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A 17 year-old South Carolina boy has been awarded $10M after his insurance company dropped him because he tested HIV positive. South Carolina’s supreme court has ordered Fortis Insurance to cough up $10 million for wrongly revoking coverage of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. It is the most an insurance company has ever been ordered …

The House of Representatives voted 240-179 (pretty much right along party lines) to formally rebuke Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for his outburst during President Obama’s speech on health care reform. Whereas on September 9, 2009, during the joint session of Congress convened pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 179, the President of the United States, speaking at the invitation of the …

Edward Kimmel of Takoma Park, Maryland took his life in his hands by marching into the teabaggers in DC waving a “Public Option Now!” flag. Park Service police had to rescue Kimmel and escort him out.

Tea party protest organizer Mark Williams calls Obama “Our Indonesian Muslim Racist-In-Chief.”

“I want the government out of my Social Security.” And of course, the guy who supports English-only has a misspelled sign.

Free Republic founder Jim Robinson attended today’s “anti-Obamacare” rally in Washington DC on his Medicaid-provided wheelchair. Robinson does not know the meaning of irony.

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) who famously texted throughout Obama’s health care speech, knowing the camera was on him, came to the defense of Rep. Joe Wilson as teabaggers screamed their new battle-cry, “Obama lies!” In this clip, “head of the teabaggers” Mark Wilson claims Obama “knows that any ban on federal health benefits for illegal immigrants would never stand up …

Rep. Joe Wilson is the most unpopular guy on both sides of the aisle right now, judging by this story in South Carolina’s The State. Democrats and Republicans alike are denouncing Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting “You lie” at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress, an extraordinary breach of decorum for which the South Carolina Republican swiftly apologized. …

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Seriously. Fantastic speech. But we need to put a WORLD of hurt on GOP South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson for screaming “YOU LIE!” at the President of the United States during a nationally televised speech before Congress. That has never happened, to my memory. Not even when Dubya was announcing the invasion of Iraq. Rep. Joe Wilson 803-939-0041 UPDATE: Sen. …

Uninsured father, filmmaker, and writer Lee Stranahan pleads with the president to ignore the crazies and support the public option in his upcoming national speech on health care reform. Watch this.

Your questions to the president must be presented in song.

Speaking before a meeting of the AFL-CIO, President Obama asked the Republicans where their health care reform plan was.

Keith Olbermann reports that the White House is asking progressives to “be good soldiers” and play along as the public option back-off continues.

JMG reader Tony in the UK tips us to the thoughtful, intelligent way that Sen. Al Franken handled a group of constituents opposed to “ObamaCare.”

Nutcase NY Sen. Ruben Diaz, the minister widely credited with thwarting marriage equality here, has invited Sarah Palin to appear as a witness before a New York Senate Aging Committee hearing on health care reform. The witnesses invited include a host of officials from the medical, political, private insurance, and non-governmental world — each with a clear area of expertise …