Today the Massachusetts Senate debated Bill H.3452 "An Act implementing the Affordable Care Act and providing further access to affordable health care". Progressive Champion Jamie Eldridge filed an amendment to the bill to allow for a … [Read more...]
Public option is dead — long live the public option?
So says CommonwealthUnbound (email, full article posted at Jamie Eldridge's site):Congressional Republicans saw their sweeping midterm gains as a mandate to roll back the nation’s sweeping new health care reform package. After … [Read more...]
MA Leads! Public Option?
As a member of the middle class, I keep my head down, work and PAY. Pay through the nose, as of late. Should we get on Deval's back and ask for a Public Option? … [Read more...]
Did anyone else call Sen. Brown’s office today?
So far over 800,000 people have called their Senators about including a public option and passing REAL health care reform in the Virtual March that is going on right now. Virtual March for Public Option and Real Health Care Reform Members … [Read more...]
Rep. Stephen Lynch: “Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege”
Massachusetts Congressman -- and former union ironworker -- Stephen Lynch recently sat down with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to talk about the labor movement and the status of vital pro-worker legislation -- like the … [Read more...]
Dennis Kucinich hits the nail on the head
Is it the government of the people or of the corporations, we all know where the GOP lies it's head at night, what about these blue dogs!! … [Read more...]
Protesters Serenade Health Insurance Confab With Ode to Public Option
AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song. AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests … [Read more...]
Why I favor the Public Option, and a plea for a band-aid in the meantime
I favor supporting the Public Option for a couple of reasons, or maybe three: o Realistically, it's all we're going to get this time 'round. o NOT having it would make a total mockery of healthcare reform, imho. … [Read more...]
Rally at John Kerry’s Boston Office
For months, conservative Democrats told us that that the public option could never pass through the Senate, and our President indicated his willingness to give up on the idea. But thanks to a groundswell of popular support, the public … [Read more...]
Dylan Ratigan hosts HCR debate w/Betsy McCaughey, Rep. Weiner
I'm getting used to the tactics McCaughey deploys in situations like this: heavy-duty pretense that she supports health care reform, the Palin-esque answer-a-question-with-an-answer-to-a-question-of-her-liking technique, the ability to … [Read more...]