We’re not screwing around this Halloween. Ghosts, bats, vampires…whatever. If they can make it into a “sexy ______” costume by throwing some teeth or ears or whatever in a bag and putting a picture of a woman in said teeth and ears and a cheap miniskirt on the front, how scary can it really be? On the other hand, try making a health insurance company into a sexy Halloween costume. Can’t be done—those
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So the Republicans have, after months of promising to do so, released their proposed health care reform. A few reviews: HCAN: The GOP Health Care Bill: Insurers Win, You Lose . The Republican bill runs the table on provisions that will increase insurance company profits. Make more money by denying care? Check. Make more money by ending insurance...
Yesterday, millions of unemployed Americans lost their federal health insurance subsidies. Next month, a million or more could lose their unemployment insurance benefits. At a time when long-term joblessness is at record levels, and with more than 15 million Americans unemployed, the safety net of benefits that helps sustain those out of work is...
After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would include a public option in the Senate health care bill, it didn’t take Sen. Joe Lieberman long to threaten to block the bill altogether . In stating his opposition to a public health insurance option, Lieberman sounded familiar notes from reform’s opponents, calling it a “government...
I defy you to read this story and not conclude that our health care system is entirely broken. This family has health insurance. But they’ve lost their house to medical bills, they’ve cashed out their life insurance policies, relatives have helped all they can, and they continue to drown in debt. Now, the mother has decided to give up the fight...
Overview of Job Financial Analyst is a multi-faceted job that involves good accounting, analytical, writing and communication skills. These analysts typically are independent and contracted by a variety of companies such as stock and securities firms, banks, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, ext… Through a series of procedures such...
About every other post we put up here at Main Street makes the case for strong health care reform in one way or another. Today is a day of action for that — Senators will be hearing about the need for health care reform in person and by just about every other means of communication. Here’s the email we sent out with the details: The clock...
House Democrats are slated to caucus today on a phone conference as they pursue efforts to improve the health care reform bill approved by the Senate. As we reported in an earlier post today, one of the most contentious issues is the excise tax on so-called ‘Cadillac’ health insurance plans in the Senate bill. Rather than impacting only...
With time rapidly running out for millions of jobless Americans facing the end of critical benefits programs February 28, the Senate today continued its piecemeal approach to the massive unemployment crisis by passing a rather small tax-break for hiring plan. Urgently needed extensions of the expanded unemployment insurance and COBRA health subsidies...
I know I’ve gotten this question occasionally when I mentioned my opposition to taxation of health care benefits: “Why should we protect Cadillac plans?” To which I say, among other things, “define Cadillac.” And now we can actually define what a Cadillac health care plan is , at least in the eyes of the people who want to tax them: The...
Today’s the kind of day I wish I were in D.C. Thousands of health care reform supporters, progressives, workers and union activists rallied in Washington to conduct a “citizens arrest” of the big insurance companies. The rally, organized by Health Care for America NOW! (HCAN) , began this morning at Dupont Circle followed by...
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Limbaugh: I'll Leave US If Health Care Reform Passes (VIDEO)
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If Democrats didn't have all the incentive they needed to pass health care reform already, then conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh may have provided the final push they needed by vowing to flee the country if the reform bill is passed.
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Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
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Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, took issue with the Teabagger movement's disgusting comparisons of health care reform to Nazi death camps. The 'Baggers responded with typical class: "The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Christian country." "This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish." Disgusting.
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Jon Stewart to Dem Senator: You're a F***ing Idiot (Video)
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On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart annihilated the Democrats in the Senate and House who are simultaneously screwing the pooch on health care reform and bending over for the Republicans on abstinence-only education.
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GOP Rep Wilson Yells Out "Lie" During Obama Health Care Spee
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During President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress tonight regarding health care reform, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled out "you lie" when the President said his health care bill would not mandate coverage for illegal immigrants. WATCH:...
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Health Care Reform isn't the only thing that's Communism...
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Just goes to illustrate how this cheap buzzword and its ilk (Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, et cetera) have throughout the decades been and continue to be hurled like stones and used as little more than a cop-out by shallow and malleable individuals in the absence of any real, substantive dissenting arguments on the most pressing issues of our time.
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