One of the biggest fears I had with the health care reform bill was insurers coming up with creative accounting methods to circumvent the requirements that they spend 85% of premiums on health care related costs. Now that fear is becoming a reality: Some of the largest U.S. health insurers are changing their accounting practices […]
If Massachusetts race ends up very close, I predict one of the 2 scenarios: Brown wins: Coakley will challenge it. This will spark outrage from the right as they start yelling how the election was stolen from them. Coakley wins: Brown will challenge it. The right will circle around Brown claiming he is standing up […]
Bob Herbert has a great piece today tearing about one of the problems I have with the health care bill – the Cadillac tax. First off is Bob’s explanation of the system: The tax would kick in on plans exceeding $23,000 annually for family coverage and $8,500 for individuals, starting in 2013. In the first […]
Right along party lines as expected, with Jim Bunning not voting. What’s interesting is that since the GOP started praying for Democratic members of the Senate to not show up, a Republican has missed every vote. Irony or sweet revenge? This ends the 2009 legislative year and now we are on to reconciliation to fix […]
This from a new CBS/New York Times poll is stunning: The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector. [SNIP] The national telephone survey, which […]
Wow what a liberal person he is. Here is what he said today during his radio address: The problem with our current system is clear: health care costs are rising rapidly, more than twice as fast as wages. These rising costs are driving up the price of health insurance and making it harder for working […]
Following the Medicare/Medicaid debacle that happened first of this year it seems like Republicans are scrambling to once again distance themselves from Bush and also try and save that some of the vital senior votes this fall. This from Reuters: President George W. Bush’s plan to cut $36 billion from Medicare ran into stiff opposition […]
The New York Times reported today that a “scant” drop in abortions are seen in states where parental notification are required. This is something that people should really take notice on. Now that more states are pushing for legislation that could make it to the Supreme Court and try to get Roe overturned, a study […]
Wal-Mart has launched a full blown damage control strategy to counter bad press. In a New York Times article today, they describe a “war” room which is staffed by past political strategist. BENTONVILLE, Ark., Oct. 26 – Inside a stuffy, windowless room here, veterans of the 2004 Bush and Kerry presidential campaigns sit, stand and […]
In the week prior to Congress’s summer recess, the military spending bill was shoved aside by leader Tom Delay in order to bring more pressing matters to the table. The issue at hand – protecting the gun industry from civil action. Just a few minutes ago, the House voted to pass this bill: Congress gave […]