Underneath the talking points, there was a theme from the Republicans: We do not want people with pre-existing conditions to be covered. They had to admit that in public. If you weren’t listening, I’ll try and find you the exact point where it came through loud and clear.
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I spent most of the day watching the health care summit President Obama held at Blair House today. I’ve drawn only a few new conclusions.
1)The process needs an independent, trained facilitator. The President isn’t one. He’s in favor of his own proposals; his party has a dog in the hunt. That reduces his credibility. It [...]
With the introduction of President Obama’s blend of the House and Senate health care reform bills, there’s been a flurry of activity in the Netroots over the missing public option. Several groups are mobilizing for it at the same time that key Senators who supported it in the past are quietly leaving it on the [...]
Medicare Part D is, indeed, a scam. I wasn’t sure until I cross-posted my piece from here on the Huffington Post and read the seventeen comments it got. One of the most interesting was from a pharmacist, who compared what he knew the costs of the prescriptions his dad paid were to what [...]
