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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Health Care'
Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.
December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
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 · Comments Off · 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 · 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
The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · 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 · Comments Off · 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
The Public Plan and Private Profit
October 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care
Sometimes we can become so involved with our own expertise that we can calculate ourselves out the door, down the street and into a trash bin. To use one example, why did we not see that President Bush and Vice President Cheney…which it seems now so crystal clear…had ulterior motives for attacking the country of [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care reform·health insurance·public option
The Two Big Issues: Jobs and Health Care Reform.
October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics
Sunday in October and Congress is back and pundits are shouting over one another on the morning talk shows. Even married political-pundit couples who sit before cameras and the husband says something and the wife contradicts him, regardless of whether what she has to say is true or based on earthly reality. It proves that [...]
Tags: Economics·free trade.·Health Care·health care reform·jobs·Politics·tariffs
Join In an Economic Revolution
October 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics
Rather than complaining about our lives, our incomes, our ability to maintain some kind of minimal lifestyle, it may be time to do what every good militant has done since before Lenin or George Washington….join up. We need to bite the bullet and become more active in some kind of populist group. Some may participate [...]
Tags: carbon tax·Economics·Health Care·import duties·lobbyists·Politics·President Obama·Republicans·tea parties
Dick Cheney and Failure On the Right
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics
Someone made an interesting and valid point on television recently…a significant event in itself. In one brief segment between pharmaceutical commercials for sexual member enhancement on Sunday morning, someone said–it doesn’t matter who because they are all dipping into the same well of nonsense–that we now have a partisan Democracy. That is to say, we [...]
Tags: Cheney·Health Care·health insurance industry·lobbyist·neocon·Neoconservative·Republican
Blue Dogs With a Yellow Stripe
September 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
Examples of courageous behavior: Soldiers going to the rescue of a downed comrade in the face of withering fire. A skilled pilot landing a huge plane on water to save the lives of all the passengers. The vote of a courageous politician who realizes that what he is doing is right but is also mortally [...]
The Choice Between Neoconservative and Progressive Becomes Clearer.
September 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Politics
There is no mystery about the difficult circumstances in which we find the American economy. Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan cut income taxes for the top bracket, multi-millionaires, from 70% at the top marginal rate, down to 28%, the country has run very large deficits every year. We have been running deficits in the $200 billion [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Bush administration·Democrat·economy·Health Care·jobs·Neoconservative·Progressive·stimulus
Health Care Reform Needs a Public Option. The Public Needs to Call Senators.
August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
Who is going to vote for the Public Option, and who isn’t? That is the question. Everyone who supports health care reform says that, without a public option health care reform will not reduce costs. That means it will be worthless. The key to universal health care and better, reliable health care is to reduce [...]