So…we did it. We passed health care reform. It is simple and basic stuff. The Neocons would like to make it more complicated than it is. Here is what you get and when you get it.
This year–
Young adults will stay on parents’ medical plan if they wish to age 26.
Insurers cannot cancel policies of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Health Care'
Health Care Reform and the Fight for American Democracy
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Tags: Fascist Party·Health Care·health care reform program·political thugs and violence·Politics·Right Wing groups·White Supremacists
Health Care Reform or Obstruction. Whom Should You Trust?
March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Politics
On the question of health care, in the absence of actually looking it up yourself, it all comes down to: whom do you believe?
Do you believe the Democrats who have created the health care plan? One could assume that they created it as something for which they will be praised. They certainly realize that [...]
Tags: Democratic health care reform·Health Care·health care reform·Republican obstruction
The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs
As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]
Tags: clean energy·economy·energy·food banks·Health Care·health care lobby·health care reform·homelessness·hunger·jobs·reconciliation·Rupert Murdoch·stimulus·Supreme Court·tea parties·tent cities·unemployment·unemployment insurance
How to Tell the Neocons Without a Scorecard: Rep. Judy Biggert.
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
We have a huge problem in this country. It is a problem of recognizing what kinds of people our politicians really are. Are they moderate or are they conservative? A man climbs into a pickup truck and merges images of Jack Kennedy with his own. Suddenly he is a moderate. He goes to Washington as [...]
Tags: Health Care·lobbyist pandering·Neocons·Neoconservative
Are Neoconservatives Making Us a Laughing Stock Around the World?
February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
I am sure that Senator Mitch McConnell, whom some pundit called, I believe, a “turtle-hybrid” recently feels that he has accomplished quite a bit for his Party this last year.
The Neoconservatives, despite repeated and repeated and frustratingly, boringly repeated efforts by the President to have them join in, be part of the government of [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Health Care·health care debate·lobbyist pandering·lobbyists·Neoconservatives·obstruction
David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, General, Politics
“There you go again…” as a famous “B” movie actor once memorably said…memorable because he happened to be President at the time. Oh yes, we really did have an actor as President. But he was also a union president at one time. Granted, it was a union of actors, but he was elected.
One [...]
Tags: AARP·elderly income·Health Care·income inequality·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative budget planning·retirement·Right Wing·Social Security cuts·tax cuts·tax hikes·tax increases
The Myth of the American Political Center
December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing much talk about the “American Center,” the supposedly independent political middle. The fact is that there is no political middle, polls notwithstanding. The only poll that matters, politicians will tell you [...]
Tags: Health Care·Media·media and politics·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
Right to the end, the Neoconservative Obstructionists in the Senate fought their hardest for the health insurance industry, trying to get every benefit they could and putting pressure on all Democratic Senators with any political vulnerability.
They fired salvo after salvo at health care reform. They said that the American People were basically ungrateful to [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care lobby·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neoconservative·obstruction
Neocon Senator Lindsey Graham and Petty Piddling While Rome Burns
December 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina likes to parade himself as a man who would consider options and act in a bi-partisan manner. He made a big show of voting for an impeccable Supreme Court Candidate, Judge Sonya Sotomayor, a woman of almost unparalleled accomplishment. Big deal. Most over-the-road truckers I know would have made [...]
Tags: Health Care·health insurance industry·health insurance lobby·Neoconservative·Senator Lindsey Graham
Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Americans used to be winners. Now we are losers. The current crop of middle-aged Americans are so far from reality that it almost makes a grown man…of which there are fewer and fewer…cry. We started out a year ago electing a man as President who said that he would initiate the process of creating a [...]
Tags: Congressional debate on health care·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska·Senator Blanche Lincoln·Senator Evan Bayh·Senator Landrieu·Senator Lieberman·Senator Mark Pryor
How About This: Reform or Die!
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics
Of course, we’re all going to die some day anyway. But health care reform and Republican, that is Neoconservative Obstructionist, opposition, have a lot to do with how soon we’ll die. And what about the death knell for the private health insurance lobby? The appearance of the grim reaper has sent the health insurance business [...]
Tags: Burr·Grassley·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care plan·health care reform·Lieberman·Lunatic fringe·McConnell·Obama health care plan
Health Care
November 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care
Over the next month…we hope and expect…the Senate will debate health care. That is, they will try to pass the reform of health care and health insurance and a whole new system of health care delivery for Americans. They will debate the so-called Obama plan, the health care plan of the Democratic Party. There is [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·Obama·Obama health care plan·Republican health plan·tea parties
The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the members in the House of Representatives of the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party spent an entire day doing their best to obstruct and prevent legislation. But the Affordable Health Care for America Act passed by 220 to 215.
It was bi-partisan. One Republican voted with the Democrats. And 39 petty, cowardly [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Health Care·health care reform·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Neocon Republicans·Republican health care plan·tea parties
Tax the Rich.
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance the budget since before Ronald Reagan. After Ronald Reagan’s cutting the tax rates of the top income brackets by 50% and quadrupling the military budget in the early 1980s, we have [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·tax cuts·taxes
Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former respected status and sold his character and reputation to the highest bidder. In Lieberman’s case, his reputation was earned as a supporter in his early career of issues such as civil [...]
Tags: filibuster·Health Care·health care debate·health insurance industry·Lieberman·lobbyists·Neoconservative·Republicans·Right Wing