Tag Archives: insurance

Sen. Coburn: If You’re Sick, Tough Luck

Wingnut Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) tells a woman that she shouldn’t expect help from the government just because her husband has a traumatic brain injury. “The idea that the government is a solution to our problems in inaccurate.”

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McCain: Obama Must Drop Public Option

McCain: “There was a provision in the bill that talks about a board that would decide what are the most effective measures to provide health care for people, okay? So what does that lead to? Doesn’t that lead to a possibility of rationing?”

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Ron Paul On Health Care Reform

Ron Paul thinks the government has no place interfering in health care. He also says that “some people aren’t necessarily in need” of insurance. Bonus wingnut points for bringing up immigrants.

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Obama: No Insurance For Illegals

Speaking on a radio show today, President Obama told a caller that his health care reform plan will not offer coverage to illegal immigrants, but they will continue to be treated at ERs as per law.

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Dems To GOP: We’re Doing Health Care Reform With Or Without You

Democrats seem ready to give up on trying to achieve a bipartisan consensus on health care reform and say they are ready to wield their Congressional majorities to push the bill through on their own. Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans’ purposely strident tone against health care legislation during …

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Is The Public Option Back On?

On Sunday word rocketed around the intertubes that the Obama administration was dropping the “public option” portion of the health care reform plan – government-sponsored insurance for the poor or uninsurable. The word came from Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who now says she “misspoke.” Sounds like the outrage from progressives caused some furious backtracking, eh? (Via – AmericaBlog)

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New Wingnut Hero Katy Abram

Town hall protester Katy Abram has become a wingnut media darling after going off on Sen. Arlen Specter last week. Last night Sean Hannity hosted Abrams where she railed against the government and complained that people don’t like her.

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Obama Caving On Health Care Reform

What many progressives consider to be the most vital plank of the Obama administration’s health care reform plan, publicly funded health insurance, appears to be dead. Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system. …

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Maddow: Racist Nightmare On K Street

Rachel Maddow tips us to ResistNet.com, a racist GOP-astroturf group that is organizing against health care reform.

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Whole Foods CEO: People Have No Intrinsic Right To Health Care

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has raised the ire of many of his most loyal customers by penning an anti-health care reform editorial in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, in which he lovingly quotes Margaret Thatcher and says that there is no “intrinsic right to health care.” Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to …

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Open Thread Thursday

So what’s your health insurance situation?

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Obama Takes On “Death Panels” Lie

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Nomenclature

When two men get married and one takes the other’s last name (rather than creating one of those hyphenated thingies), how do you refer to his former last name? JMG reader Vincent in Connecticut recently married and was amused that his partner’s insurance form asked him for his “maiden name.” Vincent says his partner’s employer is open to suggestions. “Birth …

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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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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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Maddow On Fake Protesters

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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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Ranked: Safest Cities For Drivers

Allstate has released their annual list of the safest cities for drivers. The ranking is based on the average number of years between collisions for a driver in that town. Unsurprisingly, smaller cities tend to dominate the top of the chart. The lower chart ranks the top ten safest cities with a population over one million. Phoenix is the safest …

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