A story appearing in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal today saying that fast food giant McDonalds is planning on dropping it’s health care coverage for employees because of requirements tied to the new health care bill: While many restaurants don’t offer health coverage, McDonald’s provides mini-med plans for workers at 10,500 U.S. locations, most […]
The wingers have been going on about a report in USA Today last week showing a record increase in the number of people receiving federal aid: Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 […]
Nate Silver points out: The Record Profits Myth strikes again — I don’t like the insurance companies either; I’d gladly get rid of them and replace them with single payer. But the industry’s profits are low: only about 3.3%. So what happens when insurance companies are forced to spend 85-90% of premiums on health care […]
Earlier today Joe Lieberman said he changed his stance on the Medicare buy-in because liberals like Anthony Weiner liked it. Now Anthony Weiner has responded: This afternoon The New York Times and other news outlets reported that Senator Lieberman was backing away from his own health care proposal, in part because I liked it. If […]
A truly humbling idea: Even more humbling would be thanking the vets with affordable health care coverage. Imagine if the 2,200+ veterans that didn’t have this necessity and died last year received thanks like that. [congress]K000360[/congress]
Here’s his tweet: Yet interesting enough as this appeared on Issa’s Twitter feed, so did this: Let’s think about those 2,200 veterans that died last year from lack of health care coverage and wonder if Issa is thanking them also. [congress]I000056[/congress]
And here is her tweet: Yet Lynn Jenkins also opposed healthcare reform, something that could have helped save the over 2,200 veterans, who have served our great nation only to find a nation in which they couldn’t afford health care coverage and ultimately died from it. [congress]J000290[/congress]
Excuse me for not getting emotional over this: Yet once the service of more than 2,200 veterans was over, our country forgot about them. They died last year from not having health care coverage, and Jim Gerlach opposes any such reform to fix that travesty laid upon our society. [congress]G000549[/congress]
Bill Clinton said this yesterday: “Her opponent excites more Americans … but would in fact deny us universal health-care coverage for the first time,” the former president said. “She represents the solution business.” For the “first time”? Is he saying we already have universal health-care? I heard of spinning, but this takes the cake.