Here is the video of Wendell Potter I mentioned last night: Anyone who seriously thinks that the insurance companies are going to play nice and buy the rules is seriously mistaken.

I hate playing the game of “i told ya so”, but it looks like that is what’s going to happen. Last Friday I wrote a post in which I said: I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as […]

Something I have been saying all along was just repeated on Countdown by former health insurance executive Wendell Potter – there is nothing to stop insurance companies from raising rates. The bill backers have been touting out charts and tables derived from the CBO report to highlight savings with the new reform. One thing they […]

President Obama back in 2008: “It’s a choice between having a debate with the other party about who has the most experience in Washington or about who can change Washington,  because that’s a debate that we can win.” When you read that and then see stories like this you really feel like you have been […]

That’s what he told the Washington Post. Obama said the public option “has become a source of ideological contention between the left and right.” But, he added, “I didn’t campaign on the public option.” Now I have to swallow some pride and quote Rep. Joe Wilson – ‘YOU LIE’ Does President Obama really expect to […]

If all these Senators decided not to have multiple big, colorful charts for every speech then we could fund universal health care for the entire nation.

It was originally scheduled for 7pm on Christmas eve, but has been moved up by 11 hours to 8am on Christmas eve. My only guess is that the Republicans gave in, which will certainly cause some outrage from the right.

This is a blow to the health care reform bill: National Nurses United, the nation’s largest registered nurses union and professional organization, declared on Tuesday that the Senate health care bill gives away too much to insurance companies and “fails to meet the test of true health care reform.” “It is tragic to see the […]

If I make only 140% of the FPL and the Medicaid cut off is 133% of the FPL, then wouldn’t it make financial sense to try and make a little less per month and get Medicaid instead of paying for insurance?

Well everything except for minor things like trying to pressure Joe Lieberman into it: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted once more that President Obama did everything he could to get a public option through the Senate, even if the administration never talked to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) about his opposition to the provision. […]