December 16, 2009 at 19:50:41 Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/16/09: By David Swanson opednews.com The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Wednesday another $130 billion for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and (it goes without saying) Pakistan, money that will be used to continue the wars and to escalate the war in Afghanistan. In [...]
Archive for December 17th, 2009
17 Dec
The Democrats’ Health ‘Reform’ Bill: Kill It Before It Comes to Life!
OpEdNews December 16, 2009 By Dave Lindorff Give credit to Howard Dean. This still practicing physician, former governor of Vermont, former chair of the Democratic Party and former Democratic presidential candidate has called for progressive members of Congress in both houses to join their Republican colleagues in killing what he rightly says has become “an [...]
17 Dec
767 Pages of Single Payer
Swampland A blog about politics. 767 Pages of Single Payer Posted by KATE PICKERT Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 12:58 pm 32 Comments • Trackback (3) • Related Topics: congress, health care, senate, bernie sanders, single payer, tom coburn Heeeeeeeere we go. Right now in the Senate chamber, GOP delay tactics on the Democratic health care [...]
17 Dec
The Progressive Case For Passing The Bill
thinkprogress.org HEALTH CARE The Progressive Case For Passing The Bill After months of debate, countless revisions, and significant right-wing obstructionism, the Senate is just days away from its self-imposed Christmas deadline to pass a health care reform bill. Since the public option and Medicare buy-in provisions were dropped, the bill has faced criticism from some [...]
17 Dec
Health-care bill wouldn’t bring real reform
By Howard Dean Thursday, December 17, 2009 If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers’ monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers [...]
