“Hello, this is Congresswoman Judy Biggert. I’m calling to warn you about Medicare…” How lucky am I? My Congresswoman, Judy Biggert was taking the time to call me personally about the dangers of Medicare. She called poor-little-old-me to ask if I wanted to join in on a conference call about health care reform. She is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'health care reform'
Republicans Panic, Call Voters: Be Afraid of Health Care Reform!
March 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
Tags: Add new tag·Congresswoman Judy Biggert·Democratic health care reform·health care reform·Medicare·Neoconservative health care plan·Obamacare·Repbublican phone calls·Republican obstruction·Republicans Panic over Health Care Reform
Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, jobs, Politics
Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than are necessary for the workforce right now? Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Sounds ridiculous. Apparently not to Senators John Kyl of Arizona and Sentor Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Bunning held up unemployment [...]
Tags: Bush recession·domestic manufacturing·Economics·health care reform·job creation·jobs·national debt·recession·Social Security and Medicare·unemployment
More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe
March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics
The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish. Be assured of one thing. We are in no danger of becoming [...]
Tags: Bush administration·health care lobby·health care reform·Neocon lunatic fringe·Neoconservative propaganda·obstruction·propaganda·Republican propaganda·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
The Communist Fallacy
March 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Media, Politics
You might want to take everything you know about our country and have a second look. We all used to participate in the defense of our country. Now we have young people, mostly poor, trying to get ahead, who risk their lives for a college education while others, not risking their lives, go to college [...]
Tags: Communist·CPAC·Democratic·health care reform·Neoconservative propaganda·racist right wing media·Senator Bunning·Socialist·tea baggers·tea party
Torts, Filibusters, Health Care Reform and Disastrous Supreme Court Decisions
March 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Courts and the Law, Health Care, Politics
We are now well into this session of Congress. The Senate has already begun a pace of filibusters that will exceed that of the last session, which was already double the highest number ever. It is very clear. The Neoconservatives are committed not to the constituents who elected them but to large industrial corporations, or [...]
Tags: health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·Neoconservative·Republican health care plan·Right Wing·Supreme Court
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Security·tax cuts·tax reform·wars
Do Americans Really Want Health Care Reform?
February 25th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
We have spent an entire year listening to politicians talk about health care, argue health care, debate health care and even do their best to obstruct health care. When Senator John McCain and then Senator Barack Obama were campaigning on the issue of health care 76%, over three-quarters of all Americans surveyed said that they [...]
Tags: health care reform·Obamacare
The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, energy, Health Care, jobs, Politics
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 decided [...]
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
Health Industry Greed and Democratic Reform
February 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…. Yes, indeed. It was the best of times for the health care industry in 2009. And the worst of times for their customers. And it continues in 2010. Let’s get right to it. Wellpoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna and Humana…the top five health [...]
Tags: Democratic health care plan·health care debate·health care fraud·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance industry·health insurance industry greed·House health care plan·Obamacare·President's health care plan·Republican health care plan·Right Wing obstruction·Senate health care plan
The Neoconservative Republican Agenda Is Quite Simple. Lie and Lie Again.
February 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics
In the cool, rarefied air of Senate multi-millionaires it may be possible to conduct policy discussions with great civility. At least on the non-producing Democratic side. On the other side, the Neocon Obstructionist Party smiles, makes sarcastic comments in the legislative chamber and then votes against everything. No exaggeration. They have voted against everything by [...]
Tags: health care reform·lobbyist-paid politicians·lobbyists·neoconservative agenda·neoconservative lies. Neoconservative·Republican lies·stimulus plan
The Economy Is In Big Trouble—Part II, Our Diminished Future.
February 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
To understand your life in the future, you must understand that what happened in the last 8 years, particularly in the last year of the Bush Administration, as described in Part I, is irreversible. We cannot go back and sue all those Tom DeLays or Dick Cheneys, or even whatever number of Democrats joined in [...]
Tags: Bush recession·corporate campaign contributions·deficits·Economics·future of the economy·health care lobby·health care reform·jobs·Neocon obstructionism·Supreme court and corporate campaign contributions·the economy·the national debt·unemployment
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
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Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform
December 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · 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