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Despite the hyperbolic cries of "socialism" from misinformed Limbaugh-listening, Fox 'news'-watching ditto heads, this bill is far too friendly to the corporate insurance industry. To really bring health care costs down to where it should be in a truly market-driven economy, we need a robust public option or a Medicare buy-in option. Currently, there is very little competition between health insurance companies, as they have divvied up areas and pretty much charge what they want. This bill... Read Full Story

The issue of corporate “personhood” has come to the fore again, due to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, handed down on January 21st. But even some corporations didn’t like the ruling. Dozens of current and former corporate executives from corporations including Delta, Playboy Enterprises, Ben & Jerry’s, Seagram’s, Hasbro, Delta Airlines, Men’s Wearhouse and Crate & Barrel sent a letter to Congress asking it to immediately pass the Fair Elections... Read Full Story

I’d like to say “Happy New Year,” but it’s not looking very good for so many people. “Hope and change” seems to have dissolved into despair and more of the same. I’ve developed a pretty thick skin, politically speaking, over the years. Idealistic in my youth, as the youth tends to be, I thought our generation (I’m 55) could turn things around. When politician after politician dashed my hopes, I decided it was the system, and things would never change until fundamental changes were made there... Read Full Story

Once again, the corporate interests that have a chokehold on our elected representative bodies have succeeded in derailing any real change for the better. The health care bill is now a bloated corpse – a rotted, stinking shell of what was once originally envisioned. All this thing will succeed in doing is reward the soulless insurance corporations for their intransigence by making them even richer. The Democrats promised that if we would just give them a 60 seat majority in the Senate, a... Read Full Story

The health care bill has been thoroughly polluted with a stifling complexity, a result of all the haggling and trying to please all sides. The best solution is the simplest one, the one that has worked well for decades in every other industrialized democracy in the world (in various forms): single payer. In fact, it has even worked just fine here, in the form of Medicare for seniors. What we need is Medicare for All. I firmly believe it is immoral to deny health care to anyone, and that's... Read Full Story

A letter by a supposed Dr. Stephen E. Fraser, MD to Senator Bayh has been making the rounds as an email since at least August, but is still a hot topic among obsessed Republicans. There is a thorough debunking of these recycled fabrications at the Read,Think,Go blog. Please spread it around to your Repub friends to try to counter the insanity. The health care bill we'll end up with is far from what we really need, which is a single-payer system. But the lies being spread need to be countered... Read Full Story

I don’t envy President Obama. While I can take issue with some of his strategies – I believe we should get out of Afghanistan, for example, and he should stop compromising away real health care reform – I can appreciate just how monumental the task of turning this country around is. Reforming health care? It’s only been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first campaigned in 1912 for it. As Obama told Congress on September 9th of this year, “I may not be the first president to tackle... Read Full Story

By backing an independent conservative in a New York race (23rd Congressional District) over the Republican nominee who was too "liberal" for them, Sarah Palin and the rest of the rabid neo-con pack hoped to really sock it to Obama and show the country that conservatives were on the rebound. Oops! The strategy backfired ! The Democrat was elected to the historically Republican-held seat! Talk about a rift in the party -- the GOP is reeling! By letting the loony neo-con talking heads on Fox... Read Full Story

From Robert Creamer, HuffingtonPost.com: We spend $7,290 per person and end up in 37th place. They spend only $3,601 and they are number one. That's just not right. On the average, Frenchmen live almost three years longer than the average American. That's infuriating. What's more, every legal resident of France is covered by health insurance, and in the U.S. 46 million people are uninsured. When someone in France goes to the hospital, everything except a small co-payment is covered - it's... Read Full Story

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Love political humor? Then you'll love the Humor Times! www.humortimes.com Read Full Story