Did Obama Secretly Cut a Deal With The Healthcare Industry?

Kucinich: Single Payer Healthcare Only Way to Achieve True Reform

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio is co-sponsor of H.R 676, a single-payer amendment included in the healthcare reform bill. In a recent discussion about the amendment, Kucinich said the month of August should be about redoubling every effort at the state level to show people that only through a single payer system can healthcare costs be [...]

Sotomayor: The Umpires Strike Out!

With Sonia Sotomayor’s swearing in over the weekend as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, legal experts are aggressively debating what was learned from her four days of grueling testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee – and even whether these hearings are instructive or merely Capital Hill’s version of Kabuki Theater.
The nomination of [...]

Wanted: A Joint Public-Option Single-Payer United Front

If you support a healthcare bill with a public option in it, chances are many single-payer advocates don’t trust you. If you supported that same bill in exactly the same way and also advocated leaving in it the language that allows states to create single-payer, those same missing passionate advocates might not line up perfectly [...]

Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Care?

Prescribing Cake to Cure the Health Care Crisis

Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular opinion, never said a solution for the starving masses of revolutionary France in the late 18th century was, “Let them eat cake.” But, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently said something close to it.
At a public meeting, one of Grassley’s constituents asked him, “Why is your insurance so much cheaper than [...]

No Words

For several months now, Republicans have been seeking to find a way to demonize the Obama administration, experimenting with the words “socialist” and “fascist” to see which one seems more powerful at evoking fear.
“Fascist” suggests a one-party government controlled by a small elite, often with close ties to specific corporations. Fascism is often characterized by [...]

Republicans Tread Cautiously in Sotomayor Hearing

In what many Congress-watchers see as Washington’s version of Kabuki Theater, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today began its hearings on the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Latina associate justice of the Supreme Court and only the third woman ever to be nominated to the nation’s highest court.
In a packed hearing [...]