Tag Archives: Politics

When The Going Gets Tough

Rea­li­zing that “we the peo­ple” are just a cog in what is really a fight for the wheel (a fight he doesn’t have the energy for), “Evan Bayh, in remarks published by The India­na­po­lis Star, said he was “con­fi­dent” about his pros­pects for re-election, but dis­cou­ra­ged in his work on Capi­tol Hill by

Post “Fake” Holiday Rant

Accor­ding to the Washing­ton Post, New Bill Would Raise Rates, Says Insu­rance Group).…
“After months of colla­bo­ra­tion on Pre­si­dent Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care sys­tem, the insu­rance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Mon­day with a report war­ning that the typi­cal family pre­mium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than pro­jec­ted.”
Well

Yanking My Chain This Week

Not even a public option here, des­pite from 2000 to 2007, pro­fits at the 10 lar­gest publicly-traded health insu­rance com­pa­nies went up 428 per­cent. CEOs at these com­pa­nies made an ave­rage of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insu­rance pre­miums have more than dou­bled  —  a rate three times fas­ter than wage

Value Voters

Old School Fri­day will be up later this wee­kend. I’m reco­ve­ring from a fall I took when someone, loo­king sus­pi­ciously like Bill O’Reilly, sho­ved me down as I was on my way to lis­ten to Ste­ven Bald­win, my hero, at this afternoon’s Ple­nary ses­sion at the Value Voters Sum­mit. I’m also revie­wing my options for