Once again, Obama is found to have broken a key promise, this one that you can keep your current health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill that is being considered currently stalled in The House. Last week President Obama addressed the GOP and said this (video): The last thing I will say,...
Today’s New York Times is reporting that the political action committee and lobbyists for Genentech and its parent company Roche provided statements to both Democrats and Republicans, to be entered into official Congressional Record. According to the Times’ article, Genentech supplied information to one of their lobbyists, Ryan, MacKinnon, Vasapoli & Berzok. The firm...
The Stupak-Pitts amendment is relatively short–only twelve lines, eleven if you discount the section header. In fact, here is the entire text, quoted below: No funds authorized or appropriated by this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) may be used to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the...
I thought I was going to have a meaningful debate today on Twitter. The Stupak amendment to H.R. 3962 is getting a lot of airtime and a common thread is that the amendment restricts women’s rights, which it clearly doesn’t. When I tried to explain to someone (@RayBeckerman) that the amendment was simply intended...
Tort reform is a key aspect that must be included in any health care reform bill. Unfortunately, the latest bill, H.R. 3962 explicitly removes any cap on legal damages or attorney fee’s, as illustrated on page 1432, section 4a and 4b: (4) CONTENTS OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL LIABILITY LAW.—The contents of an alternative liability law...
It’s very telling to see that the AFLCIO has already read all 1990 pages of H.R. 3962, performed conclusive analysis, including cost analysis and coverage analysis, all in the same day the bill was released. They posted this to their twitter account; @AFLCIO. The House health care bill: great on coverage, fairly financed, affordable....
I have a column set up in Tweetdeck, specifically to follow the #HCR hashtag and I continue to be amazed at how some people react when they learn specific politicians are “owned” by lobby groups. For example, today we found out that Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) would vote to block health care reform in...
It's time to recognize that Obama is not the Obamessiah, but just another corruptible politician that must be treated with skepticism. Health care reform isn't what's needed at this point. Government reform is what's needed. Lobbyists have become too powerful and politicians too corrupt. True health care reform is unobtainable...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has a petition to establish health care as a right. The petition does no justice in establishing a valid reason to define health care as a right. Instead, it argues that ‘we’ve been trying to reform health care since 1912, we are already paying for universal health care but don’t...
According to Obama’s play book, Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky, rule number seven states that “a conflict that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Among the reasons is the simple fact that human beings can sustain an interest in a particular subject only over a limited period of time. The concentration, the...