CHARLIE RICH Behind Closed Doors White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett tells CNN: “Fox News Is Biased” Obama The Liar – The Facts Republicans: Higher Premiums and Medicare Cuts Are Not Health Care Reform Obama lies about his support of single payer health care Sens. Coburn and Barrasso Talk about the Democrats’ Health Care Reform Bill Tom Coburn and John Barrasso Talk about Health Care Costs, Transparency, and the Baucus Bill Ne
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If you still don’t think that Obama’s health care reform plan is nothing more than a socialist program designed to empower government to tell us how to live our lives, then maybe you need to read this: Get in shape or pay a price. That’s a message more Americans could hear if health-care reform provisions passed by the Senate finance and health committees become law. By more than doubling the maximum penalties that companies can apply to employees who flunk medical evaluatio
It’s been difficult to avoid, unless you live under a rock somewhere, the ongoing debate regarding health care reform in this country. And while I thought that it might be a mistake, I watched Olbermann’s hour-long “Special Comment” last night, just to hear what he had to say. And I have to say that, while we’re not necessarily on the same page entirely, there is one point that he made that I agree with 100%, and that is that the emotions surrounding this issue are completely and totally justifi
by Source on September 24, 2009in Civil Rights Liberties, Health, Media, Opinion Arthur Salm is an SDNN columnist.Editor: Even though this column by SDNN’s Arthur Salm was published a month ago, we decided to re-post it as the Senate discusses health care reform right now. by Arthur Salm / SDNN / originally posted August 24, 2009“I think health care is a privilege. I wouldn’t call it a right.” – Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)Slavery used to be cool, and that was even before cool was cool. In fact,
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On a related issue: The Senate version of health-care reform includes a tax that would affect the medical device industry. Paulsen and his colleagues in the Minnesota congressional delegation of voiced their opposition to such a tax. The following letter was sent to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and signed by Reps. Paulsen, McCollum and Bachmann. Dear Chairman Baucus: We write to express our concern regarding the tax on medical device manufacturers included in the Senate F
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