WhichMitt.com is a hilarious website put out by the DNC. Take the quiz! Mitt Romney’s constantly changing opinions make him a really easy target. This highlights his contradictions on abortion, the need for an economic stimulus plan during the current recession, health care, and more. Romney’s penchant for flip-flopping makes John Kerry look like an… Continue reading WhichMitt.com
Category: Healthcare
Are We Headed for Single Payer Health Care?
It’s been interesting to listen to the debate rage over what will happen to the individual health insurance mandate in President Obama’s health care reform bill as the issue moves its way up through federal courts. The mandate was recently ruled unconstitutional by one (Bush-appointed) federal judge in Virginia, but was ruled constitutional by a… Continue reading Are We Headed for Single Payer Health Care?
They Were For It Before They Were Against It
During the early 1990s, when President Bill Clinton tasked First Lady Hillary Clinton to lead the effort to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Republicans proposed an alternate idea to Hillary’s proposal, which envisioned a larger role for government in health care than what President Obama signed into law last March. That Republican proposal was… Continue reading They Were For It Before They Were Against It
Ill 9/11 First Responders and Broken U.S. Healthcare
The following interview conducted by Jon Stewart of four 9/11 first responders clearly exemplifies the health care crisis that so many working class Americans currently face or are at risk of facing. At about 3:55 in the clip, the panelists discuss the fact that they lost their health insurance coverage after they had to stop… Continue reading Ill 9/11 First Responders and Broken U.S. Healthcare
Morality and the Health Care Crisis in America
I’ve been meaning to do a post about health care ever since the health care reform bill was debated and passed last year. I’ll approach health care in two posts, first by discussing American health care (pre-reform) and the immorality of the status quo. In my next post, I’ll compare the varying types of universal… Continue reading Morality and the Health Care Crisis in America
The September 23rd Health Care Milestone
September 23rd marked six months since President Barack Obama signed the new health care reform bill into law. The new law contains a plethora of measures that aim to reform and improve the overall quality and availability of health care in America. However, most of the law’s measures did not go into effect immediately upon… Continue reading The September 23rd Health Care Milestone
“The Rage is Not About Health Care”
Frank Rich stated what I was trying to point out in my previous post, “Right-Wing Terrorism,” in a much more eloquent and straightforward fashion than I did. (That’s probably why he’s a NYT columnist and I’m not.) Here are some of the best parts: In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying… Continue reading “The Rage is Not About Health Care”
Response Written Concerning The Current Healthcare Legislation
A couple points of response: If any company takes taxpayer dollars, then by right of being a shareholder, taxpayers should have some say in how the company operates. I completely agree with you regarding the government’s lack of industry expertise, but at the same time if the banking industry is going to benefit from my… Continue reading Response Written Concerning The Current Healthcare Legislation
The Conservatives’ Waterloo
David Frum, President George W. Bush’s former speechwriter and a conservative political pundit posted the following on his website yesterday. I highly recommend the entire article, but here are some key points: Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s… A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches… Continue reading The Conservatives’ Waterloo
If the Democrats Take Back Congress…
Any Fox Network viewer will tell you that the consequences for Democrats taking back the two houses of congress are catastrophic. Partisan fighting would continue, the war on terror would take a massive blow, and the possibility of presidential impeachment would loom. And though each of these concerns are unfounded and almost laughable (do you… Continue reading If the Democrats Take Back Congress…
A Moral Dilemma
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” -FDR With the 2004 presidential election come and gone, many citizens will tune out the various debates that our lawmakers continue to engage in. … Continue reading A Moral Dilemma