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON — The Senate early Monday voted 60 to 40 to cut off extended debate on the Democratic-authored health care overhaul bill, the first major step toward passing the measure later this week.The vote, which saw all 58 Democrats and two independents vote to ...
    1 day ago
  • Giving up already?


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    This is good... Hopes Dim, G.O.P. Still Vows to Fight Health Bill By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CARL HULSE A day after Senate Democrats said they had a health care overhaul deal, Republicans vowed to continue their fight but acknowledged their chances of stopping passage had faded. This is not. No Fight ...
    1 day ago
  • The Night Before Christmas


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    (With apologies to Clement C. Moore and good poets everywhere)‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the SenateNot a creature was stirring, not a Byrd, not a Bennett;The Solons’ stockings were hung in the chamber with care,In hopes that St. Nick (or his lobbyist) soon would be there;The senators were ...
    1 day ago
  • Meanwhile in California ...


    CorrenteAuthority Authority: 628
    Single Payer Health Care Forum - Jody Reid speaks the State Single Payer Bill Single Payer Now held its annual Potluck and Health Care Forum December 19 in San Francisco. Hear Jody Reid, the Executive Director of the California Association of Retired Americans (CARA), speak on current efforts to pass SB 810, the ...
    1 day ago
  • Bernie Sanders: Revolution Now in Primary Health Care


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    Dandelion SaladStartLoving2December 19, 2009C-SPAN more about “Bernie Sanders: Revolution Now in Pri…“, posted with vodpodseeBill Moyers Journal: Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner on Healthcare ReformKeith Olbermann’s Special Comment: Not Health, Not Care, Not Reform single payer healthcare HR 676 S 703Posted in ...
    2 days ago
  • Kaiser Family Foundation: side-by-side comparison of health insurance proposals


    popular logisticsAuthority Authority: 421
    The Kaiser Family Foundation has created a web page which permits side-by-side comparisons of every health-care proposal currently on the table , including that by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT via Brooklyn, New York) and that of the Republican Study Group. I note those because Im taking a guess that those ...
    2 days ago
  • Getting To 60 On Health Reform, Reid Got Ben Nelson But Held Onto Bernie Sanders, Too


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    In reaching the magic number of 60 Democrats to support his healthcare reform legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid picked up crucial support from conservative holdout Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. But on his left, Reid also apparently held onto independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as well. As Reid has ...
    2 days ago
  • A Loss


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    It appears near certain that the public option or anything that puts pressure on insurance companies to reform through competition is dead in the health care reform bill Congress is currently debating.  For the insurance industry, this was do or die.  Any type of “best in class” heath care would mean an end to ...
    2 days ago
  • Can Democrats Avoid a Populist Health Care Rebellion


    America For PurchaseAuthority Authority: 106
    “Expanding and improving Medicare so it covers all Americans is the only way to avert this populist revolt.”
    2 days ago
  • Bill Moyers Journal: Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner on Healthcare Reform


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    Dandelion SaladBill Moyers JournalDecember 18, 2009Amidst fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to health care, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street’s power over the federal government.via Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | ...
    3 days ago
  • Late Night: Wanted: A New White House Communications Director


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    Continue in the faith, stable and steadfast? (St. Paul by Comper; photo: Lawrence OP) After reading Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s piece in the New York Times on the “liberal revolt on health care” that is stinging the White House, I have come to the conclusion that President Obama might be in need of a new ...
    3 days ago
  • We didnt get Single Payer. So now what.


    California GreeningAuthority Authority: 127
    We still dont have a health care solution. We still have politicians like John McCain talking about our having the best health care system in the world, even though the objective results of that system are not so good. I listened to Shields and Brooks discuss this on the Newshour tonight. I thought David Brooks ...
    3 days ago
  • Netroots Not So Crazy In Waiting To See The Final Bill Before Worrying About Whether To Support It


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    From Kos ~ What bill do you think youre supporting? Were at the point, I think, where you strip this thing of anything remotely controversial and pass whatever is left -- maybe tougher rules against rescissions, some regulatory reform, etc. But as far as substantive reform, we live in a legislative ...
    3 days ago
  • Congress Makes Health Insurers’ Christmas Merry


    Cats WorkingAuthority Authority: 120
    By Yul Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) tried to introduce a bill for single-payer healthcare to Congress, only 700 pages, compared to that 2,000-page monstrosity Harry Reid loves. Why so short? Because Sanders omitted 1,300 pages of loopholes to protect drugmakers, insurers, and every other leech feeding off the ...
    3 days ago
  • Health Bill Fleecing "Dwarfs" AIG, Continues Dean (So Not the "Good" Threatened by the Perfect!)


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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121601906.html Howard Dean: In Washington, when major bills near final passage, an inside-the-Beltway mentality takes hold. Any bill becomes a victory. Clear thinking is thrown out the window for political calculus. In the heat of battle, ...
    3 days ago
  • LieberCare Is a Dead End for Real Reform


    FiredoglakeAuthority Authority: 707
    photo: Rayne for Firedoglake This should have been a great time to deal with health care reform. We have a Democratic Congress and a smart new President who campaigned on the issue. We know that the current health care system is unreasonably expensive. The health insurance companies are weak, offering a good target ...
    3 days ago
  • Health Care: Senate Bill Must Not Pass


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    By Randy Bayne Yes, I said it. Health care insurance reform, as it is presently constructed in the Senate bill (HR 3590), must not pass. Following the lead of Keith Oberman , I repeat what Churchill said after Munich, “I will begin by saying the most unpopular and most unwelcome thing: that we have sustained ...
    3 days ago
  • Marathon Reading of Single Payer Amendment, Union Square, NYC


    Green Party New YorkAuthority Authority: 116
    Contact: Call 917-825-3562 or email Michael if you can participate!FRIDAY ACTION 9am-7pm: Marathon Public Reading Of Senator Bernie Sanders’ Single Payer Health Care Amendment @ Union Square in NYCThe Senate denied Single Payer a vote, so we’re taking it to the street!On December 16th the US Senate was to hold a ...
    3 days ago

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