Tag Archives: health care reform

Stephen Hawking On Health Care Reform

Several days ago Investor’s Business Daily said this about Obama’s health care reform plan: “The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through rationing, and the health consequences thereof, are legendary. The stories of people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror script … People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have …

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Olbermann: Racism In The Town Hall

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Man With Gun Protests Outside Of Obama’s New Hampshire Town Hall Venue

Apparently it was legal for the man to have the gun, but even more disturbing, his sign referenced this Thomas Jefferson quote: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” The president had not yet arrived when news crews discovered the man with the gun, but it’s unclear if he …

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Obama Takes On “Death Panels” Lie

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Town Hall Disruptions For Sen. Specter

Sen. Arlen Specter’s town hall meeting today went as the others have, with one man screaming that “God’s gonna stand before you and he’s gonna judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the Hill!” Later Specter called out a woman in the audience for spreading “vicious, malicious rumors” when she claimed that a 75 year old …

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Gun “Dropped” At Town Hall Meeting

An attendee at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-AZ) town hall meeting dropped a potent symbol of how these events have devolved – his handgun. “Yelling and screaming is counterproductive,” she told the Sierra Vista Herald at a Congress on Your Corner event last week. There, one visitor dropped a gun at the meet n’ greet held in a Douglas Safeway, her …

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Two Minutes Of Crazy

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Maddow: Insurance Profits Skyrocket

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Palin Backtracks On “Death Panels”

AND she disses the town hall mobs. Wait, what?

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White House Responds To Health Care Disinformation Campaign

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Quote Of The Day – Sarah Palin

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” – …

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Maddow On Astroturf Anti-Reform Group Americans For Prosperity

Americans For Prosperity is an astroturf organization, one that poses as being comprised of “grassroots” individuals, but is actually largely funded by corporations opposed to reforms that would hurt their profitability.

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The Guy Leading The Fight Against Health Care Reform Paid $1.7B Fine For Fraud

When Rick Scott was the CEO of Columbia/HCA, then the nation’s largest health care provider, his company had to pay $1.7B, the largest fine in American history, for systematically defrauding the government on Medicare billing. Now Scott is the founder of the Conservatives For Patient Rights, the astroturf group buying airtime to oppose Obama’s health care reform plan. CNN’s Rick …

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More Town Hall Assholism In Michigan

At Rep. John Dingell’s health care reform town hall meeting in Romulus, Michigan last night, hundreds of tea-birthers/birth-baggers screamed and cursed at the legislator, then erupted into cheers when a LaRouche supporter paraded into the room with an Obama=Hitler sign.

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Mayhem At Tampa Town Hall Meeting

In what is becoming a national epidemic of assholism, a health care reform town hall meeting held last night in Tampa by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) erupted into screaming, pushing, and violence. Things get worse as the clip goes on. According to a detailed report on Daily Kos, the protesters were organized by Glenn Beck.

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Maddow On Fake Protesters

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Olbermann On Health Care Reform

On Monday’s show, Keith Olbermann issued another of his classic “special comments,” this one on health care reform and how big pharma owns the votes of many legislators. Watch this.

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Maddow: The Brawliamentary Process

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Obama’s Health Care Press Conference

Here’s last night’s complete health care reform press conference. I have no idea if Obama’s plan will work, not the slightest clue.

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GOP Senator: If You Want Good Insurance, You Just Need To Get A Federal Job

It would be funny if it weren’t so offensive.

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