thinkprogress.org Cracks In The Iranian Regime After a week of protests in which millions of Iranians took to the streets to object to the results of the country’s June 12 presidential election, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Friday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won the election and warned opposition leaders — led [...]
Archive for June, 2009
24 Jun
Why critics of a public option for healthcare are wrong
saloin.com Those opposing a public option — Big Pharma, the AMA, the insurers — are doing so out of economic self-interest By Robert Reich Illustration by Zach Trenholm June 24, 2009 | Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America’s non-system of healthcare — private insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies and medical suppliers [...]
24 Jun
Ode To The Death Of Neda Agha-Soltan
OpEdNews June 24, 2009 By Allen L Roland Photo shows Neda Agha-Soltan moments before bleeding to death from a gunshot sniper wound on June 20, 2009, as her music teacher and others try to resuscitate her. The bloody video of Neda’s violent death on Saturday has circulated in Iran and around the world on the World Wide Web. It has made [...]
24 Jun
Clean Economy For 48 Cents/Day
thinkprogress.org ENERGY Clean Economy For 48 Cents/Day Since Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), conservatives have grown increasingly hysterical in their opposition to clean energy and green jobs. Rep. “Smokey” Joe Barton (R-TX) — a prominent global warming denier and top recipient of dirty coal [...]
24 Jun
HEALTH CARE Beyond The Public Option Tonight, ABC News will host “Prescription for America,” a discussion with President Obama about his plans to reform the health care system. Critics have charged that Obama’s proposal to enact a new public health insurance plan to compete directly with private insurers would lead to a “government takeover” of the [...]
21 Jun
FINDING HELP TO GET PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
CMA Weekly Alert June 19. 2009 I. Introduction This Weekly Alert focuses on programs that help Medicare beneficiaries acquire necessary medications, although many of the programs discussed are not limited to that population. Due to the recent economic downturn, millions of Americans are looking for ways to cut costs. Unfortunately, some have been forced to [...]
21 Jun
Retirees may well worry about health-care reform
RETIREMENT HEALTH-CARE COSTS ARE STEEP — ARE YOU PREPARED? By Robert Powell, MarketWatch Jun 17, 2009, 5:09 p.m. EST BOSTON (MarketWatch) — If things weren’t bleak before, they certainly are now. Men and women retiring today will need truckloads of money to pay for health-care expenses over the course of their retirement, according to a [...]
17 Jun
Rethinking Financial Regulation
hinkprogress.org ECONOMY Rethinking Financial Regulation Today, the Obama administration is rolling out its plan for reforming the financial regulation system. In an effort “likely to result in the most sweeping overhaul since the 1930s,” the administration intends to address some of the regulatory gaps and oversights that contributed to the current economic crisis. “The goal [...]
17 Jun
HOW YOU CAN TRIM MEDICARE PART B PREMIUMS
If family income has been reduced by recession, you may be overpaying for Medicare Part B. By Susan B. Garland Kiplinger.com June 17, 2009 For the third year in a row, higher-income Medicare beneficiaries received notice that they’ll pay more in Part B premiums than other seniors. But this year, there’s a catch: The size of [...]
17 Jun
Obama’s Health Plan Needs Spending Controls, CBO Says
Health-Care Reform 2009 CBO chief Douglas Elmendorf’s statement is likely to complicate the task of enacting broad changes. (Jahi Chikwendiu – The Washington Post) By Lori Montgomery, Shailagh Murray and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, June 17, 2009 President Obama’s plan to expand health coverage to the uninsured is likely to dig the [...]
17 Jun
The hurdles to expanded healthcare
SCOT LEHIGH By Scot Lehigh Globe Columnist / June 17, 2009 THE GREAT healthcare debate is now officially on, and though the goal of dramatically expanded coverage is in distant view, perils and pitfalls abound along the path forward. One came Monday in the form of a Congressional Budget Office analysis saying Senator Kennedy’s legislation [...]
17 Jun
~Limbaugh Nailed This One~
Nothing Democrat or Republican about it, nothing conservative or liberal, nothing religious so I don’t think it will offend anyone, unless you happen to be a member of congress. Their approval rating is in the low 20′s so I think I am fairly safe. Even from the mouths of abrasive talk show hosts, oft-times, come [...]
