Heaven Or Health|Take Care Of Your Health or………….
Oct
27
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Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, and Ben Nelson seem likely to decide the fate of a heath-care reform bill with an opt-out public option. If all three vote for cloture – even if they then vote against final passage – the bill becomes law. Else, not.So what will they do? After extracting the maximum amount of “centrist” mileage and media attention by pretending to be undecided, they will all vote “Yes. ” Partly that’s because joining with the Republicans to prevent a straight up-or-down vote on
Oct
21
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Today on her radio program, Laura Ingraham interviewed guest Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and asked her about the ideological direction of the Republican Party. The pair discussed recent statements made by retired GOP Senate Majority Leaders Bill Frist (TN) and Bob Dole (KS) in support of some type of comprehensive health reform. Dole has called for Republicans to become engaged in the process, stating “ we’ve got to do something ” to solve the current crisis. Frist has endorsed the Senate
Oct
20
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Yesterday I noted a rather bogus attack on health care reform in one editorial based upon not including a fix to the Medicare payment formula in the costs of health care reform. As I described in the previous post, this is a long standing accounting trick used since the Republicans were in office and the costs of fixing this are unrelated to any added costs to the budget of health care reform. Jonathan Chait discussed this later in the day. He notes that conservatives are picking this up as
Oct
20
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One would believe that there is one thing that everyone could agree is unacceptable and that is rape. Anyone who perpetrates the heinous crime of rape should be dealt with in a court of law, not in some ridiculous corporate private arbitration. It is unconscionable that rapists can hide behind a corporate contract, especially when that corporation is receiving contracts from the federal government and is thus receiving taxpayers dollars. Look at the names below of the senators who voted nay
Oct
14
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Republicans argue against health care reform by arguing that we have the best health care in the world and we should not mess with it. The data already shows that this is not true . A new Pew Research Center survey also shows that many Americans do not believe this: According to Americans the United States does not have the best health care in the world. Most see our health care as average (32%) or below average (27%) when compared with health care in other industrialized countries. Only 1
