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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: health care reform
Morning Awful: Steve King
Remember, an accident victim in the ICU should have to answer questions about their immigration status — but God forbid they should be able to purchase health or auto insurance. Via ThinkProgress.
Health Care Law Saves Californians $283 Million
California Blue Shield customers are getting a $283 million credit on their bills thanks to the ACA: Although Thursday’s action affects only nearly 2 million of Blue Shield’s policyholders in California, other consumers could be getting similar paybacks under President … Continue reading
The Sheila Jackson Lee Nontroversy
You have a right to health care access, i.e. the right to be insured. If you must buy insurance — if there’s a mandate for individual responsibility — then you have the right to buy a policy. That’s under the … Continue reading
Senior Drug Culture and Movement Politics
From Silver Buzz Cafe, numbers showing that American seniors are still confused about what is in the health care bill. None of their expectations is even remotely true: 72% expect reductions in their choice of Medicare Advantage or Medigap insurance … Continue reading
Archives: Tort Reform is a Red Herring, Not a Silver Bullet
This ran at Huffington Post on September 10, 2009. Attempting bipartisan outreach, the president said last night he would consider tort reform as part of a general health care overhaul. Pledging to initiate pilot programs aimed at reducing “defensive medicine,” … Continue reading
Archives: Attack of the Town Hall Zombies
This post ran Sep. 1st, 2009 at Huffington Post and included my very first music mash-up. Republicans talk about H.R. 3200 as if it were a marauding army of zombies. They say health care reform will eat your grandma and … Continue reading
Archives: Parker Griffith Throws Red Meat
This originally ran at Huffington Post August 27th, 2009 with the editor’s title “Rep. Griffith Panders to Reform Detractors at Town Hall.”It was my HuffPo debut as part of Arianna’s “Off the Bus” effort. Monday, August 24th–Give Parker Griffith (D-AL) … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Judicial Activism
So a US District Judge has struck down the entire health care law on the sole grounds of the mandate, saying it is not hyperbolizing to suggest that Congress could do almost anything it wanted. It is difficult to imagine … Continue reading
True Stories Of The Health Care Patrol
Last Thursday, I arrived at the VA clinic precisely on time and waited exactly forty-five seconds before being called to the back. As a nurse drew four small vials of blood with only the tiniest of stabs, I told her … Continue reading
How Stupid Are Insurance Companies?
Stupid enough to hike rates 40% while the country is arguing about a health insurance reform bill? Stupid enough to find a loophole about insuring sick kids and trumpet it to the media not a week after the bill is … Continue reading
Dear Chris Reichert
Sir: I read yesterday of your apology to Robert Letcher, the wheelchair-bound Parkinson’s victim you mocked during a health care bill protest last week. That hateful and harmful action — one which propelled the public narrative to turn against the … Continue reading
