The CBO is estimating that 2/3 of the U.S. population will have a Public Option available in their state, according to the Senate bill.
Unless I'm reading this breaking news wrong, this does not mean the Public Option will be...
UPDATE #3 HOUSE HEALTHCARE REFORM PASSES HOUSE 220-215 IN HISTORIC VOTE!
UPDATE #2 Anti-choice amendment passes 240-194 and Republic alternate "healthcare plan" rejected resoundingly 176-258.
UPDATE #1 based on whip counts by Democratic aids Politico reports the Dems have the votes...
President Obama's speech tonight was just the prescription Health Care Reform needed and made me remember how he inspired me during the election.
And Republican Rep. Joe Wilson who screamed, "YOU LIE!" in the midst of the speech was just...
Seriously, I am having doubts that any of this has anything to do with resolving the nation’s health care issues.
I see almost nothing that would substantively reduce the national cost of health care.
I am becoming convinced that about a...
In his slippery slope argument against the ACA, Justice Alito simply asks us to consider all the people who've been bankrupted and have lost their homes having to pay for their own sudden burial and the ongoing costs of remaining dead.
Yesterday morning, I opened my copy of The Guardian to learn that various tranches and services of the British National Health Service were being outsourced to private providers and, leading the fray for tenders, was none other than our...
Thought "The Death Panel" was a right wing hoax? Nope. The SCOTUS became a real death panel, allowing states to refuse expanding Medicaid to let the uninsured working poor die from medical neglect. The ongoing deaths of thousands of Americans will now be a dark legacy of The Roberts Court.
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The truth of what this bill really is and the destruction it would do, doesn't support its passage. Only lies and deceptions can be used to promote it. It's an $880 billion cut in health insurance subsidies for those who need it the most and an $880 billion tax windfall for the wealthiest Americans.
It is quite a challenge to sift through all the intentionally created myths about the Affordable Care Act to come up with The Top Five but these sure seem to be the top contenders.
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