Category: Science

Aetna alone is up almost 6% so far today: You can follow it here. Health Care is the top advancing sector so far today, at 1.6%.

Just now on MSNBC, Eliot Spitzer said, “this isn’t health reform, it’s health expansion”. That is exactly right. Reform failed in Congress, but expansion is currently on its way to becoming law. And, as Spitzer says, expansion isn’t a bad thing, but stop trying to sell it as reform. Of course the Democrats will never […]

What does it say for the health care bill when you got Senators now trying to deflect blame to the Obama administration? First up – Russ Feingold: “I’ve been fighting all year for a strong public option to compete with the insurance industry and bring health care spending down.  I continued that fight during recent […]

Once this bill gets out of Congress and President Obama signs it, then I really hope he is ready for a sell job for the rest of his time in office. Let’s examine the facts. The current polling shows the public very turned off by this bill: That alone gives the Republicans an excellent platform […]

No surprises yet. 2 more to go.

Lieberman left town on Friday night before the snow hit and now CSPAN is reporting that he isn’t back yet. The Senate has a big vote coming up in a little over an hour and they need him there for it.

This will be big fuel for the GOP: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) corrected its estimate of the Senate health bill’s costs on Sunday, saying it would reduce deficits slightly less than they’d predicted. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf said that the nonpartisan budget office had […]

I decided to take a cue from Bob’s post and look at the trend of the health insurance stocks over the past month. Here is Aetna, Cigna and Universal. I highlighted some significant dates. An important note – basically every story broke in the evening, after the stock market closed, so the effects wouldn’t take […]

As much as I hate to have to link to the Weekly Standard, they have posted what I was trying to say yesterday – that there is a very uncertain fate of the bill in the House. One thing I never really thought about yesterday was the 60 House liberals who vowed to vote against […]

Politifact has named “death panels” it’s 2009 lie of of the year, and rightfully so. There is not a thing in any of these bills that amount to “death panels”, and I have gone through the bill pretty thoroughly and spent most of the day yesterday going back through while merging in the Senate changes. […]