November 27, 2010 – 4:35 pm
Hey, you know that awesome super duper socialized health care system in Britain, which we are supposed to follow? Yeah, about that Three-quarters of all stroke victims are missing out on treatment which would drastically improve their chances of recovery. A report on the shocking extent of Britain’s ‘postcode lottery’ of NHS care revealed that […]
November 26, 2010 – 7:48 am
Perhaps there is a reason that bills should be read and thoroughly examined prior to putting them up for a vote? Partisan tensions on Capitol Hill are delaying efforts to fix an error in the federal health care law that could cost Children’s Hospital Boston and others like it millions of dollars in added drug […]
November 21, 2010 – 9:11 am
Seriously, who could have foreseen this coming? When Congress passed the health care law, it envisioned doctors and hospitals joining forces, coordinating care and holding down costs, with the prospect of earning government bonuses for controlling costs. And they would all join hands, sing kumbaya, and have a unicorn smoothie (Coke will soon be taxed […]
November 18, 2010 – 9:45 pm
Gallup has an interesting poll up regarding health care Americans name healthcare access, followed by costs, as the most urgent health problems facing the country today, as they have in recent years. However, with the renewed debate over healthcare reform in 2009, and passage of President Obama’s reform bill in 2010, mentions of both issues […]
October 15, 2010 – 4:37 pm
James Clyburn (D-SC6) shows once again why Democrats are going to get trounced: they really don’t understand the mood of the American Public Democrats could revive the public healthcare option if they maintain their majorities in Congress, the House Democrats’ third-ranking member said Friday. “Reelect me, keep Democrats on the field. And when we come […]
October 4, 2010 – 9:15 am
You know which side is going to be the bad guy, right? Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from. The $80 million spent so far by groups outside […]
October 3, 2010 – 9:28 am
Who would have thought it? It’s a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s health care remake, a lifeline available right now to vulnerable people whose medical problems have made them uninsurable. But the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan started this summer isn’t living up to expectations. Enrollment lags in many parts of the country. People who could […]
September 30, 2010 – 8:40 am
They best be careful, otherwise they could receive a threatening nasty-gram from Kathleen Sebelius, a subpoena to appear on Capital Hill, or be part of an Obama campaign trail whine, or even the subject of a weekly address blameathon: McDonald’s May Drop Health Plan McDonald’s Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its […]
September 24, 2010 – 9:20 am
At least he isn’t wearing the mom jeans President Obama is trying to reconnect with the American people, and he is using that most American of settings, the backyard, to do it. Actually, because of his policies, the most American of settings nowadays seems to be the unemployment line. Anyhow Mr. Obama emerged from the […]
September 23, 2010 – 9:56 am
Everyone else has chimed in on the subject, including much criticism from some Conservatives, so, my two cents CBS News has obtained a final draft of House Republicans’ legislative agenda for the next Congress, a 21-page “Pledge to America” that they will formally unveil Thursday morning at a Virginia hardware store. “The need for urgent […]
