Health Care

Stocks Soar Near 12,000 While Unemployment Stays Steady Near 10 Percent

01.25.2011

The Dow Jones industrial average is nearing it’s two-year high of 12,000 based on projected job growth. But is this truly indicative of an improving economy when there’s still nearly 10 percent unemployment?

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Oklahoma Passes Strict Abortion Legislation Despite Vetoes

04.28.2010

While Arizona passed the strictest immigration law in the nation, Oklahoma did their own clamping down, as well, enacting some of the country’s toughest abortion laws: Though other states have passed similar measures requiring women to have ultrasounds, Oklahoma’s law goes further, mandating that a doctor or technician set up the monitor so the woman [...]

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Homosexual Hospital Patients Now Finally Treated Like Human Beings

04.15.2010

In a memo to the Department of Health and Human Services, President Obama extended visitation rights to same-sex couples in hospitals. This is huge. There are countless heartbreaking stories of people – like that of Bryan Dickenson and Bill Sugg – banned from the death beds of their beloveds simply because their unions – no [...]

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GOP Not Interested in Governance, Only Politics

04.12.2010

The Republican Party established itself as the “Party of No,” a unified front interested only in voting against whatever Obama and the Democrats proposed, regardless of the content of that legislation.  No to the Stimulus. No to Sotomayor.  No to Healthcare. No to Extending Unemployment Benefits. And it continues. Instead of bothering to announce anything [...]

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Health Care Passes! What Does That Mean Again?

03.21.2010

The House of Representatives passed the Senate Health Care Reform Bill tonight, by a vote of 219-212.  I repeat, HCR passed. After months and months of watching the gnarled, ugly yet effective mess that is the American legislative process, we finally have health care reform despite the gnashing, screaming tantrums and staunch opposition from the [...]

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This Political Theater Lost Me in the 2nd Act

03.12.2010

I almost didn’t comment on my silence here on Agree to Disagree.  I thought maybe I should let my silence speak for itself.  But, what’s a blog when there’s nothing being said? I don’t consider myself jaded.  I just feel rather numb by all the major items in politics right now.  Perhaps I’ve burned myself [...]

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White House Releases the Real ObamaCare

02.22.2010

You can download the PDF of the president’s proposal here. From what I’ve read, it looks like what people expected: a combination of the Senate bill and the House bill.  No public option was added; no more federal insurance exchange; the Nebraska deal eliminated along with the Stupak amendment; and many of the taxes won’t [...]

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House Reps: Pass the Senate Bill

01.22.2010

Paul Krugman: The fact is that the Senate bill is a centrist document, which moderate Republicans should find entirely acceptable. In fact, it’s very similar to the plan Mitt Romney introduced in Massachusetts just a few years ago. Yet it has faced lock-step opposition from the G.O.P., which is determined to prevent Democrats from achieving [...]

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Elect Scott Brown, Magician

01.19.2010

To find out what issues on which the people of Massachusetts elected Scott Brown (R), I turned to the senator-elect’s own website, hoping that it could shed some light on just how he’s going to run Washington better since he’s a Republican and here to solve some challenges that the Democrats are incapable of doing.  [...]

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Senate Already Pessimistic About Health Care

11.08.2009

The worst part of the news that the Senate will have a really tough time passing the health care bill – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid even suggesting that nothing will get done this year – is that the impasse is with Democrats. It’s disheartening and infuriating to see the Democrats not only straddling the [...]

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