One of the most interesting ironies within the healthcare debate is the most liberal healthcare solution, single payer healthcare, is the most fiscally responsible solution as well. You can find many details about the finances of single payer on...
Bill Moyers is possibly the last of the breed of journalists who carry the trust and respect of the people.
If you didn't see it last night, he used his show to host a screening of the film, based on...
One of the GOP's most diabolical tricks is to dumb down any debate in effect making it's orthodox right wingers believe that any government system that a high school dropout cannot understand is too complex a solution for American's...
Again we have another faux member of the Democratic coalition (Senator Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn.)), today claiming Congress should not use budget reconciliation for universal healthcare reform. Well that is flat out BS perpetrated by Republicans and conservative...
I previously had thought only conservatives revised history to fit the memes of the modern day but it seems like progressives are playing that game as well. We have all heard the right wing revisions of history like...
Blogs don't make the evening news; angry mobs do. Is Krugman, like the WH, trying to motivate the "progressives" to take to the streets, and be SEEN as well as heard?
Republican insanity and naked lust for power...with a beat!
As disgusting as the right wing claims and frothing at the mouth is, it is even more ridiculous when sung.
Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVAll9ThOxI
This weekend President Obama and the Kathleen Sebelius underestimated the public's passion for the public option not only with progressives but with the mainstream public. It was simply a major blunder even if they were just trying to launch...
Big Pharma is probably the most important branch of manufacturers that provide healthcare products to the healthcare industry. Along with universal healthcare reform we need meaningful pharmaceutical company reform. Drug companies are not worthless middlemen like private healthcare insurance...
One overlooked aspect of our disastrous healthcare system is the inherent lack of healthcare security which is a major destabilizing element in millions of Americans lives. Healthcare insecurity is not just the obvious concern of over 47,000,000 Americans, to...
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