George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC News’ “This Week,” interviewed former Republican presidential candidate John McCain Sunday. Stephanopoulos reports: In his first comments on Sarah Palin’s “death panel” claims, John McCain is standing by his former running mate. Sort of… He doesn’t like the phrase “death panels,” but he defended the substance of Palin’s charge, saying [...]
President Obama debunks the myths around health reform, and discusses the public option proposal in which many of them are rooted. But he focuses his address on the stark moral and historical turning point at which we find ourselves. August 22, 2009.
At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.” He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing [...]
This disturbing video was produced by an extremist libertarian organization called Freedom’s Phoenix and another group that goes by 4409. The individuals attended President’s Barack Obama’s townhall event on healthcare in Phoenix Monday carrying assault rifles and handguns. The individual who interviewed one of the armed townhall attendees is Ernest Hancock, an online radio host [...]
President Obama may drop the “public option” of his healthcare plan. CBS News spoke with former Presidential candidate Howard Dean about a “public option” compromise.
At a town hall style meeting in Montana, President Barack Obama says he isn’t trying to vilify insurance companies. He says he’s just trying to stop their practices that hurt people.
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 [...]
What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar. What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating [...]
