Tag Archives: health care

Red Red Wine in The Midnight Hour

This isn’t a plea­sant thing to read after drin­king a liter of an almost sweet red wine. A wine the wine-seller con­vin­ced us was meant to taste good with chocolate.

The Bart Stu­pak (D-Mich.) amend­ment to the House health bill, which would bar fede­ral fun­ding for most abor­tions, has pas­sed on a vote of 240  –  194. Democ­rats

Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watz­man, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobb­yists Part­ying and Fun­drai­sing with Con­gress this Week
For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sun­light Foun­da­tion has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Trac­ker and a Visua­li­za­tion of the Health­care Lobb­yist Com­plex
Michael Moore (on Leno last night), on his film,

Mad As Hell Doctors Want the Breaks Applied

Nothing but the best rhe­to­ric will do. I see a Pre­si­dent and Con­gress unwi­lling to risk poli­ti­cal ire (or anger of those with ves­ted inte­rest in the health insu­rance and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries), and do what the right thing for this country by get­ting rid of the free mar­ket health insu­rance industry alto­gether. Giving that

What To Expect As The Insurance Companies Try to Kill Health Reform, Again

OC remin­ded me of this Bill Moyers/Wendall Powell inter­view I saw a cou­ple of weeks ago. Although OC’s inte­rest lies with the medi­cal cost ratio, and bla­ming the peo­ple who own the stock (you, maybe me), my inte­rest lies merely with brin­ging this to your atten­tion, in case you mis­sed it.
Wen­dall Powell, a