Tag: health care

Blogger: GOP health care proposal amounts to ’sweatshop insurance’

According to blogger Bruce Webb, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s proposed amendment to the health care reform act is “a fricking nightmare.”
“It is worse than I could have imagined,” Webb writes. “Someone tell me I have got this wrong. Or remove all sharp objects within my reach. Because they cannot be this brazen.”
Webb explains [...]

Dean: Even the weakened House health care bill ‘is real reform’

Lawrence O’Donnell, substituting for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown, spoke on Thursday with former Governor Howard Dean about the relatively weakened version of health care reform that is now moving through the House of Representatives.
Dean’s reaction to the House bill was, “It’s not the best we can do, but it’s a very good start.”
Leaders of [...]

Pelosi ‘thanks’ insurance companies for heckling her

As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was unveiling the Affordable Health Care for America Act Thursday morning on the steps of the Capitol, someone started apparently heckling her through a loudspeaker.
With Democratic members of the House of Representatives standing in rows behind her, Pelosi had just stated, “Today, we are about to deliver on [...]

Glenn Greenwald: White House should put serious pressure on Lieberman

Sen. Joe Lieberman has announced that he might filibuster any health care reform bill that includes a public option, but MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow finds Lieberman’s motivations something of a mystery.
For one thing, Lieberman has stated that he opposes the public option because it is a vast new entitlement program that would either be paid for [...]

Rep. Grayson on GOP plan: If you get sick, ‘die quickly’

As debate rages over Democratic proposals for health care reform, Republicans have been coy when it comes to revealing their own ideas. However, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) believes he has the GOP plan figured out.
“It’s my duty and pride tonight to be able to announce exactly what the Republicans plan to do for health [...]