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Depending on the Bankers to Write Financial Regulations (including on pay!): An Avoidable Conflict of Interest involving Complexity and Expertise

euandus wrote 20 hours ago: A package of bills finally approved by Frank’s committee in the US House seeks to regulate the … more →

Tags: Business & Government, corporate capitalism, AiG, Banking regulation, banks too big to fail, Barney Franks, Derivatives, Executive Compensation, financial reform

The Public Option That Isn't Public At All

James Ridgeway wrote 3 days ago: As I predicted some time ago, the interminable smoke and mirrors game going on in Congress will most … more →

Tags: Congress, Congressional Democrats, Congressional Republicans, Health Care, Medicare, Obama Administration, Ben Nelson, Federal Employee Health Benefits program, federal employees insurance

Warning: Government Could Be Dangerous for Your Health

zukunftsaugen wrote 4 days ago: I am advocating for a new law. The new law would require all Senators and Representatives to wear a … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party, Health Care, health-care reform, Single Payer, T.R. Reid, The Healing of America

Remembering Darryl Ringer: Charismatic Farm Activist

David Kingsley wrote 2 weeks ago: This Thanksgiving, I can truly give thanks for having known and worked with farm activist Darryl Rin … more →

Tags: health reform legislation, Personal reiminiscences, cost of health care

How Health Care Reform Hurts Older People

James Ridgeway wrote 2 weeks ago: The health reform legislation before Congress contains a little noticed provision that allows an inc … more →

Tags: Congress, Health Care, health-care reform, Medicare, Social Security

Just leave me and my income alone: American political philosophy?

euandus wrote 2 weeks ago: I recently had an impromptu political conversation with a middle-aged man who told me he is a bus dr … more →

Tags: American Government, Wealth, Redistribution, American Political Philosophy, Self-Reliance, Big Government

Senator Ron Wyden: Public Option Now Meaningless2 comments

James Ridgeway wrote 2 weeks ago: I have recently argued that the public option is now so weak and diluted that it really doesn’ … more →

Tags: Health Care, Congress, public option, Health Care Reform Bill, Ron Wyden, Columbia Journalism Review, Health Care Debate

German National Health Care Started With Bismarck

James Ridgeway wrote 2 weeks ago: According to Alice Cherbonnier, editor of the excellent Baltimore Chronicle, the insurance-based Ger … more →

Tags: Health Care, INTERNATIONAL, health-care reform, Health Care Costs, health care is a human right, german health care

Follow the money: Why we are getting THIS health care reform now

Laura wrote 3 weeks ago: We don’t have a health system in the United States. We have a patchwork of competing commercia … more →

Tags: health-care reform, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health-Care Economics, patent cliff

Let Them Eat Zoloft

James Ridgeway wrote 3 weeks ago: As the Senate takes up health care reform, we’re sure to be treated to yet more scenes of our electe … more →

Tags: Congressional Democrats, Corporations, Drug industry, financial crisis / recession, Health Care, Jobs, Employment, Unemployment, closing, eminent domain, health-care reform

Senator Howdy

U DON'T SAY wrote 3 weeks ago: political cartoons Seed NewsvineSubscribe in a reader … more →

Tags: Government, Humor, Senate, cartoons, Politics, military industrial complex, religious fundamentalist & senator, Howdy Doody, Phineas T. Bluster

For What? 2 comments

zukunftsaugen wrote 3 weeks ago: A continuing question in my mind is why Americans are not outraged with the current health care deli … more →

Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Single Payer, Health Care, health-care reform, Aetna, Cigna

Goldman Sachs Tells How to Cash in on Health Care Reform

James Ridgeway wrote 4 weeks ago: First we bailed out the teetering Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs; then we had to watch this behemot … more →

Tags: Health Care, Lobbying, Wall Street / financial industry, Goldman Sachs, health-care reform, Insurance Stocks

Veterans Die from Lack of Health Insurance

James Ridgeway wrote 1 month ago: From the web site of Physicians for a National Health Plan comes this summary of a new study on Amer … more →

Tags: Health Care, Veterans, health-care reform, military, va

House Passes Health Care Bill2 comments

Ryan Mason wrote 1 month ago: A strong, necessary step forward.  Now, onto the Senate, which always proves to be a tougher forum.  … more →

Tags: Politics, Health Care, Senate, house, Health Care Bill

Democrats Won a Health Care Battle---But Are Losing the War4 comments

James Ridgeway wrote 1 month ago: On the House floor Saturday night, Nancy Pelosi managed to muster enough votes to pass a health refo … more →

Tags: Bush administration, Congress, Congressional Democrats, Congressional Republicans, Drug industry, Economy, financial crisis / recession, Health Care, Jobs, Employment, Unemployment

Republicans Think We All Have Munchausen Syndrome: GOP Health Care and the Myth of "Overuse"1 comment

James Ridgeway wrote 1 month ago: Earlier today I wrote about the Republicans’ claim that most Americans are “over-insured … more →

Tags: Congressional Democrats, Congressional Republicans, Drug industry, Health Care, George Bernard Shaw, GOP, health-care reform, overuse, Republican Health Care

GOP to America: Get Real, You Are "Over-Insured''

James Ridgeway wrote 1 month ago: Going into the House health care debate and vote tomorrow, it pays to keep in mind what the Republic … more →

Tags: Bush administration, Congress, Congressional Republicans, Health Care, Dick Armey, GOP, health-care reform, House Republicans, Pete Hoekstra

Health Isurance Companies, Today's Mafia

lookfortruth wrote 1 month ago: Who Will They Take Out Today? … more →

Tags: health-care reform, Health Insurance Companies, public option


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