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health care reform Archive
The GOP’s Health Care Hypocrisy
Posted on November 20, 2009 | 10 CommentsThe sheer volume of the nutty screaming from the Right can obscure the rank hypocrisy of the GOP’s attacks on health care reform. So let’s clear up a few things....
Newsaholics Anonymous
Posted on November 16, 2009 | 6 CommentsI used to be a news junkie when I was home with toddlers. I watched the morning news, the Today show, then the five o’clock news, the 5:30 national news,...
America Regrets We’re Unable To Lunch Today
Posted on November 16, 2009 | 11 CommentsSo, the nation’s weightiest campaign arms dealers waltz about the Big Easy talking like Emily Post and asking the rest of us to put our napkins in our laps. That’s...
Perry Plays the Socialism Scare Game
Posted on November 12, 2009 | 12 CommentsLike a too-slick Marvel Comics villain, the famously well-coiffed Rick Perry stands in his expensive tailored suit (Italian? English Socialist Tweed?), and leads his Midland Country Club audience in a...
Moonshine
Posted on November 9, 2009 | 13 CommentsWilliam Tyndale once ridiculed the poor logic of a 16th Century blowhard by writing that, “the proof of his whole conclusion…hangeth by moonshine.” Tyndale of course, ultimately became a victim...
Is There a Hero in the House?
Posted on November 7, 2009 | 13 CommentsThe U.S. House of Representatives is debating the health care reform bill today. If you have a strong stomach, you can watch the debate on CSPAN. As the drama unfolds,...
Talk Backwards
Posted on October 13, 2009 | 7 CommentsNow the insurance industry expects us to believe they are worried health care reform will force them to raise premium rates, earn more money, have big parties, and, in the...
Where Do We Get the Public Will?
Posted on October 9, 2009 | No CommentsKathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, finished her eloquent plea for education reform. She turned to the Dalai Lama and said, “How do we build the...
One Doctor’s Orders: 8 Ways to Treat Health-Care Reform
Posted on September 28, 2009 | 2 CommentsOur health care system is in critical condition, and Congress and the Obama administration have the opportunity to put it back in the recovery room. Here are the key issues I would like to see in a final health care bill.
One Reason Texas Democrats Will Win in 2010
Posted on September 23, 2009 | 4 CommentsTexas Republicans are the advance political guard of a health insurance industry that’s sucking the lifeblood from our state and nation. Texas has more uninsured citizens – close to 6...