I was recently reading a piece on the Huffington Post asking the Senate to force those who want to filibuster to actually speak on the floor continuously to halt moving forward with and voting on health care legislation. If you’d like, give a read to Bring Back the Cots! The Filibuster and Health Care Reform. [...]
Now, that’s not to say I’m at all happy with the congressional republicans right now. Too much bluster, voting no all the time, and refusing to budge on anything. And I don’t think most of their ideas will do the job either. Tort reform just isn’t going to do the trick, and cooperatives just wouldn’t [...]
Continue reading about The Republicans Do Have Some Ideas on Health Care
Just reading the title, you might think this would make sense given how much some conservatives love Bible quoting. But just in case you needed a reminder that anything the far right does these days seems to make no sense, this is it. Here’s a link to the article I read on Huffington Post that [...]
Two of the major reforms being proposed in the health care package being debated by congress are the addition of a non-profit public health insurance option (which is NOT single payer and is NOT socialized health care) and mandating that everyone purchase health insurance, with a fine levied on those who fail to do so. [...]
Continue reading about The Public Health Care Option and Mandate to Purchase Health Insurance
Ah, health care. Something we all need at some point in time, yet many can’t afford for one reason or another. It’s expensive after all. There are lots of reasons people like to list in saying we need either universal health care or less expensive health care. A lot of these arguments talk about how [...]
Continue reading about Another Reason We Need Better Health Care In the U.S.