Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category:
HOLLINSHEAD: Dems Need Their Own Attack Machine
Kevin Hollinshead, Progressive
The Democrats need to go on the offensive on health care reform.
ROGERS: Obama’s Vote of Confidence – America’s First
By Conor Rogers, Moderate Republican
If Congress can’t pass healthcare, America may find itself in a situation like we’ve never seen before – a President dealt a no confidence vote by a system that has no remedy for the situation.
McCAFFREY: The Most Expensive Violin
Kathleen McCaffrey, Libertarian
No healthcare system is perfect. However, the way to debate healthcare reform is not through dueling anecdotal evidence.
HOLLINSHEAD: Boy’s Health Insurance Company a Real ‘Death Panel’
Kevin Hollinshead, Progressive
Five year-old Kyler VanNocker of Edgewater Park, NJ has neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly type of childhood cancer that attacks the nervous system, leaving his body riddling his body with tumors. But Kyler’s health insurance company denied him the proven-effective treatment and decided to place their profits above a doctor’s opinion. To deny Kyler coverage was to prescribe his death.
MARIN: John Boehner’s Guide to the Healthcare Summit
Paul Marin’s ideal GOP strategy for facing the President’s healthcare summit and capturing the president’s bipartisan aura.
ROGERS: President Obama, (R-DC)
Conor Rogers, Republican
In tonights State of the Union, the President put himself more in line with Senate Moderates Susan Collins and Ben Nelson than with Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
ROGERS: The People Are Coming – In a Pickup
Scott Brown’s Senate victory spells disaster for the Democrat agenda, but the Democrats have no one to blame but President Obama, Martha Coakley and themselves.
MARIN: The Myth of 1994
Paul Marin, Liberal Republican
Congress will regain its bipartisan problem-solving spirit only after legislators are punished for their cynical, partisan behavior — in other words, when the myth of 1994 is shattered.
ROGERS: What If Scott Brown Actually Pulls This Off?
An analysis of what a Republican victory in Massachusetts would mean for healthcare, The United States Senate, President Obama, and the American political climate.
MARIN: Bribes We Can’t Believe In
Paul Marin, Liberal Republican
Before the State of the Union address, President Obama will have likely signed comprehensive healthcare reform legislation — legislation secured through political bribes. A bipartisan approach is necessary to prevent political bribes from reoccurring the in the future.
AUTIELLO: A Return to Statesmanship
Nick Autiello, Moderate Republican
The American statesman is dead. The level of political debate in the United States today has sunk to an all time low, and it should be troubling to all Americans, regardless of political party.
HOLLINSHEAD: Limbaugh Loves (Socialized) Medical Care in Hawaii
by Kevin Hollinshead, Progressive
Upon his discharge from the hospital after being admitted for chest pain, Rush remarked that “there is nothing wrong with the American health care system. I received no special treatment.” Here, he inadvertently stumbled upon the real point here—American medicine is indeed a godsend. At least, for those who can afford it. No one in Hawaii is given special treatment, because, yep, everyone can afford it.
Carpenter: Stop Playing Games with Our Health
The public option is dead and the debate continues. The reality remains that Americans still need health care reform and it’s time to deliver it.
SIEG: Overcoming Path Dependence in Healthcare
Emily Sieg, Staff Writer
Ideology: Social Democrat | Writing From: Washington, DC
The long and tumultuous strive for healthcare reform in the United States could prove one of the greatest social experiments [...]
BILBO: Bart Stupak’s Coat Hanger Amendment
The Stupak Amendment would limit choice and drive abortion access back into the 1950s.