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Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann says that if the president’s health care reform bill passes, Americans should not pay their taxes. “But mark my words, the American people aren’t gonna take this lying down,” Bachmann later said. “We aren’t gonna play their game, we’re not gonna pay their taxes. They want us to pay for this? Because we don’t have …

Last year the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Assurant Health must pay their customer Jerome Mitchell a settlement of $10M for wrongly canceling his coverage because he’d become HIV-positive. An investigation into Assurant’s inner workings has revealed an extensive campaign to find any reason to cancel the insurance of others with HIV. Previously undisclosed records from Mitchell’s …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that the final version of the health care reform bill that she is sending to the Senate will not include the public option. “We’re talking about something that is not going to be part of the legislation,” Pelosi said, noting “with sadness” that the public insurance option won’t be part of legislation. “I’m quite …

Today a group of “major businesses” including health insurance companies is launching a nationwide ad campaign in opposition to the health care reform bill. The campaign will target moderate and conservative Democrats in their home markets after a few days on national cable outlets. Health insurance companies, excoriated by Obama over a recent spate of double-digit premium hikes, are helping …

It’s definitely not the bill we wanted, but this morning the Senate voted 60-39 to approve its version of health care reform. The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama. The …

Embiggen the image for a breakdown of the positive changes some claim will result from the pending health care reform bill. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Working overnight in the blizzard, today Senate Democrats announced that they have the necessary 60 votes to approve the health care reform bill. The news came this morning after Sen. Bill Nelson (D-NE) agreed to vote for cloture. “Change is never easy, but change is what’s necessary in America,” Mr. Nelson said at a morning news conference. “And that’s why …

Last night Keith Olbmann issued one of his classic special comments/rants on the health care reform morass in the Senate. WATCH THIS!

Yesterday the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee approved a bill authorizing benefits for the partners of federal employees. The bill will now go to the full Senate. The benefits would include: health care, retirement and disability plans, family, medical and emergency leave, group life insurance, long-term care insurance and access to worker’s comp. Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) …

“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. And, honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House and start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill. The American people don’t care how we …

No American will be ever be “born free” again if those dirty communists in Congress try to expand the availability of health care.

Another roundhouse from Sen. Joe Lieberman. In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form. The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out …

Insurance companies have been busted paying Facebook members in virtual currency in return for sending their Congress members an email opposing health care reform. Facebook users play a social game, like “FarmVille” or “Friends For Sale.” They get addicted to it. Eager to accelerate their progress inside the game, the gamers buy “virtual goods” such as a machine gun for …

The above title is taken directly from Grayson’s office YouTube channel. Hah.

The Democratic National Committee has just posted this health care reform clip on President Obama’s official YouTube channel. I like that it spins the GOP’s own “think of the children!” meme right back at them.

A federal judge has ordered the government to compensate a couple who were denied employee partner health benefits because they are gay. U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt deemed the denial of healthcare and other benefits to the spouse of federal public defender Brad Levenson to be a violation of the Constitution’s guarantee of due process and …