Healthcare Reform
Vote for single payer
Only two more days left to make Medicare for All one of Change.org’s top ten priorities.
Change.org says:
Final round voting begins on March 1 and ends on March 12. The 10 most popular ideas will be presented to relevant members of the Obama Administration, and Change.org will subsequently mobilize its full community to support a series [...]
Christmas and New Year’s and Hanukkah
In honor of International Women’s Day, I thought it would be fun to consider what Obama hath wrought. Seeing as how he’s a Superfeminist and all. (The title of this post, for the non-cognoscenti, is an allusion to a sad and frightening piece of performance art by Naomi Wolf.1)
I’ll just quote [...]
A silver lining on healthcare reform?
I was fascinated last night to see that Anthony Weiner and Barney Frank were two of the first out of the gate with statements that Scott Brown’s win meant healthcare reform needed to pause. Now, these guys are not conservatives. Weiner is Mr. Single Payer himself, and Barney ain’t no slouch. I [...]
I’m doing my part to hold down health care costs
I am one with the zeitgeist. Reading Bob Herbert’s column today, I realized that I am already living the cost control provisions in the Senate healthcare bill. Herbert explains that the excise tax in the Senate bill is designed to control costs by limiting people’s access to healthcare. The so-called “Cadillac” plans [...]
The real competition is for campaign contributions
Tip of the hat to lambert for finding this absolutely brilliant essay: Understanding Obamacare. You need to read the whole thing, carefully, but I’m going to quote the first nine paragraphs here. Yes, nine whole paragraphs, because every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coals, man. It’s [...]
Abortion restrictions violate women’s Freedom of Religion
There’s an arresting passage in Riverdaughter’s post about the abortion restrictions in the healthcare bill:
With anti-abortion measures, women are not just subject to the state, they are forced to recognize a religious presence in their lives whether they have faith or not. Men do not need to recognize any faith. They are allowed [...]
Fuckers
I’m putting this up in case anybody wants to say anything about the healthcare anti-woman shit train. Anti-human shit train, really; just a heavier load for the wimmins. Anyway, I’m too goddamn tired to write a post. Whatever. Fuckers.
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Dr. Socks briefly emerges from joyous Christmas preparations to snark on the state of our national discourse
Putting down my hot glue gun just long enough to quote Glenn Greenwald:
Of all the posts I wrote this year, the one that produced the most vociferious email backlash — easily — was this one from August, which examined substantial evidence showing that, contrary to Obama’s occasional public statements in support of a public option, [...]
Kill the Bill
Oh, hey, this is exciting. I was off this afternoon doing reclusive leftist Christmas things, so I missed the big news: Howard Dean says “Kill The Senate Bill.” It’s a worthless motherfucker, says Dr. Dean, and it’s time to put it out of its misery. Hell to the yeah, says me, [...]
White House to Harry Reid: Obama wants his A-minus, damnit! Give Lieberman whatever he wants!
That’s what the headline ought to say. As Obama said to Oprah, in the course of explaining why he gave himself a B+ for his first year in office:
“B-plus because of the things that are undone. Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed, we tip into A-minus.”
It’s all [...]
